I come back with some of my step by step digital illustration process. You know that my Macbook pro late 2011 was broke with logic board damage and its come to life with a reflow but last week is come to dead again. Well for this post I used a old laptop: a mac book pro 2006 that has capacity to runs Adobe Illustrator CS5. So the digital artwork I am going to show you in this post was made with a lapto of almost 12 years of life (incredible, dont you think?). I hope to save money with this post on steemit in that way buy a new laptop and create more wonderful illustrations. I really appreciate all your support and inspiring comments.
Well, lets start.
I made a sketch. This time the main character is a girl with strong expression face. This step is basic, rough lines and simple shapes.
I not make always the same steps. This time first I applied a gradient color background to get inspiring about color harmony.
Here I used flat colors into each part of character: one layer for skin, another one for hair, other for eyes and so on. It is just a reference colors.
I pplied color gradient into sketch layer and also I used some shadows to whole illustration.
I decided to use a black color on some part of contours of character and use some light on face, hand and arm. I added some shadows on hair.
blending of shadows and face details.
I realized that my composition was going all in on the same harmony color, I mean almost all the composition as a pink and purple tones so I decided to change the gradient color background to make huge contrast between it and character.
More blending of shadows and face details. I added some light on hair.
You know that I am not good making backgrounds. It is something that I would like to improve as a digital artist; how to make a wonderfull landscape. For this time I tried to make something different on my composition. The next process and steps are experimentals. In this step I added some clouds.
After I was playing with some texture brush I saw the posibilities. Here I applied some stains to create a sense of environment.
I use a tree brush and another details like star and birds on the sky. Also I decided to add a fashion tattoo on the character arm and well it is finally finish!.... I know that I could have done better but I promise to make it in the next digital step by step work, nevertheless it was a good digital practice and the final work was good!. What do you think? Do you like this artwork? Do you have some suggest for my next digital step by step post?
Here I am upload a .gif file that show the step by step the process work. I hope you like it.
Also, a picture of myself and my old mac book pro 2006. Do you belive that lapto has 12 years and its still Works!!!!!? Incredible!
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Media: Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Wacom Bamboo.
