July Exclusive - Mechanic Dress Down WIP (Patreon)

Hey all!

The July Exclusive is coming along relatively well.
I wanted to share with you my Dungeness Crabs a bit of my process while I work on this.

Generally after sketching a piece out, I will throw down flat colors on the characters and background elements. I make sure to separate these out in order of overlap + far/midddle/near to make it easier to paint later.
Here you can see me working on some raw values which I will apply to the flat color layer with a multiply filter to get a general idea for how the shadows will look.

With the multiply effect applied, I can spend more time getting volumes figured out and making sure my three dimensional shapes aren't flat.

After I get the value layer cleaned up, but definitely not perfect, I will separate it by using the flat color layers to make selections, merge the lines + values + flats, and painting over them. I will also use additional layer effects to alter colors without needing to repaint large sections.

Hope you guys enjoy the preview. The piece should be finished up this weekend.

There will be a Halibut stream Saturday at 12:00pm PDT.

Til next time!