Pocket Wolf | Drawing Tutorial Steps

Let's go! We're going for a ride.

This is semi-realistic full detail comic commission for Kanzadawuff on Twitter. This post is a little different since as you can see, it's a comic page. lol But as you're going to see, the process is still mostly like the other drawings.

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Drawing Details

ART CATEGORY	DETAIL
Art Medium	Digital: Krita
Art Tool	Wacom Cintiq 13 HD
Art Style	Semi-Realistic
Level of Detail	Full Detail - Smooth Shaded
Background Detail	N/A
Size	Comic: Full Page
Dimensions	Portrait: 2560 x 2048
Date Completed	2018-11-13

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My Layer Layout

• Panel Borders
• Foreground
  • Text layer
  • Lineart layer
  • Shading layer
  • Folder for "Colors"
    • Folder for 1st Character Colors (Folder will be masked to Base Color.)
    • Folder for 2nd Character Colors (Folder will be masked to Base Color.)
    • Base Color layer
• 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

  I start off as usual in the canvas background layer with a neutral background like grey as seen below. Then in the panel borders layer, draw in the panel borders. Use the rectangle tool to make this easier. Afterwards, I sketch up rough basic shapes and poses.

• Fine Sketch

  After the roughs, I simply just sketch a more detail sketch over the rough sketch in the fine sketch layer.

• Lineart

  Once I got client approval on the sketch, I drew in linearts over the sketch in the lineart layer.

• Base Color

  With the contiguous (wizard) tool, select areas outside the characters' perimeters and invert the selection then fill the selection with a neutral color like grey. (A different grey than your canvas background.)

Tip: You'll have your "grow/shrink selection" in the tools panel set on "2" and at least for me, I have the "fuzziness" set on "20". Either before or after selecting your areas, turn off your lineart layer temporarily to select your panel borders by themselves then turn back on the linearts. When you select the borders, adjust your "grow/shrink selection" to "0" to select only enough of the line as needed and not overlap the selection into the perimeters of the characters.

• Primary Color

  Add in the characters' primary colors in their respective folders.

Then mask the colors down to the base color.

• Detail Colors

  In their detail color layers, add in the rest of the colors for the characters in their respective folders.

• Text

  Here, I just add the text for this in the text layer.

• Shading

  Turn off the character color folders temporary (that way you can see your shadows easier to work with) and draw in shadows in the shadow layer. Turn the opacity for the layer down to 50% (make the layer "grain merge" if you want better blend of the shadow with the colors). And this time, I smooth the shadows instead of having a hard edge.

• Misc. Details/Final Check/Final Result

  Then turn back on the color folders and check over the details of the comic for errors or missing details...

...and then you're done!

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Animation of Step-by-Step Progress

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Thank you and I hope you enjoy the little comic and tutorial!

Kanza © Tw: kanzadawolf
Tiberius © FA: tiberius7
Artwork by @bleuxwolf

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