More Orchardness

Just finished colouring some more decorative illustration for my forthcoming site..

Design Orchard

Is going to be the name of my new company, i think. Have been working on a background illustration for the website, and decided it was high time I put some serious effort into learning the pen tool in illustrator and photoshop... definitely making progress, although still have quite a hill to climb. i will get there! (i'm self/google taught, so any advice gratefully received)

stripped back to pure shape



added a few strokes and gradients



original pen marks with pen paths used for colour block




Squirrel and bird have their moment. tempted to re-draw but know i should press on with sorting the grasses and shading under each tree. Dont want to get too lost in the detail... yet.