1 Aug 2019, 22:22

This past year I changed up my style to keeping my line work and inking it. Also not spending so much time noodling on painting. I sorta miss working in my old process so I am taking this past weeks JimBob Prompt since it hit home with me after adopting a standard poodle a few weeks back. I am going to share my process but I am also open to critiques on it. Please feel free to let loose. I don't always feel I get the most honest feedback from people.

Step 1: thumbnails/rough sketch... I didn't save any of this because I usually delete all the thumbs when I find one I like. Then I rough it out.

Step 2: Drop the opacity down to about 60% and clean it up meanwhile erasing some of the rough but keeping some to give it some life.

evil_poodle_wip1.jpg

Step 3: Merge those two layers together and throw in some local color under the lines layer. Thinking about light source a little but mainly just thinking color at this point.

evil_poodle_wip2.jpg

Step 4: Adding some shadow and lighting. I add a multiple layer and a overlay layer. This is where I really push where the light will be coming from.

evil_poodle_wip3.jpg

Working on step 5 where I start to render out the forms and paint over the lines. Then step 6 is pushing the shadow and light.

With that, please give me your feedback. What needs to change? What works? What doesn't?