Bitter Coffee

I came up with an idea, why not try too combine to forms of art my post, like poetry and drawing/illustration. So I decided to start, why not try?, I'm usually that kind of person who is not good in writing just an average but I'm happy I was able to create a poem, and illustration who took me a lot lot of hours. So I dedicated my works to all the fathers out there, who will do anything to provide for their family, being selfless and has great unconditional love. The poem is all about a man, and his journey, where he started a life and the moment together with his coffee, thinking about things in life, on how he is going to face everything. And then, there's such time that, he is realizing he is getting older, and he had a lot of children to raise and support and he was so afraid leaving this world because hes the one that his family relies to. So his time, together with his coffee, is his escape and fortress when doubts and fears are overshadowing him. It's his way of meditating, to think calmly even worst things may happen, which is inevitable.

And ofcourse, when I post, I always Include the process I've made, for those who want to learn like.

I love monochromatic way of coloring my works, and I chose shades of brown, since theme is cofee, you know what I mean

First, I've search for my a reference, the one that I'me going to illustrate, luckily I've found a stock footage with my preferences

Next, as usual, I always starts with the outline, I don't know about the other artist, if that's their first step, but for me it is, artists have different of styles and technique anyways.

Tracing... Lots of details, wrinkles are killing me 😅😂

So, when I trace, I always hide the reference photo, to see my progress, (looking good) 😀

Then, make sure to create a separate layer for your base color (when start adding color) to avoid complications. Not gonna explain deep with that, just trust me

Moving on, adding shadows. I also Added a Shirt to grandpa, coz he's kinda looks too bad ass with his shirt off with his tattoo, I want him to look like more gentle and clam. So it's not easy to create a vector art, every detail, like shadows, you really need to work hard with, it all takes patience. And I strictly do not advise you, to just use a filter here in Illustrator or Photoshop, adjusting the curves and shadows or adding filter just to make your work looked like a vector, those are just tools for improving your work. If you used it like doing nothing, and you just use it and that's it, I tell you, you are not doing a vector, you're just cheating the system, don't be lazy work hard for it. (I'm not scolding you guys! 😂😄😂)

I'm using pentool, in adding colors to my work

Try to be creative, try to explore and have a experiment with colors, if it sucks, don't worry there's almighty "CTRL+Z" anyway.

I always use fundamental colors present in creating illustration, MIDTONE, SHADOW, HIGHLIGHTS. Here's the thing you can add different values/shades of shadows if you want.

And you can also play with the shadow, you can create a unique flow of it. Check this out:

Next, working with the eyes, you can use shape, in creating eyes, and dont just make the "sclera" eyes white part, to remain white, you can add level of shadows to it.

Looking good 🤗🤗🤗

Then I start to work with the tree, adding elements to my work

I've then decided to add falling leaves, I've search for a reference and found this stock footage, I then traced it with pen
tool, I don't if how long my mouse can take the agony, It's like I'm clicking it it, thousands a day 😂

Here, I just duplicate the leaves and rotate and reflect it different to direction, for it to look like different form the other leaves

Next, I've made a gradient background, and I really love it! it gives so much effect and drama to my illustration, just click this icon right here:

Almost done,

But, wait there's something missing! guess what? It's highlight, its important to add highlight to your work, because it's the one that makes it alive and make your work pop!
See the comparison for yourself!

(without highlight)

(with highlight)

Looks awesome right?

Lastly, to make it perfect, a coffee is not a coffee when its not warm! (just my own opinion, don't want a debate 😂) So I added some smoke/fog/heat whatever you call it, to make my illustration complete.

Cool right?

After 11 hrs of work, finally done, wooo, thank God.

So that's the all the process, just continue to get in touch, maybe in my future work, I'll post a very much detailed process on how I'm illustrating my works.

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