Today you will see something silly and more for fun than anything else - eastern rabbit with best wishes from my humble self, have fun, no matter how you are spending this weekend :) Below there's a short process of drawing this fellow, along with some tips. I had some fun while drawing this as it's not style I usually draw in. But I hope this can be forgiven for once :D Sometimes you need to try something else, right?

I hope that rabbit isn't scaring you off :D If you have any questions - feel free to write them in the comments.

I start with some silly sketch and get to coloring right away. I don't think too much about the concept of this bunny and the whole illustration, its shape will probably change a lot during the process anyway. Why? Because I am trying out some new style and I have no idea what to expect. Sketch is pretty much useless this time since I don't even know how to use it while drawing something so different from all the things I draw usually. So on the new layer I place first, very bright colors. I will make them darker while I continue drawing.

On the separate layer I try to draw eyes. Their shape is... Well, probably not the best :D So please just ignore it, do not draw those eyes like this. I will one day realize how they should be, for now I'm just experimenting! As for now, I have what I have so I just keep drawing, coloring white part of the eye, adding iris and pupil. Iris is blue - this color will look good with cream-peach fur of my rabbit.

On the next layer, with white color (and hard brush) I add some highlights in a pretty random way (which means - whatever came to mind) and soften them a little with the smudge tool. I also add some shadow to the upper part of the eye. You can do that with a new layer in a multiply mode - just add some shadow using soft brush and adjust opacity of this new layer to make id lighter or darker. Next I add nose and teeth, slowly start painting fur but it really is just placing color and adjusting edges with a smudge tool. Fringe was painted on the separate layer as a white spot which is later on smudged into its proper shape.

Next there is more fur, ribbon and whiskers. For fur I again just place colors with hard brush and use smudge tool to blend them together and refine edges. Painting this rabbit took me less time than writing this sentence. Ribbon was made in a similar way. Whiskers were painted on the separate layer. I used hard brush and erased endings with soft eraser.

Then I paint th egg. At first I just paint its shape on the separate layer and add some shadow on the lower part and some light in the center to make it look like it has some third dimension. On the next layer, which I change into the clipping mask, I draw stripes and change the blending mode of this layer to "color". This way I can preserve shadows I added previously. On the next layer I paint paws of my rabbit.

Last thing is adding feet and making this whole picture a bit warmer. You can do this by adding new layer on the top, painting it with a warm and bright color and changing blending mode of this layer to "overlay". It will change contrast a bit and also add a warm glow. Adjust opacity to make it less spectacular ;) Another trick is a tad more complicated: copy merged whole picture, paste at the top, use blur filter to blur it all away and change blending mode of this layer to "overlay" again. It will help shiny things shine more ;)

And here you go, quick easter rabbit is done! :)