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General process using paintool sai

lineart: Make sure the lineart is clean enough so that when you put down the base colors there is little struggle. I generally start out with a rough sketch to get the basics down then do the lineart on top. Though you can simply start out with a fairly clean sketch then just erase all the unnecessary lines. I always just do what feels right for me at the time but you may prefer one technique or the other.

Flats:This is fairly straightforward but make sure that each item is on a different layer. Meaning the hair has it's own the layer,as does the skin and so on.On this particular piece that step didn't matter so much as there are not the many subjects but Id highly recommend doing this on larger pieces,it will save you from many heartaches.

Shadows:again,fairly straightforward. You can clip the shadow groupsto the base layers that you prepared before,making this step very easy to deal with.In this step I also fix in mistakes that I see. In this case I saw that neck was a little to wide and touched it up as well as a few other minor things. You can wait till the end stuff for this but I prefer editing things sooner rather than later but again,that is just me.

finishing touches:In this step I revise anything that I missed as well as color the line art by way of attaching a clipping mask and simply coloring over it.I also paint over any unnecessary lines ,especially in the hair.Then,I apply an overlay layer and set it to about 10-20%. Brightening anything that is needed as well as adding some color variety. You can also apply a multiply layer to darken anything that needs to be, well, darker .

If you have any questions feel free to ask. And if anyone would be interested in brush settings just let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for reading.

Description
General process using paintool sai

lineart: Make sure the lineart is clean enough so that when you put down the base colors there is little struggle. I generally start out with a rough sketch to get the basics down then do the lineart on top. Though you can simply start out with a fairly clean sketch then just erase all the unnecessary lines. I always just do what feels right for me at the time but you may prefer one technique or the other.

Flats:This is fairly straightforward but make sure that each item is on a different layer. Meaning the hair has it's own the layer,as does the skin and so on.On this particular piece that step didn't matter so much as there are not the many subjects but Id highly recommend doing this on larger pieces,it will save you from many heartaches.

Shadows:again,fairly straightforward. You can clip the shadow groupsto the base layers that you prepared before,making this step very easy to deal with.In this step I also fix in mistakes that I see. In this case I saw that neck was a little to wide and touched it up as well as a few other minor things. You can wait till the end stuff for this but I prefer editing things sooner rather than later but again,that is just me.

finishing touches:In this step I revise anything that I missed as well as color the line art by way of attaching a clipping mask and simply coloring over it.I also paint over any unnecessary lines ,especially in the hair.Then,I apply an overlay layer and set it to about 10-20%. Brightening anything that is needed as well as adding some color variety. You can also apply a multiply layer to darken anything that needs to be, well, darker .

If you have any questions feel free to ask. And if anyone would be interested in brush settings just let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for reading.