In the end, I added another layer, to enhance the lighting effects. I wanted to give it that fresh, extra flare from sunlight. So, I picked an almost white yellow, and in a new top layer, I used the airbrush on the brightest spots to do the flare. Some of these spots were white already, so they wouldn’t give out a yellow flare. For these areas, like the white shirts, for instance, it’s best to use white.
I also painted some rays coming from between the trees. You can see the difference this layer does in the animated GIF.
I don’t use many layers when I paint. I do create lots of layers during the process, and it would take forever to explain every little time I used a new layer, but I usually soon collapse them into the colour layer. I could do the full colours in 2 layers.
But I do keep this structure, usually:
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Extra effects over the lines (like the light flares)
- Extra rendering over the lines
- Lines
- Colours
Here, since I have animation-style characters, I ended up with this:
- Extra effects
- Character lines
- Character colours
- Character sketches (hidden in the final image)
- Background lines (the sketch, hidden in the final image)
- Colours
- A white layer, for when I’m sketching
And that’s all!
Here’s the final picture:
I was pretty happy with the final result, and while I rushed some stages of the painting, it came close to what I envisioned. Hope the tutorial was useful, you can mail me if you have any questions: luis.m.melon@gmail.com
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