Wednesday WrapUp 3×3

Welcome!

On most Wednesdays, check this blog for a strategy, process, or reflection for illustration with the iPad app ProCreate. This Wednesday Wrap Up shares a review of the first and second week of  Shannon Mcnab’s 3×3 Sketch-Design-Repeat Challenge.

My Process

For each of the three weekly prompts, I research and bookmark resources to help me decide on a palette, style, and possible motifs for the challenge. I’m extending the challenge for myself to create the hero and secondary/blenders to accompany it. So I’m always thinking about the main and coordinating patterns. I wrote about this in my daily and earlier WrapUp.

When I finally decide on the style and palette, I choose a brush set in Procreate to fit the plan and begin the sketching, coloring, shading, highlighting, texturizing, etc. various motifs. Once I have the motifs, I create the hero illustration that tells the story for which the pattern and coordinating patterns will fulfill.

One of the plan’s possible illustration is a scientific poster for this week’s theme, Local Flora. I’ve chosen the sunflower, arrowleaf balsamroot that grows in our area as large, bright yellow sunflowers from May to July. I have plenty of my own photos and did the research to discover its special aspects, including the sunflower bee that lives exclusively off the asteraceae sunflowers.

With that information, I created my hero illustration for this week’s prompt. I chose Lisa Glanz’s AquaReal2 watercolor for the coloring and Lisa Bardot’s rough day liner from her Texturrific brush set for the outline and details.

I also made a few patterns from the motifs in the poster, but I have revisions to do yet on those for tomorrow.

Review

So far, the prompts for the challenge are Out on Safari and Local Flora. Read my other posts for the process and progress:

• Hippo Fun in Two Styles
• Wednesday WrapUp Giraffe Fun
• Safari Adventure Collection
• Local Flora Prep
• First Sunflower Sketch
• Sunflower Sketch Expanded
• Sunflower in Pastels

Some of my best research sites are:

• Burke Herbarium — about the plant
• Earth Planet— Native American uses
• US Forest Service / Montana— Bees

Try It

So are you ready for the challenge? A prompt each Friday for three weeks with inspiration tips and suggested palettes. You’ll have three designs ready for your portfolio. Check it out!

And you’re welcome to follow this blog for art inspiration. We can share with #warmup4art to enjoy our work together! I look forward to your sharing and find me at @42Sheri, on Mastodon Sheri42, on Flickr teach.eagle Sheri 42.

my creative process, including research, palette selection, and motif creation using Procreate

watercolor style arrowleaf balsam root  for the #3x3designchallenge  #sketchdesignrepeat  prompt “Local Flora” #arrowleafbalsamroot #sunflower #localflora @sketchdesignrepeat

#warmup4art #cldoodle24 

#bardotbrush by Lisa Bardot