IM LATE!! but I’ve finally made my contribution to the “life is too long and too stressful as is to worry about clothes” thing that’s going on right now
Here’s the sketch. I usually have a bunch of references open while I sketch to make sure things are on model (just my style, you do you)
After the sketch is finished, I use the lasso tool and just select the entire silhouette and fill it in with a solid color on a layer underneath the sketch
I turn the opacity of the sketch down and put it on the “multiply” blending mode and then alpha lock the flat color layer and color in the flats
I do most of my flats for each character on one layer haha
After the flats, I add some basic cel shading with a shadow layer set to “multiply” and a highlights layer set to “overlay”. I toggle between selecting the flat colors from the flats layer to make sure I stay ‘in the lines’ of the body parts for the shading
Then I start rendering everything on a new layer. Tbh I do most all of, if not all of my rendering/painting on one layer lol here’s a shot of the sort of first pass. Usually I’ll hit the “select pixels” option on the flats layer and then press Ctrl+H to hide the selection visual, just to make sure I’m staying on the character when I paint. A lot of times, I’ll also go back to the flats layer and select specific body parts to just paint those.
And then here’s the final! Once I’m done painting, I will duplicate and merge the layers and add adjustments layers and fix some color balance stuff
I might add him into a scene sometime, but for now I just gave him a drop shadow
Thought this would be cool to post because I love seeing process stuff, so I hope you all enjoy!
I use Adobe Photoshop, but these blending modes and tools are available in most digital art programs
![candycatstuffs:bastard [affectionate]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1fe6896abc17cd872d794b9fd34b04c1/a4152ebdef20b67c-14/s1280x1920/2926854fe576fce6333ff3cdb0bb5cb3fcee2cbe.png "candycatstuffs:bastard [affectionate]")
