How it's Made: The Trumpet Vine, from Image to Illustration

“Trumpet Vine Series” (from left to right: original image, sketch, colorization)

Inspired by the delicate native western NC flower, the Trumpet Vine blooms from July until October. Its sweet odor, bright colors, and bloom shape attract hummingbirds, whose delicate beaks and long tongues can easily extract the flowers’ sugary nectar. It’s no mystery why the Trumpet vine is also known as the Hummingbird vine!

Like many works of Max Flex art, the Trumpet Vine illustration started as a pencil sketch, which was photographed and imported into an iPad Pro Adobe app for colorization. To view the full transformation in time-lapse form, play the Trumpet Vine video below!