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Description
Full piece here:
fav.me/d79tqpz

1- Thumbnail
Just a very small doodle to help get the pose out of my head and onto the canvas. I usually draw a couple of these before I make one I like

2- Sketch
A sketch, based off the thumbnail. As you can see, there's just a few changes in the pose between the large sketch and the thumbnail, as well as corrected anatomy. At this point, I also played with how I wanted the lighting to look: sta.sh/01nmxbqr6bkp I asked around for opinions on lighting, then settled on the last one, lighting from below.

3- Lines
Lines! One of my favorite parts. I use the Pen tool in Paint Tool SAI, set to 2.6 px for the main lines, and 1.0 px for the smaller detail lines. I also made further corrections to the anatomy, and changed the position of the tail.

4- Flats
Time for colors! Every color has it's own layer, just in case I need to edit or change them later.

5- Shading
I hide the colors under a base grey, and then shade on a layer above it. I use a multiply layer for my shading, and I only use shades of grey. This is just preliminary shading, to help me get a good idea of how it will look. It is rough and unrefined at this point.

6- Moar Shading
Just refining, adding value. I had to increase the contrast a little too. I tend to remove the grey base every now and again to check how the shading looks with the colors. My shading is all on one layer, but every now and again I needed to make a new layer to add more shadows. I always add new shading layers to the main shading layer, though.

7- Colorize Shading
Grey is a gross color for shading! I colorized the shading by clipping a layer of dark red/purple set to Screen mode on it. I also increased the contrast again. Adding color to the shading helps the final product look more full, I think.

8- Highlights
I have two light sources, a strong one from below, and a faint one from above. The lighting from below is yellow, above is blue. I put the yellow highlight layer under the shading, and the blue highlight layer above.
I love using yellow for highlights c: It also looks a little more natural when working with blacks on the base coloring. It's a little tricky though, it's easy to make it too bright. I had to adjust it a little bit while working.
Oh, and my highlight layer is set to 'Lumi and Shade'. I have a modded version of paint tool sai :v In photoshop, the closest to 'Lumi and Shade' you can get it Color Dodge- Lighter or something like that.
Normally I would add an overlay layer with soft white highlights, but it was unneeded here.

9- Gradient overlay
Just a nice blue-to-orange overlay to give a little mood to the colors.

10- Sketchy Background
I have no idea how to do backgrounds, but this was my starting point. It's very rough, and rather flat. Also dull. Very dull.

11- Refine
I brought it over to Photoshop to refine. There's a lot more useful variety in Photoshop's brushes than SAI's. And many more filters, including blurs~ Which I needed. Most of my 'refining' included blurring and adding more highlights/shadows to the background. I thank my boyfriend for putting up with me bothering him for help hehe

12- Refine more & Done
Brightened up and blurred the dust in the foreground, blurred and slightly darkened the clouds in the background. And that's all I felt like doing with the background 'cause I was really getting tired of working on it hah. Done!

S'it.

Description
Full piece here:
fav.me/d79tqpz

1- Thumbnail
Just a very small doodle to help get the pose out of my head and onto the canvas. I usually draw a couple of these before I make one I like

2- Sketch
A sketch, based off the thumbnail. As you can see, there's just a few changes in the pose between the large sketch and the thumbnail, as well as corrected anatomy. At this point, I also played with how I wanted the lighting to look: sta.sh/01nmxbqr6bkp I asked around for opinions on lighting, then settled on the last one, lighting from below.

3- Lines
Lines! One of my favorite parts. I use the Pen tool in Paint Tool SAI, set to 2.6 px for the main lines, and 1.0 px for the smaller detail lines. I also made further corrections to the anatomy, and changed the position of the tail.

4- Flats
Time for colors! Every color has it's own layer, just in case I need to edit or change them later.

5- Shading
I hide the colors under a base grey, and then shade on a layer above it. I use a multiply layer for my shading, and I only use shades of grey. This is just preliminary shading, to help me get a good idea of how it will look. It is rough and unrefined at this point.

6- Moar Shading
Just refining, adding value. I had to increase the contrast a little too. I tend to remove the grey base every now and again to check how the shading looks with the colors. My shading is all on one layer, but every now and again I needed to make a new layer to add more shadows. I always add new shading layers to the main shading layer, though.

7- Colorize Shading
Grey is a gross color for shading! I colorized the shading by clipping a layer of dark red/purple set to Screen mode on it. I also increased the contrast again. Adding color to the shading helps the final product look more full, I think.

8- Highlights
I have two light sources, a strong one from below, and a faint one from above. The lighting from below is yellow, above is blue. I put the yellow highlight layer under the shading, and the blue highlight layer above.
I love using yellow for highlights c: It also looks a little more natural when working with blacks on the base coloring. It's a little tricky though, it's easy to make it too bright. I had to adjust it a little bit while working.
Oh, and my highlight layer is set to 'Lumi and Shade'. I have a modded version of paint tool sai :v In photoshop, the closest to 'Lumi and Shade' you can get it Color Dodge- Lighter or something like that.
Normally I would add an overlay layer with soft white highlights, but it was unneeded here.

9- Gradient overlay
Just a nice blue-to-orange overlay to give a little mood to the colors.

10- Sketchy Background
I have no idea how to do backgrounds, but this was my starting point. It's very rough, and rather flat. Also dull. Very dull.

11- Refine
I brought it over to Photoshop to refine. There's a lot more useful variety in Photoshop's brushes than SAI's. And many more filters, including blurs~ Which I needed. Most of my 'refining' included blurring and adding more highlights/shadows to the background. I thank my boyfriend for putting up with me bothering him for help hehe

12- Refine more & Done
Brightened up and blurred the dust in the foreground, blurred and slightly darkened the clouds in the background. And that's all I felt like doing with the background 'cause I was really getting tired of working on it hah. Done!

S'it.