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Here's a more in-depth description of the steps:
Step 1: You'll want the background to be a darker layer than the circles, usually. Bubbles are reflective, which means they'll appear lighter.
Step 2: It's okay if the rings aren't completely symmetrical. Sometimes bubbles' edges appear "invisible" or very thin. The colors you add in the next layers will help reestablish them.
Step 3: Same thing here - it's okay to have them appear asymmetrical. Just don't erase & blur too much to where it doesn't look like a sphere!
Step 4: You can use violet or whatever color your environment's objects are. Try to place it in a way that looks like it's hugging the bubble - no flat lines or sharp angles.
Step 5: Blur the inner edges of the blobs, but not the outer edge, or else it'll make your bubble look cloudy and dull rather than shiny and wet. (Works best if blur tool is large!)
Step 6: Repeat the process, but on the opposite side of the first blobs.
Step 7: Again, blur the inner edges, but not the outer edges.
Step 8: Here, you can make the lightest-colored reflections smaller or in different shapes (like a vague resemblance of a window, for instance). These will be a reflection of your strongest light source. You'll want it to appear sharper and brighter in value compared to any of the other colors to really give off that shiny, reflective surface.
Step 9: Only blur a little bit of the outer edges, if you must. Don't blur it all!
Step 10: This part's fun, but it can mess up the directions your reflections are in if you're particular about that. To avoid doing that, rather than rotating the bubbles like I did, simply copy & pasting the bubbles as they are and adjusting their sizes will still allow you to add multiple layers of bubbles!

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I was adding some bubbles to an outfit design thinking it'd take some trial and error, but it was surprisingly easy! So, I wanted to share my method with you guys before I forget how I did it. This technique works great for when you want to quickly add bubbles in a design concept. You can play around with the colors that are used (like the violet and cyan) since it's mostly the values that matter (light on dark). Don't forget to touch up some of the edges and reflections once you're done, too! Mine turned out kind of sloppy without doing that, as you can see.

Lastly, please keep in mind that this isn't the "best" or most accurate method for approaching bubbles. If you want to be accurate, you should definitely do photo studies instead.

Hope this helps someone out there! ♡ If you have any questions or requests for future quick-and-easy tutorials, feel free to ask!

P.S. Sorry for the sucky looking layout. x_x Graphic design isn't my strong point for things like this, and I only wanted to make sure it was legible and easy to follow. lol

Description
Here's a more in-depth description of the steps:
Step 1: You'll want the background to be a darker layer than the circles, usually. Bubbles are reflective, which means they'll appear lighter.
Step 2: It's okay if the rings aren't completely symmetrical. Sometimes bubbles' edges appear "invisible" or very thin. The colors you add in the next layers will help reestablish them.
Step 3: Same thing here - it's okay to have them appear asymmetrical. Just don't erase & blur too much to where it doesn't look like a sphere!
Step 4: You can use violet or whatever color your environment's objects are. Try to place it in a way that looks like it's hugging the bubble - no flat lines or sharp angles.
Step 5: Blur the inner edges of the blobs, but not the outer edge, or else it'll make your bubble look cloudy and dull rather than shiny and wet. (Works best if blur tool is large!)
Step 6: Repeat the process, but on the opposite side of the first blobs.
Step 7: Again, blur the inner edges, but not the outer edges.
Step 8: Here, you can make the lightest-colored reflections smaller or in different shapes (like a vague resemblance of a window, for instance). These will be a reflection of your strongest light source. You'll want it to appear sharper and brighter in value compared to any of the other colors to really give off that shiny, reflective surface.
Step 9: Only blur a little bit of the outer edges, if you must. Don't blur it all!
Step 10: This part's fun, but it can mess up the directions your reflections are in if you're particular about that. To avoid doing that, rather than rotating the bubbles like I did, simply copy & pasting the bubbles as they are and adjusting their sizes will still allow you to add multiple layers of bubbles!

- - -

I was adding some bubbles to an outfit design thinking it'd take some trial and error, but it was surprisingly easy! So, I wanted to share my method with you guys before I forget how I did it. This technique works great for when you want to quickly add bubbles in a design concept. You can play around with the colors that are used (like the violet and cyan) since it's mostly the values that matter (light on dark). Don't forget to touch up some of the edges and reflections once you're done, too! Mine turned out kind of sloppy without doing that, as you can see.

Lastly, please keep in mind that this isn't the "best" or most accurate method for approaching bubbles. If you want to be accurate, you should definitely do photo studies instead.

Hope this helps someone out there! ♡ If you have any questions or requests for future quick-and-easy tutorials, feel free to ask!

P.S. Sorry for the sucky looking layout. x_x Graphic design isn't my strong point for things like this, and I only wanted to make sure it was legible and easy to follow. lol