Click or tap to go through the different stages/parts. I've been trying to draw from a reference more often, kind of challenging myself to do it on a regular basis, and this was the first drawing of that challenge. So here are some cinnamon rolls! Look at the smols! I love them! They will go through so much pain! :D (This is Navia and Rowan, I kind of mentioned them in my Be Like You part for context, also Bel Air. Still working through some of the designs.) stages: 1: reference photo. 2: sketch based off the reference photo (not traced! Don't trace your art! Just put grids over things and base your positions on the grid and shapes and yeah) 3. lineart 4. base colors (and a few textures) 5. shading 6. basic bg 7. added a lens blur to the bg and a couple more slight overall shading layers, and that's the final picture!
Soli Deo Gloria Reference image found on pexels, a free/public domain stock image site. Art by me in Medibang Paint, a free drawing program. Palettes for base colors (in that fourth picture, I didn't follow them strictly but I did use them) were generated with coolors.co No music but if I could I would probably add Sleeping at Last's cover of the Safety Dance, so go listen to that as you click through this. (Seriously, it's so good and sweet and soft and I heard it before I heard the original song and then I heard the original and was like,, ok,, this is considerably less chill)
