How I Drew These Pigeon Friends 💖 A New Digital Art Project Pack (Patreon)

Hello Bluebells 🌷

Popping into your inbox again to share a cute new drawing with you and a downloadable project pack for to go with it!

I drew this one based on the results of my poll last week asking for your input about what I should draw next - so thank you to everyone who voted and helped me decide 🥰

So I drew these two cuties and I love them:

You can download all of the assets for this illustration below, and either use them as a tool to see how I construct my art, or use them as a kit to recreate this artwork on your own. Just keep in mind that any recreations can be for personal use only.

You'll find in this post:

A timelapse video of the art process (above)

A simple breakdown of the process in images (below)

A working digital file with named layers (attached)

A colour palette as a .jpg and .swatches file (attached)

The original sketch as a .png (attached)

It took me a little while to decide on what the interaction between these two pigeons would be, so you'll see in the timelapse above that I thought about having them share a scarf or a shawl, but ended up deciding to have one with their wing wrapped around the other.

I really like the colours on this one! I was going to have a few different colours for the flowers but actually I really liked them all being different values of the same hue instead so I went with that 🌷

So here are the main steps of my process (roughly in the right order) broken down into images.

First, I drew a sketch:

Then I coloured in all of the main elements, using the sketch as a reference:

Then I added some details:

And finally some texture on everything (including the background):

This was quite a simple illustration - you'll be able to see how the layers are broken down in the .psd file below - there are really just a handful of layers for the base colours and then clipping mask layers attached to them for texture and details.

These are the brushes I used (from my brush packs):

Soft Canvas Pencil - for colouring the base shapes and drawing the details

Textured Pencil (regular version and light version) - for adding texture to everything

And here is the colour palette (also attached below):

Enjoy!

💖 Mimi