Chelly (STEP BY STEP)

This is the drawing steps of my artwork below

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The Steps

1. Rough Sketch. Sketching the idea. Using some thick brush and max zoom was at 18,2%, the focus was composition and pose.
2. Detail Sketch. This time I fill the detail with a smaller brush. I zoom up to 50%...I guess.
3. Lineart. I use 10pt G-Pen brush in MangaStudio with the lowest stabilizer. Mostly stay at 66,6% zoom.
4. Base Color. Fill the base color. Each part of color have its own layer.
5. Shading. I lock the layer then start shading for each part. I use combination of 'Oil Paint', 'G-Pen', 'Blend', 'Soft Airbrush' on MangaStudio. I also make the lineart as a 'multiply' then coloring it.
6. Lighting. For each color I make a new layer the clip it on top of the shading. Most light color I use was just yellowish-white to make it simple. I also brush some skin color to clothes to make it looks nice.
7. BG. Start drawing some random BG. The typical random square shape hehe. Adding some gradient here and there to make the character fit into the BG.
8. Glow. Adding glow to the light and some shiny object.
9. Dreamy Effect. I duplicate the character layer, gaussian blur it, make it as a 'soft light' layer, then lowering its opacity. Before that I do the same to the lineart, except i leave the lineart as a 'multiply' layer.
10. Finishing. Do some tone curve, level & color balance adjustment...I make it a bit orange-ish (yellow & red) in mid-tone.

All steps done in MangaStudio EX 5.
Good luck <3

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