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Hello! This is another step by step thingy for this piece: fav.me/d8nz0q3
Let me quickly explain what's happening in each frame ^^

1> Very very messy sketch to get down the character overall look, pose and hair. Reference for head and light used: fav.me/d8ki5zs

2> On a seperate latyer Uunder the sketch i lay down the skin and hair colors. I really liked her face shape here but i wanted to keep her characteristics as close to my cousin's as possible so i had to change it later on

3> The two layers are now merged and i start reshaping her face and painting on top of the lines

4> Still on the same layer, i polish the skin and hair a bit. I keep it rather rough in quick portaits like this. I like the effect more overall but that's just personal preference.

5> Here experimenting with butterfly placement and compotition a little bit. Now that i'm looking at it next to the finished version i kinda like it more lol. So here's something i also learned from my "step by step" xP. Butterflies were drawn on a seperate layer

6>Time for the glowy part. I used Luminosity layer and painted on top of the butterflies and hair bits. I messed up with this step a lot but mostly because i was not that confident with "glowing" effects on sai but i think it's okayish

Addition notes: I forgot to mention that the blue bg was on it's own layer from start to finish.
Also i did this in sai so sorry if it's the photoshop category. For some unknown reason i don't see a sai category. What's up with that?

Description
Hello! This is another step by step thingy for this piece: fav.me/d8nz0q3
Let me quickly explain what's happening in each frame ^^

1> Very very messy sketch to get down the character overall look, pose and hair. Reference for head and light used: fav.me/d8ki5zs

2> On a seperate latyer Uunder the sketch i lay down the skin and hair colors. I really liked her face shape here but i wanted to keep her characteristics as close to my cousin's as possible so i had to change it later on

3> The two layers are now merged and i start reshaping her face and painting on top of the lines

4> Still on the same layer, i polish the skin and hair a bit. I keep it rather rough in quick portaits like this. I like the effect more overall but that's just personal preference.

5> Here experimenting with butterfly placement and compotition a little bit. Now that i'm looking at it next to the finished version i kinda like it more lol. So here's something i also learned from my "step by step" xP. Butterflies were drawn on a seperate layer

6>Time for the glowy part. I used Luminosity layer and painted on top of the butterflies and hair bits. I messed up with this step a lot but mostly because i was not that confident with "glowing" effects on sai but i think it's okayish

Addition notes: I forgot to mention that the blue bg was on it's own layer from start to finish.
Also i did this in sai so sorry if it's the photoshop category. For some unknown reason i don't see a sai category. What's up with that?