Winter’s Warmth Process

Mini Explanation

• Thumb sketch – I wanted steps leading to a door, with a girl who had just found a stray kitten and wrapped him in her scarf.
• Lines – I don’t actually line a lot of my stuff now, I just paint over top. But I drew over this one. I then threw a beige colour in the background and painted in purple over it to get the overall shadows.
• Greyscale – changed it to greyscale, made the wall darker, so the girl would stand out better and would contrast with the snow.
• Colour 1 – Started adding colour back in using the colour, overlay, multiply and soft light layer modes.
• Colour 2 – More colours using layer modes.
• Colour 3 – Yet more colours – some were simply blocked in without colour modes (like the stockings) using my tablet pressure sensitivity for opacity.
• Painting – The next two steps are just painting. Eyedropping or picking colours and rendering as I go.
• Effect – Adjusted the colours with colour balance and added some overlay colours. Also added the little white vines.
• Snow – Very lazy snow XD I adjusted a default brush and set it to scatter. Used a few different sizes and opacities.
• Oops – Fixed the face a bit XP Still not that happy with it, but I just don’t have time @_@
• Final – Copied the image and pasted into a new file, resized it and added my watermark ^^