WIP shots [kyo - love me]

Like I said, I can’t do tutorials at all, mainly because I have no method to my madness; it’s all random. But I can describe each step I took, I suppose…

1. Sketch. I don’t try to erase any line I draw unless it’s randomly in the way of something else, such as the lines I use to determine eye/nose positions. I don’t tend to ink, either, and normally my lines are the same consistency for each portion (ie: all the hair is similar, all the skin is the same…).

2. I don’t like inking my stuff because I fail at it and it feels like a cage in a way.
I color in layers by whatever goes on the bottom first, so I started with skin here. I plot down my major shaded areas with one coat of one marker and, after it dries, I plot out the darkest coat with the second layer. Every stage after this is filling in the difference.

3. Ran over entire picture with basic skin color again so no white showed up. Secondary shadows coated with an acid yellow marker (the entire portion) then covered up with skin tone again before it dried. More layers gradually added up and then mustard (a darker yellow marker) added on the edges to give definition to bone structures. Ad nauseam.

4. Just a continuation of 3 with the addition of an orange marker. I realized the shading was too sparse and expanded it much further. Used a darker pink marker immediately covered with skin tone to make gray areas (gray tends to be too bland of a color to use in something like this, so I try to make it myself).

5. Hair. All the coloring is done in the direction of the fall of the hair. I basically use the exact OPPOSITE style as the skin; there is no blocking in the hair. I start from the major part line and work my way back, only filling in parts of each hair chunk. Started with the middle tone (mustard) and simply kept layering (ALWAYS STARTING FROM PART LINES) until I reached the limit of one color. Then I grabbed the lightest color (acid yellow) and shaded all the hair in the same fashion, filing in the highlighted portions. Repeated the same steps that I took with the mustard markers over again. Then I used my darkest color (lionet gold) to add undertones.

Added grays (mustard covered with white colored pencil) for pupils and jewelry.

Sorry it’s all in one step, but I can’t cut up the process. For some reason I HAVE to do the hair in one shot or I’ll end up hating it.

6-7. Coloring shirt in the same fashion as steps 2-3. Two red markers and mustard again. Very small additions to hair and skin as I noticed them.

8. Added a background color as the white was too blinding and washed out the color. Ran out of black so layers red till it got dark enough. Bah.

9. Added colored pencil to hair and eyes. Blood made with smeared red colored pencil (skin colored marker on top) and red marker for trails.

Yeah. That’s about the means of it. I have no idea what I am doing.

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