Art Attack #235: Cozy Pastel Study Desk

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!

This was from back in July 2025, when I came across another art tutorial from Art with Flo! I've drawn along to quite a few of her videos and they always turn out so nice! She's also taught me a lot about how Procreate works, as well as different techniques and shortcuts.

I came across this video of hers and thought this one would make a nice background for my stream too so I wanted to see how hard it would be to customise it. But to do that, I wanted to draw along with her first.

Following Flo's video, we first start off with a sketch with all the big items using a chalk pencil which is a new brush to me but I actually liked how it feels and looks.

After that we draw in some heart shapes for the leaves, and some fine touches on the notepad as well as a pen and pencil in the corner.

Once our sketch was done, it was time to do the line art! We switched to a Dry Ink brush for this one, which I've used before with another one of Flo's tutorials and I really liked it too.

It's a good habit to keep the sketches clean so that the line art can be easily followed. I tried my best not to do too much hatching when sketching so that I can follow it easily when lining.

After adding in some fine touches on the phone and the leaves, we get this:

It'd quite difficult to keep the line art at an even thickness for all the lines, and I think it's understandable for some to be thicker than others to give it depth. But I think the stickers on the iPad could've been thicker.

For the colouring, Flo taught me a new technique, rather than referencing a layer since we have incomplete objects, we use the selection tool. It's kind of like the lasso tool in Photoshop I suppose, but we can actually use it to fill the colours easily. This is where the thick lines would come in handy since it'll be easy to select the areas without going over the lines.

Another good thing about Flo's videos is not only does she draw each part step by step, but she also provides the colour palette she uses for free! So it's super convenient to draw along to her videos.

After we add all the flat colours, this is the result:

Next it was time to add some extra texture and shadows! We switched to the Watercolour brush for this to add some light shadows and some texture on the leaves. and then swapped to the Script calligraphy brush again to add some darker shadows.

Finally, we add some extra lighting effects including a shadow on the top going diagonally. We also adjusted the height based on the object it's falling on which I thought was a neat touch. For those notches we actually extracted it using the Selection tool again but this time removing that area.

For the lighted area, we use the Selection tool again, this time putting a filter on the layer so it adds the colour. Then we adjust the amount of light by adding another layer and making it darker in the bottom right corner. This was another new technique I learned from Flo, and it really elevated the drawing from the flat colours we had.

This already looked good at this point, but we finished up by adding some extra sparkles here and there and also imported the images for the phone. In the end, we get this:

I did end up switching this quite a bit for my own streaming scene, but I think I'll cover this in another post. The concept was quite similar but I changed the objects around and added some extra stuff too.

If you use Procreate on iPad just like me, I highly recommend checking out Flo's videos! She has a ton of these tutorials you can follow along for free, and she also dabbles in other art styles as well. Thanks to Flo for this video!

Thanks so much for reading!