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A number of people have noted me about my thought processes and stages that I do for one my paintings. So I thought I would try and show everyone here what kind of things I do and think about when I paint some fan art. I'm using my latest Clara Oswald painting as an example rather than noted people back separately. So here goes...

1. Originally this was going to be just a portrait of Clara Oswald, as I love painting faces. It was going to be titled 'The Look of Love' and I wanted to paint her love for the Doctor.
2. After I was happy with her face, I pondered about her hair style but decided to give her a modern sexy look.
3. Now after doing her hair, I do what I do quite a lot and that is to completely change my initial plan and so decided to add her body. I've done a lot of life during college and do a lot of superheroes before so I just added a simple stance for her.
4. Then I dressed her by blocking in a typical type of top and tights that she normally wears.
5. This was one of the dresses that I want to give her but changed my mind.
6. Decided to give her the famous chequered top so I had to do the strips. I done this just by a long block of paint, then painted on top of that a thinner line of paint and so on. When I got one strip to my liking, I just duplicated it one way, then rotated it to give the chequered effect.
7. Then I erased the bits of strips that when over the dress.
8. I was in two minds about the background, this was the first one as I just wanted a simple one to highlight Clara and her figure. With the light behind her, I made her front darker.
9. The other background was the Tardis, with her walking out with the bright light and smoke. This was the one I decided on eventually. So after tidying everything up with the colours, brightness and contrast the painting was ready to post.

I'm sorry this doesn't show what brushes I used, how many layers, textures or even how much flow I use with the brushes and so on. I just wanted to reply to the questions that some of you have asked and I hope some of you have found this interesting.

Thank you for taking the time to read this

Finished piece

Description
A number of people have noted me about my thought processes and stages that I do for one my paintings. So I thought I would try and show everyone here what kind of things I do and think about when I paint some fan art. I'm using my latest Clara Oswald painting as an example rather than noted people back separately. So here goes...

1. Originally this was going to be just a portrait of Clara Oswald, as I love painting faces. It was going to be titled 'The Look of Love' and I wanted to paint her love for the Doctor.
2. After I was happy with her face, I pondered about her hair style but decided to give her a modern sexy look.
3. Now after doing her hair, I do what I do quite a lot and that is to completely change my initial plan and so decided to add her body. I've done a lot of life during college and do a lot of superheroes before so I just added a simple stance for her.
4. Then I dressed her by blocking in a typical type of top and tights that she normally wears.
5. This was one of the dresses that I want to give her but changed my mind.
6. Decided to give her the famous chequered top so I had to do the strips. I done this just by a long block of paint, then painted on top of that a thinner line of paint and so on. When I got one strip to my liking, I just duplicated it one way, then rotated it to give the chequered effect.
7. Then I erased the bits of strips that when over the dress.
8. I was in two minds about the background, this was the first one as I just wanted a simple one to highlight Clara and her figure. With the light behind her, I made her front darker.
9. The other background was the Tardis, with her walking out with the bright light and smoke. This was the one I decided on eventually. So after tidying everything up with the colours, brightness and contrast the painting was ready to post.

I'm sorry this doesn't show what brushes I used, how many layers, textures or even how much flow I use with the brushes and so on. I just wanted to reply to the questions that some of you have asked and I hope some of you have found this interesting.

Thank you for taking the time to read this

Finished piece