Untitled Samson Doodle

I'm not the best at giving titles for my drawings/seldom animated stuff, how do others do it?

Anyhow, here's a more elaborate behind-the-scenes look at this .png:

• This is a very good place to thumbnail how you want the overall piece to look (or feel). Although, you could also wing this step - which can be pretty reckless.

• I started with an eye and expanded to the rest of the fire dog's face. That's what an illustration tutor taught me to do at one point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  

• Hey, it's starting to look like something! That's also some FF1 Fighter mane bias going on!

  

• Once the face is kinda ironed out, the focus shifted to the hands. I'd say that's the second major point of interest, the face/stare being the first. This is also where a bunch of googling was used for references. Heck, if you can, use your own hands for inspiration too!

  

• First pass completed! Now for a bunch of edits. This usually involves the free transform tool and replicating the poses I put my characters in and seeing if it feels natural enough. No, I'm not that ripped sadly ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

  

• A lot of rotating and redrawing of the lower torso later, I end up with:

  

• Once the character's overall pose is in place, other background elements get introduced into the scene. In this instance, I chose a public transport for this fire dog to sit in. Again, more googling was done to get the feel of the environment.

• Honestly, establishing a scene should've been the first step (refer to the dot point at the start) because it can potentially save a lot of time and prevent headaches.

• Finally, after the background has been coloured, Samson gets shaded based on his surroundings, and eventually, you get <see the first image>!

  

And there you have it! I hope this was slightly insightful and not as confusing to follow through. Thank you for sticking around 🙇‍♂️