Singing Octopus

Singing Octopus. My daughter drew on the wall and every time I work out, I see a singing octopus. So I drew it for her to put on her wall.

iPad, procreate, and lots of references.

I want it to look like the actual wall drawing so I tried to make it a similar shape as the original drawing. Then I had to decide how the legs were going to look.

Once I had some of the look down, I need the outlne. However I didnt like the the line shape in the first outling, so I recolor and redrew.

Time to pick the color scheme. My daughters favorite colors are pink and purple. So I started with a base and worked my up. Utilizing my layers, by adding diferent colored textures (speckles).

Now to spice it up with some background fun. with draw one bubble and duplicating.

I gradient blurred together some blues and added a little yellow for sunlight.

Lastly I added a little color balance, perspective blur, curves, and HSB.