This is probably my favorite thing that I have ever drawn TBH. Not because it's overly good, but because this is my OCTP. Renfield was meant to look surprised, but I don't really know how well that was conveyed. Gay nerds. The ship name is Rhufield, if you care. ~~~~~ Higher Quality: http://fav.me/d93w7c7 ~~~~~ Drawing (c) @FashionRox669 (Rachel Aspen) Characters (c) Rachel Aspen Music (c) Troye Sivan ~~~~~ STEPS: 1. Rough sketch. I used a custom brush (graphite pencil) to block out the rough shapes and forms. 2. Refined sketch. Some people skip this step and go straight to line-art. I can't do that. I use the same brush to refine forms and expressions. I also cropped my image. 3. Line-art. I used the pencil brush at 4pt size to go over my sketch and make small adjustments (eyelashes, Renfield's smile, etc.). 4. I used the selection tool to fill in everything that would be colored (minus the background) and filled it with one solid color. 5. Coloring. I filled in the exact colors of each character, without shading. 6. Rough shadows. I used a distinct color (in this case, dark blue) to map out where I wanted shadows to be. 6. Shadows. I duplicated the colors layer and moved it above the shadows layer. I clipped it, merged the layers, and messed around with hue, saturation, brightness, and opacity until I got shadows I was happy with. (The next three steps I forgot to save separately, whoops!) 7. Rough highlights. I used a distinct color (in this case, light blue) to map out where I wanted highlights to be. 8. Highlights. I duplicated the colors layer and moved it above the highlights layer. I clipped it, merged the layers, set the layer to "add", and messed around with hue, saturation, brightness, and opacity until I got highlights I was happy with. 9. Coloring the line-art. I used a custom marker bush to add darker versions of the characters colors to color the line-art. 10. Gradient. I used a dark blue-light yellow gradient on "overlay" to further shade the line-art and colors. 11. Background. I used a blue-pink gradient then painted light orange clouds over it. Then I added a shining moon. 12. Glowing hearts. I used my pencil brush to draw two hearts. Then I duplicated that layer, blurred it, and set it to "add". I merged layers and lowered the opacity. ~~~~~ Drawn in FireAlpaca with a Wacom Intuos 5. Time Taken: Too long
