Look! No Pants! | And Tutorial

We're toons. We don't need pants!

This was a YCH (Your-Character-Here) commission for Chudlight on twitter. I'm going to show you the steps I've taken for this particular drawing.

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• Canvas Prep/Rough Sketch

  Start the canvas with a neutral color background (like grey). Have a total of 4 layers to start over with. These will be for (in order from bottom to top) the canvas background layer, a rough sketch layer, a fine sketch layer, and an extra sketch layer.

  • Canvas Background Layer - neutral colored to be able to easily see sketches that will be over this layer.
  • Rough Sketch Layer - to draw the basic rough shapes of characters and items.
  • Fine Sketch Layer - to sketch the characters and items in more detail.
  • Extra sketch Layer - in case extra sketching needs to be done on another layer for easier editing.

  After the layers are setup, just draw in basic shapes of the character you want to draw in your rough sketch layer.

• Fine Sketch Pt. 1

  A little change up from usual, here the shapes are traced in the fine sketch layer with not much detail since a potential character was yet to be determined at the time to present this to potential bidders.

And then basic color was added in to define the figure. Another layer can be added for this color to easily edit it out later. Also added (not shown in this example) were bidding details on the pic. At this point, this pic was posted and advertise for anyone to bid on.

• Fine Sketch Pt. 2

  After a bidder was determined, turn off or delete that basic color layer as it is not needed anymore. Then in another layer over the first fine sketch, draw in a fine sketch of the character in more detail over the shapes the other fine sketch. (This is where you can use your extra layer to draw over the fine sketch layer.)

• Lineart

  Once the fine sketch is completed, create another for the lineart and simply trace over the sketch with a lineart.

• Base Color

  Create layers for your base/primary color and layers for the other detail colors. With a wizard selection tool, select areas outside of the character and then invert the selection. Do this process like so instead of just selecting areas within the character to reduce the amount of tiny gaps in the base color. Then add in the base color, or in this case since it's just the character in the pic, the character's primary color in the base/primary color layer.

Since the character's color is too dark to work with and the linearts are hard to see, just adjust the opacity until the color is lighter to where the linearts show better.

• Detail Colors

  Add color details over the base/primary color in the other color layers. If wizard selection is still on, the colors will remain inside the base. If not, just mask the color details to the base color.

Adjust the opacity back to normal and check the details.

• Shading

  Adjust all the colors (or if all these colors under a single folder which is recommended) to a lower opacity.

Create a layer for shading and adjust its opacity halfway. (You can use Grain Merge in Krita so the shading blends the color better.) Then just add the shadows, take note of where your light source is.

Then adjust the color layers (not the shading layer) opacity back to normal.

• Final Check/Final Result

  Create another layer under all the other foreground layers and add some shading under the character. A simple background can be added at this point, but for this one, a background was decided it was not needed.

Then check over any details or such and the drawing is completed!

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Here is an animation of all the steps.

Once again, hope you enjoy the work and the drawing tutorial!

Mahler © Tw: Chudlight
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