An Otter's Good Day | Drawing Tutorial Steps

I think he's gonna be one happy ott with that feesh.

This is a birthday gift for Ark_Otter on Twitter that I did recently. This was a fun drawing to do. It is also a simple tutorial to follow.

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Drawing Details

ART CATEGORY	DETAIL
Art Medium	Digital: Krita
Art Tool	Wacom Cintiq 13 HD
Art Style	Toony
Level of Detail	Flat Color
Background Detail	Simple
Size	Full Page
Dimensions	Portrait: 2560 x 2048
Date Completed	2018-11-09

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My Layer Layout

• Foreground
  • Lineart layer
  • Folder for "Colors"
    • Quaternary Color layer
    • Tertiary Color layer
    • Secondary Color layer
    • Base/Primary Color layer
• Background Shadow
• Background
• Sketches
  • Extra Sketch layer
  • Fine Sketch layer
  • Rough Sketch layer
  • Canvas Background layer (neutral color like grey)

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• Canvas Prep/Rough Sketch

  As always, I start off with a neutral color like grey for the canvas background color. Then in the rough sketch layer, I sketch up basic shapes and the pose.

• Fine Sketch

  After the roughs are done, I sketch in finer detail of sketching over it in the fine sketch layer.

• Lineart

  After the sketch was to my liking, I drew in the linearts over the sketch in the lineart layer. If you done majority of your edits in the sketch phase, then you won't have to worry much about editing in this phase.

• Base Color

  Select areas outside the perimeters of the character with the contiguous (wizard) tool, invert the selection, then fill in the area with the character's primary color in the base/primary color layer.

You select those areas then invert the selection so to have less gaps in your base color due to the cracks and corners inside your linearts.

• Detail Colors

  After you got your base color, simply add the detail colors in the color layers for the character. Then mask them down to the base color.

Add in some floor shading and a simple background pattern. And then the pic is completed!

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Animation of Step-by-Step Progress

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Thank you for follow this simple process and enjoy the drawing!

Ark © FA: Ark_Otter
Artwork by @bleuxwolf

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