Children's Illustration - December 2018

Portrait of a Caroler

These drawings were made as an exercise to see how I would approach the illustration style of a storybook. It's one of my wishes to illustrate one some day and I had some free time before Christmas to play around with some watercolor and colored pencil. 

These were made mostly from imagination, but I did use some reference for the iceskating one and the four carolers, I did have some trouble with the latter one as I feel the color cheme could have been different or narrowed down to a smaller palette with one or two tones. As you can see, I still have a fondness for lettering and doodling words around my drawings.

Iceskating

Warming Up

Carols

Iceskater, Happy New Year

More info in the last part of this video from my Youtube channel.

Thank you for viewing,

Meruna.

Colored Pencil Portfolio

Selected colored pencil drawings from 2018.

Inktober 2018

So I did it! 31 drawings in 31 days - my first Inktober is official done and complete! 

In the beginning it was hard to find a direction, but using the prompt list - each day had a word assigned to it - really helped in easing my process. What really helped was to make tiny thumbnail sketches, and then sketching with a pencil on A4 or A5 size paper. The inking was done mostly with liners and marker, didn't use any real ink, and most of them got a digital background or even coloring - cause I just couldn't resist it! 

Some of them are good, some not so much, but I learned something from each one. Enough words, feel free to take a look below ↓↓↓

Thank you for looking,

Meruna.