STEP BY STEP // 1 million (Patreon)

Here’s the process for an older piece! I got a message in my DM’s asking for the steps of this one and I figured I would just make a post out of it.

The first step was a scanned sketch from my sketchbook, and if you’re curious, you can watch the tour for that sketchbook here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sketchbook-tour-34974271

I then took it into photoshop to add color, which I did by painting some colors on a multiply layer, and also modifying the colors of the scanned sketch to a pinkish color. By the third step, I had merged it all together and started painting over the whole thing. This process is pretty much the ‘sculpting with color’ workflow that I talk about in my latest tutorial (https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-with-53897099) - sketch, rough color, change the sketch color, and then merge it all and start painting from there.

This process is also a pretty good example of how I sometimes change things late in the process. On the 5th image, you can see that I moved her head up and made it smaller, which changed the proportions completely. I did this by just selecting the head area with the lasso tool, copy/pasting it on a new layer, and then moving/resizing it until it looked right. After that, I just painted over any messy edges until it was blended in to the painting.

I did some of the rendering for this one on the iPad in Procreate, mainly because I was travelling and it was more convenient. I still have the process video, but the annoying thing is that you don’t see a lot happening most of the time because I was zoomed in and just polishing up tiny details. In that sense, a screen recording says a lot more about the process, since it shows that I’m zoomed in. If you want to watch it anyways, you can find it here: https://vimeo.com/586224283/014ef47cfd

If any of you are interested in seeing the process of an older piece, let me know! You can comment below or send a DM. I’m always happy to share my process :)