full drawing process of peonies 💖 | sketching and coloring | 45 minutes long | instrumental music | + color palette🎨 (Patreon)

Hi!

The title of the overthinker of the month goes to… yours truly! I mean, to me. It goes to me.

I edited this video more than a month ago and just let it sit on my hard drive for all this time!

Actually I went to the point where thought I’d never share it anyway.

Why?

Because it’s not perfect or at least it didn’t turned out as I imagined.

The light changes in this video (it gets a bit dark for a few minutes but you can still clearly see what I’m doing. It just doesn’t look perfect and my hand casts shadows, but I promise, it’s like this only in a small fraction of the video)

Plus it’s quite a long one and I wanted to record a voiceover to it, not because I’d have anything particularly interesting to say, just to make it more watchable (is that even a word?) I guess?

But seriously, what’s wrong with a long video with just the music in the background? (yes, I’m thinking out loud)

Also got quite attached to the idea of posting “themed” videos, so I’d need to post a hydrangea drawing process and I haven’t record any due to the constantly clouded sky.

Hello, I'm calling the art police! Why am I making up all these weird rules??

Anyway! About the video:

It’s a chill, slow video. The drawing process is almost real-time.

I only edited out some moments where I color one area in one color - where basically not much is happening.

Other than that, it’s a very organic, real, raw drawing process.

The one where I change colors and mediums a lot and draw over the same area several times.

While drawing these peonies, I didn’t use any reference photo, I didn’t sketch beforehand. I was drawing without any plan. You might noticed some peony sketches on my desk but these were more of an emotional support (lol) than the actual reference.

The video has an instrumental music on the background. Feel free to watch it on mute if you prefer!

Here's the list of colors I used for this illustration:

I could easily use maybe half of them but I was picking them on the go. Usually I choose colors before starting an illustration but this time I wanted to challenge myself!

Okay, but what about being an overthinker?

Well, it wasn’t only about whether I should post this video or not.

The fact that I didn’t post it in January, made me spiraling over posting other things.

Like, how can I post other rewards or post something more casual, like sketchbook stuff, while I haven’t posted a video yet?!!

Omg, this is so embarrassing to say, but it is what it is.

I can only apologize for keeping you waiting for rewards and updates!

I’ll catch up on that these next 1-3 days and then keep going with the next theme.

It feels so nice to get out of my head.

I hope you’ll enjoy this video!

If you have any questions about my drawing process, like for example, why I did X or how I made Y, what do I think about Z, feel free to ask!

Much love

Marta