Thelightsmen

[High-Res Art | WIP] The Christmas Bandit Steprocess

Added 2020-12-16 00:46:23 +0000 UTC

These were all the steps taken to draw the lastest reward for StormFox!

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1- Early sketch: First things first, I sketch out a rough outline of what I'm gonna work on in hopes of figuring out how to approach this reward, in here I find out what the overall pose I should go for is, as well as things like face expression, etc.

2- Refined sketch: After receiving feedback from Storm, I tweak the sketch until it looks good to go. In here I fix the proportion/scaling issues, the face, and add boots, a hat, the brass knucles and a tail.

3- Final sketch: Finally I erase some extra lines while adding some details to the muscles and sack.

4- Lineart: After the sketch, I draw all the proper lines along with the details.

5- Flat colors: Once the lines are done, I get in all the base colors to get started on the final design.

6- Full flats: In a different layer (just in case) I draw the rest of the colors necessary on top of the base palette

7- Gradients: To enhance the colors a bit, I add a couple specific gradients on top of the flat colors to get some lightning perception going on without really having real shading.

8- Shading: After everything else, I move on with the stronger shading layers with the real shadows, 2 layers with brown shadows, 1 with yellow highlights

9- Lightning effects: To finalize everything, I add glow effects to the places most lit as well as some environmental shadows!