Mimi's Illustration Club June - Third Activity! (Patreon)

Hello my lovely flowers!

I've drawn my final illustration for this month's illustration club and I wanted to show you - thank you for helping me pick which composition to draw! 

As you know, the prompt for this month is 'Summer In The Forest' and I decided to draw the river scene with the bunny relaxing under an umbrella.

So far in the club this month we’ve filled a sketchbook page with ideas relating to the prompt, then we explored some composition sketches from those ideas, and now we can take one of those composition ideas and create a final illustration from it.

If you skipped the first activities and came straight to drawing a final illustration that's totally fine!

You can use any medium you like to create your final illustration. The aim of this activity (and the whole club) is to just explore the creative process and enjoy practising our art skills together, so if you can achieve those two things then whatever you create is a success!

So I’ll show you what I created for this activity based on a sketch from activity 2:

This is my final illustration for 'Summer In The Forest' and I think it turned out quite sweet! I could have characterised the bunny more but I don't mind leaving them simple for this one.

So here's a little breakdown of my illustration process as well as the basic colour palette that I used in case you'd like to use that for your own art (you can download it below).

My process for this illustration went a little something like this:

First I drew a digital sketch based on the pencil sketch that I drew in activity 2, though I decided to change it to a circle frame rather than square so that it would fit nicely on my Instagram profile 😄

Then I made that sketch layer about 30% opacity and 'multiply' blend mode so that I would be able to easily see through it onto layers below

I coloured in all of the elements of my illustration, using the sketch layer as a reference for as long as I needed it

Then I drew in extra details like little flowers and texture for the trees

After that I added shading and texture using my texture brushes. I add my shading across a few layers - some are broad and soft, and some are more defined shading

And that's about it!

Now it's your turn (yay!) - take one of the composition sketches that you drew in activity 2 and create a final illustration from it (if you haven't already). Or if you feel like it you can do a completely new idea!

These activities pretty much replicate my normal art process when I'm faced with a new prompt - I brainstorm ideas, doodle down a few sketches to explore some compositions, and then illustrate my final piece.

If you do draw a final illustration with the prompt this month then feel free to share it with us over on Discord in the #final-illustrations channel. Everyone is welcome, and you can share what you've created for any of the activities at any time!

I'm really looking forward to seeing how your illustrations turn out ❤