Art - Drawing COCOON, original villain (steps included) tutorial

Hello!

Today I drawn another villain design, starting soon with the good guys, this all is a part of a bigger project, can't reveal it yet. There are really a lot of options with these, still figuring it out sincerely :D

Inspiration is tearing things apart these days, using my sick days off work to produce as much as I can because there will not be enough time to make these when job kicks back in. That really makes me sad since these really take a lot of time and effort to make, but I love making them.

Anyway, here's the illustration:

I drew him on my personal computer using the Photoshop software and a drawing pad, from head without references. Imagined him as a bug like creature that uses it's cocoon as a weapon of choice, biological ability of sorts.

This chap might be an illustration before a long pause, I will continue to illustrate as much as I can but in different ways more approachable while on work breaks and lil free time :D

Here is the process of making it/tutorial:

Giff of the process:

And steps:

Straight up sketch here, figuring out the design

Polishing the design

Digging into deeper black lines

Working on the separate areas and finishing up

Finalizing the details before color

Putting a little grey behind it to make a base for color

Colored it here in basic colors

Adding lights and shadows, starting to work with background

Working on lights, adding textures, fixing up lines, doing splashes and drops with black and white, working on the eyes, putting a stamp on it

And for the final piece, decided to tone down the colors, went a bit in with reduction, and that's it :D

Hope you found this interesting or somewhat helpful, have a wonderful day!