Thirty Days of Drawing — Day Three

I'm still very slowly working through a Thirty Days of Drawing. 😅 I've been enjoying getting back into my artistic side, and even better: it's been encouraging my son to draw a lot more often too.

This drawing was completed a few days ago, but I hadn't shared it yet due to my Steam NextFest posts and I really don't like posting more than once a day. So here I am, sharing it now! 😁

The prompts for this third drawing were: Moth, Sweet... and my first thought was a moth enjoying a delicious lollipop. And so here we are!

I started out with a basic moth-shape in the centre of the page.

Then worked on where I would like the lollipop. The lollipop is more of an oval than a circle, which was not my first intention. But due to paper size and an unwillingness to erase my moth and restart it, I just dealt with a non-circular lollipop. xD

Next I fluffed up my moth a bit. He's not a smooth, sleek butterfly after all — he's a moth!

And then I worked out what wing pattern I would like him to have.

Once all that was done and I was happy with the initial sketch, I started inking him in.

I also decided at this point that my original wing design was a bit too 'busy' and decided to tone it down a bit.

At this stage I moaned and groaned to myself, once more wishing that I bought a couple of fineliners in different thicknesses. I'm totally going to get a slightly thicker one for when I need to fill in. It's so tiresome doing it with such a fine pen.

I'm also going to get a super fine pen for shading purposes.

But that's not here or now. So I'll keep whinging about my lack of thick pen. xD

And ta-da! The sweet-enjoying moth is complete. 😊

The next prompts I'll be working on are: Woodland Paths and Machine.... and I'm really not quite sure what I'm going to do with that. I can see the woodland paths clearly in my mind, but a machine?

Perhaps a random slot machine in the middle of the woods? A confused robot roaming the paths? I guess we'll find out in coming days when the mood and inspiration strike!

 

Until next time!! 😊🦋✨

 

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_{All images in this post are courtesy of me, @kaelci.}