My Journey into Human Character Illustrations

Decided to challenge myself to do a digital illustration of humans. I’ve gotten very comfortable with drawing certain animals, nature, and inanimate objects. Lately, I’ve been wanting to stretch myself and start working on illustrations with human characters. The reference for this was an old photo of a friend taken while out picking strawberries with her oldest son. The original photo has him eating a strawberry with the leaf poking out. And when I showed the illustration to my friend, she pointed out that it looked like he was smoking! Definitely not my intention, but it made me laugh. And realize I need to work on making certain elements like that much more obvious as to what it is. Decided to remove that element from the illustration altogether for the time being. I am very pleased with how most of the shading came out. There’s always room for improvement, and I might come back to this piece again in the future. but I’m incredibly happy with where I’ve decided to finish this illustration.

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