[High-res Art | Comm | WIP] Miranda Mystical the star maker StepProcess (Patreon)

These are all the steps followed to create the lastest commission featuring Koleyl's character, Miranda Mystical.

PS: Yes I do regret not having recorded a speedpaint of this one :c

1- Character sketch: 1st I start sketching the character making sure to follow all the reference pictures provided by the client, I decided to go for a more dynamic, lively pose that kinda implied she was moving

2- Early Background sketch: I started the rough draft of the background to get a better idea of what to do, I didn't really care for details in this stage as I was not sure how to proceed exactly.

3- Final Background sketch: After some thoughts, I decided to put a forest in the background and not the mountains, while giving more touches to the nightsky

4- Refined Background: Then, I took the elements from the earlier step, and drew extra details on top of them, I warped the trees from the forest and completely redrew the mountains, all of it to give it more perspective and make it look like Miranda was actually in a very large open field.

5- Char. Lineart/Flatcolors: After the background was finished I started working on the character, adding linearts with details and basic flat colors.
On top of that I decided to finish up the sky by adding the many stars using a special brush to save time.

6- Char. Shading: Once everything was done and the idea was already firmly grasped on my mind, I began with all the shading and lightning effect to solidify the character's blending with the character.

7- Extra effects: I added even more effects like gradients, rim light and of course glow for the crystal ball and the stars generated by them!

8- Final touches and lightning: I add a few lightning tweaks here and there to further emphazise the attention to the character herself, and to make the whole picture more fantastical overall.