Pizza Gathering | And Drawing Tutorial Steps!

Nothing better than sharing pizza with friends.

This is a flat color Toony style art commission for TigertheMeerkat on Twitter. For this posting, I figure I could start showing the steps that I take to achieve the final resulting pics you see me posting. I'll do this for now on starting with my newest pics so that means for my older pics if I post them him, you'll probably won't see the steps.

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Note: These are steps for digital artworks. At the time of this posting I am using Krita art program. I sometimes us PaintTool Sai like I used to use a lot.

• Canvas Prep/Rough Sketch

  I first start off by having my canvas with a neutral color like a grey background to be able to see the colors I will be using for sketching and linearting easier. I start off with 4 layers (background color layer, two sketch layers, and an extra layer in case need for extra sketching) I then start off with basic rough sketches of the shape of the characters, items, and sometimes the background if it is a detailed or complex background. I sketch in blue so it can be a lighter color when I draw over it, as least for me.

• Fine Sketch

  Then I go over the rough sketches with a finer sketch. It may look like it is a lineart but it is not I assure you. lol This can be one of the toughest and biggest process for me because this is where putting the details of your or the client's idea comes to play more so than when you was just drawing the basic shapes in the rough sketch. So there would be lots of editing in this phase. For SKETCH or COLOR SKETCH drawings, this would be the final or second to final step (respectively) for the drawing with the color sketch only needing, well....coloring!

• Lineart

  After I complete my fine sketch and it is to my satisfaction or if it is a commission, it is to the client's approval, then this is a where I begin my linearts which will of course be in another layer as will the be the same assumption for the rest of the steps. This is a process too as I want to get my lines looking good but if I did my fine sketches right, this process is almost like just tracing over the sketch line with maybe some little differences here and there if I feel like I want to correct something I think looks off.

• Base Color

  After my linearts, I then color in the linearts with a darker neutral color than my background. This is be my base color to layer masks over. Sometimes I just use the primary color of whatever character or item I am drawing as the base color if it is the only thing in the drawing at least in the foreground. I use a wizard selection tool to select in the lines (or select outside the lines then invert the selection to cover what I need to color into with the least amount of gaps.) Then I touch up any gaps I see.

• Primary Colors/Masking Colors

  I add primary colors for each character/item I plan on coloring in detail and do each color in its own layer, and...

...then I mask the layers so that the colors take into the shape of the base color. No need to be exactly perfect to how you draw this in, except in spots where you want to avoid certain colors from overlapping.

• From there, I add in other color details to the characters or items.

Just like the descriptions here, as you can see the process gets easier as you go along. It just may get more tedious sometimes the longer you draw on a single pic. Breaks are a good thing. lol

• Detail Colors

  Here, I just add the colors to the miscellaneous items such as the table and pizza. If I'm doing a FULL DETAIL drawing, I would be adding shadows and highlights to the foreground after this phase. But that will be for another pic that requires it!

• Background Lineart

  I can either fade the foreground a bit or turn on the sketch layer first, then I use that as a guide as I begin to work on the background.

• Background Color

  I color in the background and again, if this was a FULL DETAIL pic, I would be adding shading and highlights to the background like I would do with the foreground.

• Final Check/Final Result

  Then finally, I turn back up the layers that were faded. I look over the pic to make any final edits that need to be done (like the chair leg in this pic was edited near the end for one example) or find any details that are missing (which even a few I may not even catch the tiniest missed detail until after it has been posted. lol)

And voilà! My whole process of drawing...at least for flat color pics. ;) And of course, depending on whatever program you use, how you achieve these tasks may be a little different.

Hope you enjoy the artwork and the view of my drawing process!

Tiger © Tw: FelixDaWolf
Len © Tw: thebeeks
Turq © Tw: TurqGoat
Artwork by @Bleuxwolf

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Interested more in my works or interested in me drawing you a pic, feel free to also check out my personal portfolio/commission site. Arts by Bleux