NickyDrew Illustration
🌿Kidlit illustrator & writer🌿
🍃Nature lover & practicing bookwyrm 📚
✨Member of SCBWI✨
This is a place where I share my quest to grow my (mostly-traditional) art skills, usually geared towards the world of children's book illustration. There's always more to learn and practice!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find the sharing of my own journey helpful for yours.💚
Halloween Card Creation Process Timelapse 🎃
🎃 Make a Halloween card, start to finish (sketch & color guide in description)! Nature sounds 🌿
How I Make Digital Color Studies (handy for testing out color combos!)
2nd try at sharing why I'm dropping down to one video a month 🌿
Low-key timelapse of watercolor practice session: calm ocean sounds, no talking 🌊
Drawing a Prickly Pear Catcus on my iPad, w/ nature sounds!
Watercolor Practice: color-mixing & painting fur, w/ backyard nature sounds 🌿no talking
Painting a Picture Book Cover Illustration for my Portfolio!🦖
Conservation Art Sketch Process: Timelapse, no talking
Step 8: Scan & Edit the Watercolor Painting: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 7: The Final Art! Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 6: With a Projector! Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 5: The Detailed Sketch: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 4: Colors Guide for Painting!: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 3: Making the Value Study: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 2: Full-size Rough Sketch: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Step 1: Brainstorming Thumbnail Layouts: Creating a Children's Book Illustration Step by Step 🎨
Blue Iguana Painting Process, under a tree: No talking, ambient backyard sounds🌿
Making a Watercolor Nature Journal: Part 3: Nature sounds, no talking🌿
Making a Watercolor Nature Journal: Part 2: Nature sounds, no talking🌿
Making a Watercolor Nature Journal: Part 1: Nature sounds, no talking🌿
Timelapse:🌿Greenhouse Illustration Process: no talking, classical music
Part 13: Final video of the series!: My 1st 4 years of Becoming a Kidlit Illustrator
Part 12: 2nd Book, Fav Course, & Reference Pics: 1st Years of Becoming a Children's Book Illustrator
Part 11: 2nd Dummy & New Ventures: My Early Years of Learning to be a Children's Book Illustrator
Timelapse: Watercolor Bookmarks Illustration Process! With my backyard nature ambience, no talking
Part 10: A Year of Growth: My Beginning Years Learning to Be a Children's Book Illustrator
Part 9: Sending Out Art Samples: My Beginning Years Learning to Be a Children's Book Illustrator
Part 8: About Contracts, etc: My Beginning Years Learning to Be a Children's Book Illustrator
Part 7: 1st Book Dummy, Personal Picture Book & Critique: Becoming a Children's Book Illustrator