Aurica (STEP BY STEP)

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This is the drawing steps of my artwork below


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Steps:
1. Sketch. Sketch the pose, composition, and design.
2. Lineart. Just do the tedious lining.
3. Base Color. Fill in base colors, each color was in separated layers.
4. Shading & Lighting. When shading this, I use a rather medium to dark value color for shading so the lighting can pop out later. I use normal layer for shading & various other layers for lighting.
5. Lineart Coloring & BG. I color the lineart. Try to use unusual color for some lineart part to give a surprise. Also I do shading & lighting for the background here. I give some orange on the background for...I don't know...kind of balancing the coldness of the artwork maybe, it has too much blue. And it makes some nice planet atmosphere look lol.
6. Finishing. Add some effect and do background detailing. Give some heavy glow using color dodge and add(glow). I also smoothing the character by duplicate the character layer twice, clip them on previous character layer, gaussian blur it, make it in screen & overlay mode, then adjust the opacity until it looks nice. The last thing is adjusting the color using color balance, tone curve, and level adjustment.

*throughout the steps, I often fix some mistake + adjust the hue, saturation, and luminosity.

Software: MangaStudio EX 5
Drawing Tablet: Huion 680TF

I hope it's useful <3

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