Reindeer WIP 1 (Patreon)

Here is the first WIP. thought I would provide a little explination with these. On the left you see a bunch of refrence. I always select the refrence I am going to use before starting an image. I never take completely from refrence and only use them as a guide to understand light color and shape. I use very little layers but tend to start off with a black and white painting of the head over the lines to get an overall feel for lighting. I then paint over with a color blending mode on the same layer and continue with a normal blending mode from there. the color and shadeing of the head is used then to get a general idea of what I want to do with the rest of the body. I like a small layers panel so most of my images only have a color layer, a line layer, and a background layer.