sketchbook ep 18 | FLOWERS! 🌼🌺✨ | May’s theme announcement 💘✏️ (Patreon)

Hi!!

Today I have a few sketchbook spreads to share!

Recently I've been practicing drawing flowers.

One flower in particular… a peony!

Peonies are May’s theme!!

Oh my, these flowers are beautiful and quite intimidating to draw. I still need more practice (so get ready to see more peony sketches and illustrations soon!!) but I’m getting better at it!

I think my new sketchbook with white paper MIGHT unlocked something within me! (creatively) but that’s another topic.

Now, let’s take a look at my recent sketches!

First spread. I wasn’t feeling very confident while drawing these.

Using blue pencil first helped A LOT.

Who said I can’t make an initial sketch for a pencil sketch?!

The best part of the blue sketch is that sometimes I can just ignore it and draw things differently :D

I’m getting more comfortable!

This one was quite loosely based on a picture I took a while ago.

If you’ve been wondering – yes, I take pictures of each flower I ever receive.

Who knows when or if I’ll draw it in the future! Here I used only a flower (not leaves)as a reference.

Buttercups sneaked in!

 I saw so many of them blooming in the local park that I just couldn’t resist sketching them.

When I was on the phone I started mindlessly coloring these with my rainbow pencil (the pencil I introduced in the previous post :D).

This messy effect looks kinda nice?!

And the peony again!

This time I felt much more confident with my skills and I hope it shows.

The spread from this morning. Just practicing.

I don’t really like how the bud turned out but it’s ok, I’ll try drawing one again tomorrow!

and the page from my other sketchbook! a mix of forget-me-nots, buttercups, peonies and dandelion doodles.

PS. April’s digital rewards are coming this week!! I’ll share phone wallpapers tomorrow. I really didn’t wanted to post before catching up on these first BUT I realize I’d end up not posting for about 1/3 of the month, sooo what’s the point?

PS 2. I hope you’re as excited about this theme as I am!

Oh, I can’t wait to explore this theme further and create rewards and posts for you!

Love,

Marta