77 - colouring stages/built-up (Patreon)

Okay, one more post xd

ValkyrQ wrote to me asking how I managed to  make my Ivara look like that in the final picture. I told that one key for Ivara's cool look is that she has gradient parts in her texture, that's why she's so colourful. Then I went back to my project to make some examples how the picture is built up, especially at that part.
I've figured this could be an interesting post for some at patreon, so here we go:

This is just her Lineart. It has transparency, based on how hard I pressed the digital pen onto my tablet, the lines got darker. The Marker brush is just like that.

Because of the transparency, the lineart is actually coloured, based on the colour beneath it. Notice how the lineart is dark brown at the left side of the inner part of the hood, while at the top it's really dark orange. (This is why working with this brush as a lineart is troublesome [if ya wanna colour too], cuz the colours under it need to cover the lineart's whole region to look good.)

Added a yellow/orange-ish gradient starting from the opening of her hood and also a darker orange at the back part. Clipping mask is used here to save time.

With added pattern.

Added energy effect.

This is how one layer of shadows out of the 2 looks. This one has no soft edges. More seen on the left side of the pic, at the inside of the hood.

The other layer of shadow is the brush I use a lot. Especially noticable at the backgrounds of my pictures. It has a pattern and can be used as a gradient; the more I use and press it, the darker the colour will be.

This is how the 2 layers of shadows combined look like. It has more depth at the bottom part of the hoodie, seen on the right side, it's more darker there.

This shows only the lighter parts of the drawing (no shadows). I've also realised I forgot to use 2 layers of brighter parts like I usually do. So the final picture only has one, instead of 2. xd
This was the gradient light layer. The 2nd wouldda been the one with sharper edged lighter surfaces. (altho I think it looks good enough, so no need for a 2nd)

This is the final result, every layer put together. It's the same picture as the very first on this post. Shadows, lights, colours together also used Layer effects at some (especially for the shadows and the energy effect).