How I created Indian Monuments Illustrations

Before joining Iconscout 6 months back, I used to make all my drawings on paper with my pencils and pens. But when I joined here as an Illustration Designer, I come to know about the importance of digital design. I learned to draw digitally along with various other tricks of designing.

After months of practice where I have created many Indian Monument Illustrations, we decided to create something related to India. That's when Indian Monuments illustrations idea came in. After the initial discussion, the team has decided to hand me over the entire project. So here I am documenting my process of how I created this pack.

Research

Research is the first and most important part of creation. For the research part, I studied the art culture, went through some famous works. Searched for inspiration, After going through a lot of references and studying the past closely here I am with my perspective of India and its monuments.

Making and Process:

List - First of all the list of monuments was created followed by the shortlisting of these according to the states and cities. There was a long list of monuments so, we decided to post them in groups and not all at once. This is a trial project to know the audience's response.

So here are the shortlisted monuments:

1. Taj Mahal from Agra
2. India gate from Delhi
3. Gateway of India from Mumbai
4. Charminar from Hyderabad
5. Agra fort from Agra
6. Victoria memorial from Kolkata
7. Shaniwar wada from Pune
8. Open hand monument from Chandigarh
9. Moti masjid from Bhopal
10. Humayun tomb from Delhi
11. Gol gumbaz from Bijapur
12. Buland darwaza from Fatehpur sikri
13. Hawa Mahal from Jaipur
14. Cellular jail from Andaman islands
15. Lotus temple from Delhi
16. Bada imambara from Lucknow
17. Mysore palace from Mysore
18. Qutub Minar from Delhi
19. The red fort from Delhi
20. Shri Maheshwari temple from Chennai

Guidelines:

Style, View, and Colour

Coming to style, view, the color we had to decide the guide for this illustration pack. These indian monument illustrations were hand-drawn so with the hand-drawn reference we created a design with straight lines, sharp and perfect measurements. We wanted to give a realistic look so we stuck to actual colors. So after going through lots of trial sketches and styles we came to these conclusive decisions.

Sketches:

Monuments are known for their beauty and we have tried to incorporate it in our sketches. Simple and subtle with authenticity. These illustrations are created based on the essence of Indian heritage.

Process:

Final Results:

Here are the 20 vector indian monument illustrations available in SVG, PNG, and EPS file formats.

How You Can Download

Indian Monuments Illustrations are totally free to download. Download now and enjoy!!!

Tips

Adding and removing a detail can do wonders. It’s the small things that matter the most in the illustrations.

My overall experience has been wonderful and special thanks to the team Iconscout for always guiding and motivating me at every step.

Thank you for reading. I hope you loved reading it and it was helpful!