Artwork - progress + GIF

Hello dear Steemit friends!

Finally I can present to you another step by step tutorial showing how I created my drawing :)

It felt like it took forever to finish this drawing (in fact I can see myself still changing couple of things here and there hahah) ;)

The truth is I was sooooo amazed by your kind support! And because of that I wanted this artwork to be as enjoyable to you as the previous one. I wanted it to be great, and I spend last couple of days embellishing it. I hope you'll enjoy the final result, that was my purpose ;) I'll stick to the formula from the last post- progress pictures with commentary and a GIF at the end. I worked with pencil, fineliners and markers of different size. The paper is size A3.

I'm very thankful for a very generous support that was a game changer for me! Thank you so much! ;) I am also very thankful for all your nice and interesting comments, and I would especially like to thank @jacinta.sevilla, @creativista, @vermillionfox, @mikepm74, @jamesartville and @stahlberg! Thank you guys, I hope I'll be able to return all your kindness!

So, without any further ado, here's the final result. The scene depicts two frogs in a forest lake. I must admit that the tone of this scene is darker than I planned, so the frogs- instead of being funny, may look rather lost or even scared, I think.

I started with sketching the outlines of the water line, tree trunk and the shore. I wanted the tree to be in the centre.

Then the frogs came ;)

I thought for a while about what to place on the shore, and decided to model some stylized plants there.

I added leaves to the plants and circular lights in the sky.

And then even more plants and lights. I decided that this amount of details is enough.

It was a time to redraw the lines with a fineliner and start with shading.

For some reason I wanted to begin with the tree trunk. I used lots of fine lines to create a rather soft texture and delicate shading.

I wasn't going to finish the tree all at once, so after few more lines I went on to the lights. I wanted to orchestrate the overall shading of the drawing later on when all the elements will be initially shaded.

This time my dots were a little bit more organized than always, I created circles around the white centres.

Here you can see the progression of stippling.

So the dots were kind of tidily organized around the lights and more chaotic in the lower part of the drawing. I liked how they formed some irregular patterns.

Behind the tree trunk... This dot shading wasn't looking great at the beginning, but in the end it gave a nice impression of strange, diffused light.

I was thinking about placing some more dark outlines of the plants behind the ones in the front, but decided to leave it as it was. Here you can see the lines I sketched on the ground.

I started with thick lines,

and then added some fine lines in between.

Then it was time for more intense shading. The scene started to look more mysterious.

And finally the water! I started with initial lines indicating waves.

I wanted the ridges of the waves to be dark, and the space between the ridges to have lighter shade.

More and more lines to create nice texture.

After I was finished with the water, I dotted the frogs and added some small details here and there.
And it was late at night when I decided that I've finished working on this piece ;) I really hope you'll like it.

Here is the promised GIF: