Steem Cartoon : Key to Final Art (Flying Squirrel)

I was in the midst of my animation series when suddenly the steemit bug caught me and I started doing this instead...my partner @rambai will be so mad with me if he finds out. I am quite sure he will coz he always upvotes me. But what the heck, here goes...

I got the idea accidentally when I was doing a sketch for the background of a forest. The brush that I use is flat rought. Ther colour combination is olive green, green yellow, light seagreen and navy blue.

Here, I try to balance the colour to get a deep contrast from light to dark. I use a lot of infusion of darkgoldenrod to create a hot colour as a focal point in my piece.

I will start the detailing work on the leaves and the tree trunk.

I will use the colour balance tool to get a cool colour.

Above the layer of cold colour again I utilise the effect layer colour balance to increase the hot colours. This layer I will subsequently erase by using an erasor tool on the parts that I would require some cool colours.

I then introduce the character to get the background feel of what I had just created. I use the blur effect on the background to bring forth the flying squirrel so that it looks like it is on photo mode. It is okay to have a close up of the flying squirrel.

And this is the final piece...

credit to @zomagic