Today I want to share this digital piece I was making for some time.

This suppose to be another simple practice for testing my brushes and coloring but ended up turning into another huge painting.

In this post i'm going to show the process I took to convert and old sketch of last year into this full color piece. Let's get start with it.

In this Link, I showed sometime ago a WIP (Work in progress) of the piece. I normally spend 1 month in each digital piece. I'm super slow because I'm learning. I like to do the things well done even I make mistakes. That, ironically, is a mistake itself, because for learn, you have to make mistakes. But oh well. I'm tought with myself .

Here it is the drawing which began everything. A little sketch of my boi I made as a part of my daily sketches.

This is basically before and after the WIP image I showed before. In my digital piece I normally made the skelleton of the figure again using the traditional sketch as a kind of guide (left). after that, I go to make cleaner lines. (right).

Here I set the basic color I plan to use. I still have no idea how to make background properly, that is why is just put a flat pink color.

Here comes the pain fun part. Changed the color of the background to purple, and added the shadows according the reference I was using. Light came from upper left so shadow must lay on the other side. And that was basically I did.

On this part also, I try to correct mistakes and add more details. Like as you can see (comparing to the flat coloring), add more hair and fix the nose (or tried to).

Here I add more shadow, make softer some stuffs, try to correct things that doesn't fit me so much. Added some textures to the background and the Light glow in his eyes. And my signature because I'm stupidly proud of what I did. My boy looks so alive. ;w;

Thanks to Hive account@ritzzard and his gif tutorial, I took all the phases of my drawing and turn it into a gif for simplify the steps and, for your entertainment.