The illustration challenge’s theme for Week 27 is SNOW. All my travel plans never include snow. My first time in NYC one fine October? Lo and behold. A snowstorm! Everywhere we went, it was all people were chatting abo
ut, “Can you believe this? It’s snowing in October!!!”
Consider this a Week 4: SELFIE theme drawing as well. No one warned me of slush and sleet either.
Using ink blocks and colored pencils, thought I’d try a couple of new things for this sketch:
First, movement. I’m not good with drawing people moving so it took me an hour trying to plot on paper the position of the falling girl (hands don’t always follow what’s in my head, unfortunately).
Second, snow. I never ever drew snow as I had zero experience with it (the snowstorm completely made up for that, thank you.).
Next, light lines. I usually line EVERYTHING with either a black liner or a pencil. For the clouds, thought I’d make them look lighter by using a pale blue pencil instead.
Then, borders. Usually, my drawing stretches all the way ’til the edges. Thought I’d try a different background style for a change.
Again, it’s not exactly what I had in mind but I think I choose to be satisfied with how it turned out. Sorry, no process/step-by-step photos as I did this under dining lamp- yellow lighting after dinner.
🙂