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Software: Procreate

*Note: this is not meant to be a tutorial. This is mostly my own notes on my thought processes and want to share with others my process rather than just showing the end product. I mostly learn from my attempts and many years of experience and practice and be willing to screw up. I just mostly want to share my love of art with others, and I am thankful for the online artist community that inspires me to be an better artist than the person I was, and push myself to be better than I am.

1. Sketch and composition: I usually do a quick rough sketch using reference material and figure out how I want the composition of the overall image be otherwise I will probably be unhappy about it if the end result image is not quite what I want (because the anatomy is off, or the character is not placed in a good position)

2. Line art and base colors: like the clean up artist who do the line art for animation, I draw over the sketch layer while still keeping the liveliness of the intended image. As for the colors I love playing with a wide variety of color, but nowadays I have been limiting my color palette for the most part (which speed up the illustrating process and creates some sense of uniformity).

3. Backgrounds, layers, shadows and lighting: nowadays with digital illustration, I am still playing around and experimenting with layers and lighting (multiply, add, overlay, etc...) and color theory. I like to add layers, duplicate layers, merge layers, and at this point just messing around.

4. All the glitter to the final product: at this point I am ready to be done with the image and just amping up on the lighting, shadows, final details in the background that I felt is left out and is important, and well the “glitter” (you know, the stuff you pour all over your artwork and give your teachers and parents a headache with the cleanup they will need to do afterwards of the tiny pieces of sparkly plastic). Someone once said that perfection is accomplished when there is nothing left to take away. Another saying I remember is one a friend told me “if you do not make a complete mess of the art, you are not trying hard enough”, which I interpreted as it’s okay to make mistakes and mess ups, it means you’re experimenting with things and see what’s possible. And for digital art you can always “undo”.

Description
Software: Procreate

*Note: this is not meant to be a tutorial. This is mostly my own notes on my thought processes and want to share with others my process rather than just showing the end product. I mostly learn from my attempts and many years of experience and practice and be willing to screw up. I just mostly want to share my love of art with others, and I am thankful for the online artist community that inspires me to be an better artist than the person I was, and push myself to be better than I am.

1. Sketch and composition: I usually do a quick rough sketch using reference material and figure out how I want the composition of the overall image be otherwise I will probably be unhappy about it if the end result image is not quite what I want (because the anatomy is off, or the character is not placed in a good position)

2. Line art and base colors: like the clean up artist who do the line art for animation, I draw over the sketch layer while still keeping the liveliness of the intended image. As for the colors I love playing with a wide variety of color, but nowadays I have been limiting my color palette for the most part (which speed up the illustrating process and creates some sense of uniformity).

3. Backgrounds, layers, shadows and lighting: nowadays with digital illustration, I am still playing around and experimenting with layers and lighting (multiply, add, overlay, etc...) and color theory. I like to add layers, duplicate layers, merge layers, and at this point just messing around.

4. All the glitter to the final product: at this point I am ready to be done with the image and just amping up on the lighting, shadows, final details in the background that I felt is left out and is important, and well the “glitter” (you know, the stuff you pour all over your artwork and give your teachers and parents a headache with the cleanup they will need to do afterwards of the tiny pieces of sparkly plastic). Someone once said that perfection is accomplished when there is nothing left to take away. Another saying I remember is one a friend told me “if you do not make a complete mess of the art, you are not trying hard enough”, which I interpreted as it’s okay to make mistakes and mess ups, it means you’re experimenting with things and see what’s possible. And for digital art you can always “undo”.