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[Process] Toga

Added 2019-05-06 21:10:40 +0000 UTC

Here's the process for a drawing of Toga from BNHA I've been working on! My basic steps as they align with the process image:

1. This drawing is a panel redraw from the main comic, so this is the screenshot I started with as a reference.

2. Normally I would do some rough sketching first, but since I was trying to directly mimic the reference here, I just went straight for the lines. I used the stumpy pencil brush and eraser (downloadable for free here) for the entirety of this drawing. The lines are not quite black and are instead a very dark gray so that the color overlay would effect them (in step 5).

3. I decided I wanted to deviate from the reference a bit so that it matched my previous Dabi redraw I had done, so I roughed out some options for lighting and tones on Toga.

4. I decided on the lighting from the left, so I added some gray tones while using my Dabi drawing as reference. The clouds in the background have a gradient on them so they are lighter at the top, but everything else is solid gray tones.

5. In a layer on top of everything else, I used a soft round brush (the default that comes with photoshop) on a low opacity to put some soft colors down just wherever I thought looked good, not actually coloring in the drawing (mostly purple and pink with a little blue). I then set this layer to "overlay" so it effected the color of the lines and gray tones.

6. Some finishing touches -- I merged all the layers and made everything a bit darker so it better matched my Dabi drawing, and then I applied a noise filter to the merged layer to give it a bit of that natural rough/sketchy look (Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise). All done!