Sketches

Very nice! How did you make this?

Thanks man!

I'm using Clip Studio Paint since I got it on sale two years ago and an ass-old graphic tablet I got from my fiancée.

CSP comes with some really nice oil brushes which I'm using for almost every digital work.

If interest arises, I can take screenshots and compile a step-by-step for the next work?

Until i do that, my steps for this particular sketch were:

New file with background layer in this blue-ish colour

--> transparent layer on top

--> lineart on top layer. I kept it rather sketchy, bg layer below is for shading

--> blocked in darkest parts and shadowed planes of the faces with oil brush on low amount and density of paint, used same colour as lineart. This has a rather 'traditional' feel to it but is much healthier than breathing in oil paint fumes^^

--> tried to use background colour as highlight on their faces, so I rendered only the darkest parts on Sonny's face. With Rico i had to keep in mind that darker skin reflects light differently, not sure if I succeeded here. I need to draw poc more often to learn that.

--> decided background colour wasn't light enough for really bright highlights, so I slightly tapped their eyes and teeth with a shade a little lighter than the bg colour

--> used a coarse brush to add Sonny's stubble and voilà!