Just somethign to tide you guys over till I actually finish this up. Maybe I might post nothing at all. I'm getting lazy. Anyway....
This is not really a tutorial. Just an example of how I work.

* DONE IN ILLUTRATOR CS AND PHOTOSHOP CS
*note not all steps are shown
1. First, I make a sketch.

2. Scan it in

3. Trace it. - When I trace, I draw a fill to make strokes as opposed to drawing a uniform line. The "ink" feel makes it a little more interesting.

4. I would make new layer for the flat colours. Except for the hair, which would go on top of everything else. So it would be like this.
-Hair
-Clothing Lines
-Clothing
-Body Lines
-Shading / Highlights
-Flats
-Original Drawing


XPLANATION OF THE IMAGE (From left to right)
5. What happens when I import into flash. - Due to Flash's incompatiblity with blending modes, I am forced to work entirely in illustrator till I'm done the colouring.

6. Water colour mode. I get this by deleting the skin colour on the "Flats" Layer. I like the way it comes out. So forget what you think.

7. Water colour/(Shadows and highlights) with all the Flats. Not much else to say here. See the difference between this and the imported flash version?


8. Save and PNG - It's a WIP, so I could care less. I'm just screwing around with it.

9. Open in photoshop and start airbrushing / dodging / burning. I suppose this could be done if you had different layers. Oh well.

10. Obvious PS effect: Guassan Blur + History tool / new layer + mask.


Well, that's basically what I'm doing. No mystery here.

I may or may not post the final. I have other things to do.

-PEACE