My Drawing Process of “Cats and Topiaries”

Like the last post that I mentioned, I participated an art challenge on Instagram for the first week of the year 2023, the prompts are all about cats and flowers. I am late for some prompts, but I will take my time finish 7 of them. Let’s see how I work on this one.

First, I did some research on Pinterest, to navigate some images about cats and topiaries, then it came to me the idea to draw like this, here is my sketch below. There are many simple and regular shapes in this sketch, so I decided to use stamp. Below you can see the shapes I cut and the inks I used to stamp.

I stamped on paper using the shapes and a roller on which I applied ink colours. You can see the stamped result below, then I use color pencils to add some shadows and details.

To do a test, I used Pan Pastel to enhance the contrast (specially the light part), Pan Pastel is a kind of soft pastel, like the makeup applying on the face, so smooth and it did make some difference. Then I added some blending effect on Photoshop to let the illustration more vivid.

I don’t really like the color tone of the original illustration, so I modified the background with acrylic colors like below. Then I added some color blending with photoshop and then it’s the final illustration….. finally.

To see my other illustration of the “Cats In The Garden Series”, please go here https://margothuang.site/portfolio-item/cat-and-flowers-illustration/

And I am happy to share with you that I like these series of illustrations so much, I also sell them as Original A4/A5 Prints and as Stickers on my shop here https://margothuang.site/product-tag/cat/

Thank you for reading and hope you like it.