bees and flowers

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  • hello sketchbook community friends, right now I am going to share a picture of a bee landing on a beautiful flower full of nectar.
    As usual, before we go any further, let's first start with a simple sketch to form the pattern.
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  • next, clarify the pattern with a clearer picture and the shape of a bee starts to form.

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  • next, add a base color to the yellowish-brown bee picture, then add ochre brown and dark brown colors, and added the finishing touch on a bee, which is to blend all the colors together into a soft gradient.

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for one bee it's done, now let's start coloring the beautiful sunflower again.

  • here we will repeat the same instructions as the bee picture above
    sketching steps, Next, to differentiate the white of the flowers from the white of the background, we need to distinguish one of the colors by adding blue to the background, which can also work for the color of the sky.

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  • Next, add additional colors to be used as shadows on the flowers with dark brown, light yellow, orange, gray, and light and dark green on the stems.

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  • and give the finishing touch, which is the shadow that makes the image look alive.

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  • The yellow bee has been flying for too long and might have gone very far looking for a beautiful flower, and now a bee will find it. Here the bee is sucking nectar from a flower.

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give me a satisfying score, see you in the next picture

bees and flowers | Ecency