sketches ep4 | marker drawings | new illustration: sketch vs final💜 (Patreon)

Hi friends! I don’t know why is that but I feel like I haven’t been posting here in ages??!

Today I want to show you a few sketchbook pages I did over the past few days, my attempt at coloring blueberries and a new illustration.

Some of these sketches were created from the place of inspiration, while others were... umm, forced.

Let’s take a look!

⬆️THIS ONE is my favorite sketchbook spread I’ve made in a while! I had tons of fun making it. It started innocently, just by drawing one single pumpkin, then I figured I can draw another one and another and the rest is the history… :D It’s simple and fun! I’m really tempted to make such spread in colors!!

⬆️ This page is the forced one. Which you can probably tell. I mean, I knew I need to practice drawing these berries and leaves because the gap between my expectations and actual skills was too big. I didn’t felt like practicing that day but forced myself anyway. I’m kinda glad I did, but still... I’m not proud of these drawings!

⬆️ Creativity comes in waves. The next day I just started sketching knowing I’d need to draw some berries but it’s totally up to me which ones. It felt so nice to draw blueberries for the 10000th time.

Speaking of blueberries.... (+ an unfinished drawing of the buttercup :D)

It’s been a while since the last time I made an illustration of them in colors! I must admit I was nervous to color this sketch. That’s because I was worried it’d look worse than my older blueberries illustrations and my ego would be hurt, lol.

I like how it turned out tho! It was also the first time in a while when I didn't use lime green color in the illustration!

It’s time for sketch vs final comparison of my newest drawing! I have about million more important/urgent things to do but I just felt like finishing this illustration I started months ago. This is my farewell to summer!

I drew these chicories on the right side a few months ago and just left this page like this, lol. It deserved to be finished!

As you can see, sometimes, when making composition like this one, I add some elements later in the process!

Hope you enjoyed this! ♡

Marta