Seeing this drawing (below) by the Argentinian illustrator Gabi Cerda (@crdagabi on Instagram) made me instantly happy. It’s a funny drawing with a nice composition and the more graphical style fits with the rather lighthearted idea of the illustration.
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gabi_cerda_original.jpg)
Sometimes I do a #drawthisinyourownstyle on Instagram (a challenge where you make your own version of someone else’s drawing), so after asking (politely 🙂 ) if I could have a go with it, I began sketching.
Below you find the different stages of progress and the final version.
I started with a sketch of course, that I finished quite fast, because I could reuse the existing composition. As our styles differ much, you can see that I added more depth through perspective.
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/primavera_0_sketch.jpg)
As part of my usual workflow, I scanned the sketch and made a subtle print on Canson paper. This allows me to keep my original sketch in my sketchbok. Then I do the inks on the printed version. The (laserprinter-)ink doesn’t attach very well to the Canson drawing paper. This allows me to erase the subtle printed sketch lines with an ordinary eraser after inking.
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/primavera_1_ink-707x1024.jpg)
Then the watercolours come in! First I add a warm yellow undertone.
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/primavera_2_yellow-715x1024.jpg)
Then I add shadows (usually a mix of ultramarin blue and burnt sienna, which result in a warm grey tone).
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/primavera_3_shadows-626x1024.jpg)
How my workplace looks while painting…
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/primavera_4_desk-749x1024.jpg)
And then, after adding the other colours and some finishing touches (including adding accents with Caran d’Ache colour pencils) the illustration is ready!
![](https://www.kreativosaurus.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/final-795x1024.jpg)
You can follow @crdagabi ’s work on https://www.instagram.com/crdagabi/ and on https://www.instagram.com/pecosas.ar.