First off, I pick a canvas and start by sketching. Using the brushes already imbedded in the app, I sketch a circle for the head and shape the face around the circle. Then I use lines to help me with the proportions of the face. After that I draw the neck and then the rest of the body. I am pretty good a knowing what goes where and how to form figures because of how long I've done art, but I still use lines and shapes to help me with postures and to make it feel more alive.
When I finish the sketch, I do a line art sketch. Using darker lines drawing over the sketch on an overlaying layer, I start to draw out the figure. Line art sketches help me make changes to the figure without actually adding the final line art.
Next, I do the final line art with one of my favorite brushes. It has the visual effect of a crayon, and I think it looks so cool. Anyways, I go over my line art sketch on an overlaying layer and make it more detailed.
After finishing the line art, I color in the figure with flat colors. This is my persona, so I use the color palate I've made for her.
Once I finish coloring her in, I use a darker hue of the same color to do shadows and a lighter color of the same hue to add highlights. I also use a hard blending brush to fade color onto her horns, ears, and skin. After finishing her colors, I combine all the layers.
She looks good so far but let's make her pop out even more!
I add a clipping mask to a layer above the colored layer. This allows me to color only on the layer below. I use a very dark purple for the extreme shading and a really light yellow for the extreme highlights. I blur the layer and then lower the opacity of the layer.
Once I lower the opacity of the layer, I make a layer above the line art layer and make it a clipping mask. Now I can color on the line art to make it different colors. I then make another layer above all the layers and add white marks on her earrings, horns, nose, and book bag to make them appear shiny.
Lastly, I add a little blush and make the background. I outline her figure with white on a layer below all the other layers, I like to do this detail to my art because it makes the figure look like a sticker. I color the background and use an airbrush to add some more depth to the background.
After all that, I am finished. Looks good, right?
CONCLUSION
You can make a digital artwork however you feel is comfortable to you. You don't need to follow my steps, but I'm glad that I showed you some of my tips and tricks. Hopefully these tricks will help with your art next time. Thank you for looking through my blog and I hope you have a good day.
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