johannathemad:

for faces hmm i wonder if this would help you?? but for poses this is pretty much what i do:

I REALLY HOPE IT HELPS (GOD, I’M SO BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS)

rock-bomber:

Sure! I’m always happy to answer any questions~ So, I mainly use Paint Tool Sai lately and then I use Photoshop CS2 for touching up. I have 2 primary styles of coloring: Painted-Lineless and Hard-Lined. My Mew avatar would be an example of one of my hard-lined drawings. I mainly use 2 brushes and 2 erasers in Sai:

I really like using round brushes with soft ends for sketching as well as soft coloring and blending. So for my Mew drawing, I used my soft brush, Luke, for the initial sketch:

After I finish the sketch, I draw the line art using my hard brush, Guy, and then I smooth out and shape the lines in places I see fit:

When doing a hard colored picture, I’ll use Guy. I’ll do blocky, sharp shading like this:

Now, this is a point where I’ll take the drawing over to Photoshop. To make the pixel-y pattern, I like using Photoshop because it’s a lot easier to use the pixel brush there. You can find the brush here, I have it set to 2 px to make a larger block:

And then I just checker it to make more depth in the shading. However, this is a stylistic choice specific to my 151 Pokemon Challenge I’ve been working on. It’s really useful for creating that retro kind of look on a drawing!

That’s the gist of how I tackle a hard-shaded drawing. Now, I tackle a lineless, painted style drawing a bit differently. I’ll use my Sableye drawing for example. I still start off sketching with my soft brush, Luke:

But after that, I put a rough, base coloring underneath and maybe clean it up just a little bit:

From this point, I merge the two layers together so that I only have one and I’ll “paint” on it with Luke and clean up edges with my soft eraser, Asch.

After I’m done with the character, I’ll put in a background and ta-da!

So that’s my process in a nutshell. Sorry if it’s not super informative, but I hope this helps a bit!