The school I work at gave everyone the option of a day doing other activities. This was ours! Little did I realise that blowing your nose during a cycle is a bad move for the people behind you (sorry Mike - what can I say? I am an amateur and I have heavy nostrils…).
A few process notes
For those of you who have been here before this should come as no surprise but here are the usual stages outline in the snapshots below.
Gathering raw materials (I also had a few photos but I thought I’d spare my friends the shame)
Some biro/sketchbook notes for initial thinking and shifting basic ideas about
Clip Studio Paint for first tidy pencils
Affinity Designer for vectors (moving back and forth between my iMac and iPad to get the best of the different input methods¹)
initial inking
shade
colours
layout
¹ Apple Pencil is the best way of drawing. The bigger iMac screen with a trackpad/mouse is a lot better for organising and arranging compositional elements - especially when it comes to the millions of layers that vectors produce).
A few screenshots
