[High-Res Art | Reward | WIP] Fiery Leaf Steprocess (Patreon)

Final version 

These were all the steps taken to create the lastest reward for Leaf!

• 1- Sketch: Since I've gotten pretty good at drawing this character, I came up with a good sketch to go off from the start, I had some doubts about how to make the fire work but I resolved them quickly.
• 2- Lineart | Leafa: After the sketch was done and approved by the patreon, I started with the lineart for the main character, as always, putting all details down and make it as clean as possible. In this case I decided to work on the character and the fire in complete separate stages.
• 3- Lineart | Fire: Then for the fire I had to take a little more time to do the proper lines while making them clear but also defined, as the sketch was just a mere idea of what I was going for and not something I was meant to trace over. 
• 4- Flat colors: Then I add the very basic colors to all elements
• 5- Full flats: Later I add the extra set of colors on a new layer for each element (char/fire)
• 6- Gradients & extra fire lineart: I add some extra gradients to all the colors, and also start working on some lines for some extra fire in the back.
• 7- Full flats on fire and extra lines: I repeat the process of the color and gradients for the bg fire
• 8- Lineart coloring: Now I color the lines to finalize the look of the fire, and also enhance the lightning effect of them on the character.
• 9- Shading: Since the character is basically surrounded by lightsources, the shadows have to be minimal and the hightlights a lot stronger, so I did 3 layers for each shading (1 for shadows, 2 for highights) and put the theoretical light source on the bottom, to make it look much more menacing and/or badass.
• 10- Final touches and effects: Finally, I add some glow effects to make the fire even more convincing, and also some extra badass shiny effect on Leafa's eyes to show she means business (All in their layers). And we're done!