Describe the steps to making your drawings

[JoshRaed]

For my art the steps are.

1. Stick frame with ball-joints to get the pose.

2. Shapes like cylinders and spheres and rectangles to get the volume.

3. A rough sketch of a naked body to ensure that I get the shape underneath the clothes correct (I have skipped this step to disastrous results)

4. The final form with the characters in their clothes with all the details right.

5. The flat coloring.

6. The added color details. (This is the shortest step because I don't know that many that look right so I just end up making my protag look like he's either flustered by a cute boy, has a cold, or both)

7. Then add a layer of shading or two layers, or even three which is what I did last time. Hard black color but with the opacity turned down and added to the darker area's.

What's your process?

[Leyelle]

1. I start with a rough sketch of the head
2. make a rough sketch of the rest of the body
3. Fix any proportions that looked awkward
4. clean up the line art
5. add features to the face and details to the hands and hair
6. color the picture
7. add lighting and shadows

[Lensing]

Here is something my morning training and I´ll explain the steps that I took:

Hands (I always double check and correct every step until it matches)
1 Cylinder for the lower arm
2 squishy ball thing + thumb and the opposite side of the hand where the
pinky finger attaches
3 I draw the fingers as one big shape as if the hand would be inside a glove
(the gloves without seperated fingers)
4 opacity down, draw the fingers and rest of the arm/hand, always double check
with the reference until I´m happy

Head:

I don´t always do the same order but some like this:

1 Circle
2 Side circle
3. Locating the features (hairline eyebrowline, nose, mouth, chin)
4 Shape of the face
5 Ear and neck
6 Eye and arch for the eyes
7 Nose
8 Eye circles
9 Mouth area
10 Opacity down, draw the facial features and the planes of the
head as 3d thingys

Poses:
I have a lot of different methods that I combine,
I drew this one this morning with a mix of different methods.
First step analyzing and tracing the pose because I first didn´t understand
the pose and I wasn´t sure where the pelvis is and how it bends (I´m still not sure)
Then I drew negative space around the figure, traced the gesture, thought about how
to start and then:

1 the hand and arm
2 the collar bone drawing the connection to the crotch using the Riley method
3 hips to neck Riley method
4 ribcage
5 pelvis
6 legs and feet
7 neck and head
8 opacity down and drawing the breasts, muscles, details, that took me
a while and I corrected it a lot. It was a tough pose to draw

[KevinReijnders]

Instead of just describing it in bullet points, I thought it might be more fun to show it

This is an older timelapse of a piece I made:

I've recently been modifying my style a bit, really leaning more into the angular shapiness of it, but the overall process is still the same.

1) sketch
2) rough
3) clean
4) flat
5) shadow
6) light
7) bounce light
8) ambient occlusion
9) highlights
10) finishing touches

[MK_Wizard]

1- I do concept art which could involve up to three to four drafts.
2- I storyboard a chapter/drawing.
3- I draw the comic/drawing and this sometimes involves drawing a piece in two parts; one as the main part and the other as the background.
4- I scan the piece(2).
5- I ink the piece.
6- Add all the colours, shading, highlights and other details.

[daeygurart]

Box Sketch

clean sketch

lineart

profit?

[2DLenzy]

1) storyboard sketch, very rough sketches
2) copy/paste boards/panels onto canvas
3) adjust for size/composition, add speech balloons, adjust for flow
4) another draft layer, taking details, proportions, perspective into consideration and cleanup
5) lineart, adjust lineweights
6) flats
7) shading, usually multiply/add layers and simple gradients. Nothing fancy.
7a) (for illustrations: more multiply/add layers and fx, gets fancy)

[BoomerZ]

1: Gesture to get the pose
2: rough lines and underlying shapes
3: Clean-up
4: Inks
5: Colors
6: Shadows and highlights

[ThunderChicken]

Mine basically goes like this:

Very rough sketch (people look like balloon animals) in some God-awful colour like bright red
New layer
First “real” sketch in a contrasting colour (if first was blue, this will be red)
New layer
Second “real” sketch, refining shapes and even adjusting limb positions, etc. this will be done in a third gross colour, say, bright green
New layer
Final sketch/ink layer. Although it will still be rough it’s as smooth as it gets for me. This one will be black.
Copy & paste this layer on top of itself, hide all rough sketch layers
Create a temporary background layer in a violently bright colour such as violet
Make second-from top layer active
Rough colour that layer and make more refinements to shapes, facial expressions, etc. that violently bright background will allow me to see any “holes” in the colours
Apply tints, shadows, lighting, textures to rough colour layer (this process alone can create two dozen or more new layers)
Flatten all colour layers into one colour layer
This leaves me with four layers: The top (ink) layer, the colour layer, the violent layer, and a plain white background layer. Next I will delete that violent layer and create a new layer between the white background and the subjects of the drawing.
I draw my background starting from that new layer and draw it the exact same way that I draw the subjects. I will leave the subjects visible and draw under them until I get to the final background ink. Then I make the subjects invisible and colour my background the same way that I coloured the subjects. This is often a multi layer affair too, using semi transparent gradients for skies and mist/haze in the background, clouds, sun rays, etc.
After the background layers are done I will simplify them by merging a bunch, then make the subject layer visible again.
I will save a copy in raw format to preserve my remaining layers, and I will save a PNG for web use

[theyrebothakilogram]

My process is pretty much the same as everyone else's here, I start with a stickfigure sketch of what I kinda want, then I get the bg for the pannel and make a proper sketch

the I do a typical lines colors and shading then special effects

and then finally words and word bubbles

[navf86]

Timelapse - work in progress: drawing one of my protagonists

Check out the first 2 chapters here:

Read Ashes Awaken | Tapas Web Community

[IndigoShirtProd]

1. Loose sketch together an ide for the pose
2. Rough "anatomy" sketch whee I draw the body of the character without details or clothes.
3. Clean, detailed sketch
4. Line art
5. Flat color (and blushing if applicable)
6. Rendering (shading, highlighting, coloring lineart, background, etc.)

Though this is only applicable to the character art portion of making illustrations and comic pages.

[kyupol]

1) type in AI prompt
2) press enter
3) say hello to my 6 finger waifu

[JoshRaed]

[vinsgraphics]

At virtually every doctor's appointment we have, I leave the doc a parting gift, a cartoon drawn on the spot. This was for our GI doc.

So, honestly, there's no process. I draw the finished item start to finish on the spot in one visit, usually after thinking about the topic and text while waiting[Uploading...]. Takes about 5 minutes (and, yes, I know that it looks like it too).

[navf86]

Thanks for opening this thread to a critical discussion / learning!

The steps I follow:

1. Follow the script and storyboard and figure out whether any changes are needed to the panels / perspective
2. Clean outlining and erasure of underlying (rough) sketch
3. Grey out primary characters/ backgrounds on a separate layer - in some cases, I might color the backgrounds first to get a better understanding of the characters' scale and placement
4. Select greyed out area and overlay with colors/ tones
5. Final edits with rendering/ lighting etc.

Example: