My Digital Illustration of an Original OC Character By @wilfreehand...

Good evening friends and artists of steemit today is a great day and I decided to share with you some of my art, a digital illustration which I have been working on more than usual since I had to do the whole procedure of shading and coloring with My mouse due to some circumstances I could not get a Digitizer Tablet or Graphic Tablet.

Working with the mouse can be a little complicated and time-consuming, but a good illustration can be achieved with patience and dedication.

FIRST SIGNATURE.png

Step by step of the Sketch

He usually guided me through patterns to start making my base sketch, then I give him a little more detail and darkness. After having my base I do all the details that will characterize my character as well as the hair, costumes and accessories. At the end I highlight the fundamental lines and scan it to outline it in digital with Paint tool Sai.

^{FINISHED GRAPHITE SPLINE}

Process.

Instruments used	Version
Adobe Photoshop	CS6 Extended
Paint tool Sai	V 1.1.0 Bysfl.cn

Inking: After scanning my sketch I gave him a line on the Paint too sai taking into account that I would make changes in the middle of the process of creating my illustration.

^{PHOTO OF THE MONITOR IN THE INK}

Color: After getting my almost complete lineart I started to apply my colors, starting by giving my hair a base color.

Then when I gave the basic colors to my OC wardrobe I noticed some things I disliked about the Lineart and chose to remove them.

Adding a new face
As I had planned because of my indecision about which expression and type of face to put on my character, I went back to graffiti and drew a face that matched the body. I got a little excited about the colors and skipped a few steps without taking them down. ? In front of the shadows and lights?

^{FACE LINEART}
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Details of the face
I've always liked the moment when it's time to color the characters' eyes as they can give a simple drawing a unique meaning.

^{EYE END PHOTOGRAPHY}

I preferred to create the lineart of the mask after I already had an idea of the color palette I would use in my OC.

^{Mask Lineart}

This would be the almost complete result of my OC. Looks good, doesn't it?

Hair background and detail: After the long process of inking, modifying and coloring the character I added a simple background that didn't divert the character's attention too much. First I expand the canvas so that the image is at a size that fits on a common monitor. Then I add a base background in this case a blue night and then add lights, shadows and the other little details that complement it.It is worth mentioning that I painted my hair in Adobe Ps cs6 because it is more like with the mouse.