Hey Hive!
We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!
So last week, I shared my first dip into the vast ocean that is digital art! Sean very generously gifted me a brand new iPad Pro as an early birthday present and I got to work on it straight away! I started with something simple; colouring in my friend's tattoo and I got this:
It was really cool to try out digital art and I was excited to start drawing pieces from scratch, but I wanted to get more practise in so I decided to choose a simple landscape piece to imitate. And I was stumped on what to draw until I saw this cute poster in the marketplace of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp!
Pocket Camp is probably my most played mobile games since I don't really play games on my phone, but it's a good game to just procrastinate for a bit, or to play when you're bored.
Anyway, I wanted to try out different drawing apps, so I did this piece on Adobe Sketch (which actually kinda sucks btw, don't use it).
So I started with the frame and background first, establishing the different terrains. I think I might've put the land a little too high actually but oh well.
Then I realised the tent was a little too huge and had to resize it. And I sketched out the camper!
I decide to give the camper a little face since it looked like it kinda had a face to me, and I thought it'd look so cute!
Colouring in the sides of the camper to give it a little more depth. I probably should've made it darker tbh.
Eventually I got this! I think I might've screwed up the trees and bushes though.
And then I realised I missed out on a few details, like the flag on the tent and a shadow under the camper, so we get this:
It was definitely tough to get the shapes nice and smooth, as you can see. Adobe Sketch and Fresco were kinda unhelpful in that regard. The hardest were definitely the wheels. I needed them to look round but sharp from the front, if that makes sense. I also wasn't sure about the gradient since the poster in-game is kinda neutral, but I thought it would give the piece more depth, but then the shadow looked a little out of place. Ah well.
I think overall this piece looks alright. The camper looks cute, the colours are nice, and it looks about the same as the original. I posted this piece on the Pocket Camp subreddit and got a lot of nice comments on it so I guess it looks good!
And most importantly, I learned more about digital art and knew not to use those free Adobe apps. Definitely excited to work on more digital art in the future!
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
