Scott DuBar Illustration

Tag: 52 Week Drawing Challenge

  • The Bee And The Leprechaun

    The Bee And The Leprechaun

    Bee finds a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
    Bee finds a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

    Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day! This is week four of my 52-week illustration challenge. My little bee has found a leprechaun sleeping next to his pot of gold among the shamrocks. Lucky for the leprechaun, bees don’t need gold.

  • Sleeping Bee

    Sleeping Bee

    Sleeping bee spends the night on a flower under the glow of flickering fireflies. 52-Week Drawing Challenge
    Cute bee spends the night sleeping on a flower under the glow of flickering fireflies.

    Week three of my 52-week drawing challenge finds a sleeping bee nestled in a flower as lightning bugs float lazily by. Fun fact: bees sometimes stay out too long to fly home safely, so they sleep on flowers overnight. I’m sure it looks exactly like this when they do!

    Below you can check out some progress photos. The first is a shot of the image in Photoshop. The second is of the finished inked drawing, which I do traditionally by hand.

    Sleeping bee spends the night on a flower under the glow of flickering fireflies. 52-Week Drawing Challenge
    Adding color and texture in Photoshop.
    Sleeping bee spends the night on a flower under the glow of flickering fireflies. 52-Week Drawing Challenge
    Inking done using a crow quill pen.
  • There Is No Planet Bee | #KidLit4Climate

    There Is No Planet Bee | #KidLit4Climate

    There Is No Planet Bee | #kidlit4climate
    There Is No Planet Bee | #kidlit4climate

    I was very happy to dedicate this week’s Drawing Challenge illustration to #kidlit4climate. Not only does it support a cause that is very important to me, but it also has given me an opportunity to continue my now-ongoing bee series with There Is No Planet Bee.

    UK children’s book illustrator Emma Reynolds is asking the kidlit community to help support Greta Thunberg, a sixteen-year-old climate activist who has been striking from school every Friday. She has inspired young people all over the world to organize their own strikes and call for climate action, and on March 15th there will be the biggest strike yet. The aim of the #kidlit4climate campaign is to amplify their message. You can learn more about it all here: https://emmareynoldsillustration.com/kidlit4climate

    There Is No Planet Bee | #kidlit4climate
    52-Week Drawing Challenge| Week 02 | #kidlit4climate
  • Kissing Bees

    Kissing Bees

    Two cute bees sharing a kiss inside a Spring flower.
    Two cute bees sharing a kiss inside a Spring flower.

    What better way to get into the springtime spirit than with two cute kissing bees? This marks week one of my 52-week drawing challenge. I started planning for this earlier in the month when I was in a bit of a Valentines Day mood. It’s actually my second bee illustration in this style (You can see the first one here.) and I’m starting to really feel like I could happily come up with many more.

    Kissing bees WIP
    Kissing Bees WIP | 52 Week Drawing Challenge

    UPDATE: My wife pointed out that I accidentally gave the bees and even the ladybug eight legs instead of six! This is the sort of thing I usually am very careful about (my parents were scientists) so of course I had to make some quick edits. Happy, everyone now has the correct number of appendages! You can see horrible spider-bee hybrid monsters in the progress image above.