It may be of interest to you peeps, to know how I work on an illustration. Of course, if you're not interested you can just view the first, finished image, and then close the slideshow.
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the image:
et voila! The finished art
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- rough pencil sketch
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- Clean up pencilling
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- Add flesh colours
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- Add overall monotone colour
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- Start painting characters
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- Elephant and ostrich
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- Add the zebra getting an overall general colour tone
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- Include the lion
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- adding monkey
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- and hippo
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- not forgetting the giraffe
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- ..getting there
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- try a darker background see how characters stand out
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- Add food after all it is a picnic
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- more food before they start to eat me
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- and more
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- Could do with some scenery
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- I should start adding some dimension
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- By creating some dark and light shading
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- It gives more realism to the characters
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- adding dark
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- adding light, blending the tones in
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- soon be finished
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- a few final touches
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- et voila! The finished art
If you'd like to see more of how I work and how you can develop your own drawing skills, check out my Creative Cartoon Club . I run 'Can't Draw, Can Draw!' workshops and progressive workshops for those who want to develop their art, but don't know how.
PS My workshops are all great fun. Nobody is made to feel bad about their work, only good.
Miko, I absolutely love your drawing style! I love seeing now others work too. I have a similar process to yours, so now I feel better for some reason ha. You are so talented! You're generous to show us how you work.
Hi Leslie and how wonderfully kind you are. Yes its important looking at others work, one can learn a great deal. In my workshops for the new creative I always maintain actual copying is good, as longs as its not reproduced as their own!! But this is how we learn to talk, mimicking, copying. Then patiently work at developing ones own personal creativity. I'm glad we share the same method. From pencil to finished art, its the only way I know ;-). As you know we have to work very hard at talent and as far as generous, not really, its important for me to get feed back. Keep in touch, I'd like to see your work if I may.