My painting process is just the same as my drawing process. Now we have everything under control, we can add final touches like gradients, particles, and these kind of environmental effects. Be sure to follow the previous light and shadow you've painted on the background. Having the character's main colors selected we may start adding details, like blush on their cheeks, textures on the clothes, and lights and shadows. We can keep adding little details into the background at this point, but just little things. If you are using Photoshop CC - download Kyles Megapack, it is free with a CC subscription, and try the Drawing Box - Graphite Control or Graphite control 2 brush. Once we have the background settled, we can start setting the main colors of the character. Once we have this, we should start painting the shadows and main details of background - don't start first with the character, we must paint from bottom to front. Loved by creative pros and aspiring artists alike, Procreate is the leading creative application made for iPad. I'm going for warm colors, so first of all I paint the background with a couple of earthy tones. The first step would be to set the areas of our palette.

This way we are going to be sure to keep our traditional line-art intact. The most important step here is to create a layer on top of the picture and set it to Multiply.

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