Drawing Your Monthly Favourites: An Illustration Exercise

Drawing Your Monthly Favourites: An Illustration Exercise
English | 32m | Video: 720p

Learn how to draw your own monthly favourites illustration and document your various memories and activities. The design is easy to customise, you can include anything you like, events, trips you’ve taken, clothes, food, a new purchase, tv shows or movies you've watched. . . the idea is to bring together a group of elements that really celebrates that month and the things you enjoyed. They can be milestones like a wedding or a graduation or they can be very simple like a new scarf you bought or a recipe you tried for the first time. Sometimes it’s so easy to forget all the little things that we enjoyed in the moment and this is a visual way of recording these small parts of our lives. I’ve been creating my own monthly favourites as a personal project this year and it’s great to be able to look back on them afterwards.

In this class I’m going to be taking you through my process for creating the illustration. Starting with brainstorming ideas, coming up with the objects to draw and how I approach representing more complex themes. I’ll also talk about layout and the design of the illustration and then we’ll move on to sketching, inking and giving the illustration a wash of color with watercolors. I’ll share my decision making process and give you some, hopefully helpful, tips and tricks along the way. This class is suitable for complete beginners, as well as those of you how may have some experience but are looking for some new ideas.

What You Will Learn

I’ll be walking you through every step of the process and sharing: