Floral Portrait WIP 🌻 + visual breakdown with drawing tips! ✏️✨
Added 2021-11-15 16:38:46 +0000 UTCHappy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a restful weekend :) 🧡
Yesterday I started working on coloring this floral portrait and I wanted to show you the progress so far along with a little visual breakdown of the ideation process! 🥰
So here’s a little outline of the thought process I have while I’m working :) Whenever I work on a drawing, I like to have one main reference of a real person to base my drawing on for the pose, hair, skin tone etc; and sometimes I also like to have an artwork nearby to gather inspiration for colors or lighting schemes! In this case, I’m feeling really inspired by the colors and rim light in one of @bellhenge’s paintings 😌 I’m not sure if they have an Instagram, but you can find them on Twitter! 🧡
A fun exercise to practice if you want to experiment with creating a design concept is to find three reference photos to use for inspiration: one photo of a real person to base your pose on, then find an artwork to inspire a few colors in your drawing or the lighting concept, and then find a reference of some kind of object to add into the drawing (in this case I’m using flowers!) 🌻
It’s a really fun exercise to do if you want to practice combining references 🥰 The key is to gather inspiration from the images rather than copy them, so just having them up on your computer to glance at occasionally while you work! ✏️
Anywho I’ve never done a visual breakdown like this before but let me know if you’d like to see more of these in the future! 🙈 And stay tuned for another post I’ll be sharing soon about what I’m working on this week for you guys ✏️✨
Love,
Lydia 💌
Comments
This is so great - would definitely love to see more of these thought process nuggets going forward, they do help a lot to gain better understanding of how to improve your art in small but impactful ways! 😍
Kimberley
2021-11-16 12:23:07 +0000 UTClove this tip with the three references! Really helpful! Thank you - and a wonderful artwork!!!
liliyth
2021-11-16 08:47:16 +0000 UTCAww thanks Salomon! 🥰😍🧡
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-16 04:57:20 +0000 UTCThank you!! I’m happy you like it! 🥰🧡
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-16 04:57:04 +0000 UTCYayy I’m so glad!! 🥰 I want to do more breakdowns like this in the future with more detail too! ✨
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-16 04:56:45 +0000 UTCYes!! 😍 It’s a nice exercise if you’re ever in an art block too in my opinion! 🧡
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-16 04:56:11 +0000 UTCSo lovely 😍😍😍🥰🔥🙌
salomon varela
2021-11-16 04:24:55 +0000 UTCsuch a good tip for practicing!
2021-11-16 02:04:25 +0000 UTCThese are so good!!! Love the tips you give in this post! 🖤
Dead Wolve
2021-11-16 01:18:50 +0000 UTCSounds like a fun exercise! I’ll have to give it a try 😁
Nicole
2021-11-15 22:19:28 +0000 UTCAww thanks Amber!! 😄🧡
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-15 18:29:09 +0000 UTCThanks Evan!! So happy you found it insightful! 🥰
Lydia Elaine
2021-11-15 18:28:43 +0000 UTComg this is gorgeous!!!!!
Amber
2021-11-15 17:10:00 +0000 UTCVery insightful tip 💜 I’ve used multiple references for drawing, but not for color. I’m looking forward to trying that. Thanks Lydia
Evan Burse
2021-11-15 17:02:59 +0000 UTC
