Paw Play

Looks like someone is having fun with some wolf foot paws.

This is a toony style full detail YCH (Your-Character-Here) commission for Otto042 on Twitter who won a YCH auction I had on another site. I'll show you the process of what I did. Let's get started. :)

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Drawing Details

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My Layer Layout

• Foreground Folder
  • Lineart layer
  • Highlights layer
  • Backlights layer
  • Shadows layer
  • Color Folder (Masked to Base Color layer.)
    • 1st Character Folder
      • Quaternary Color layer
      • Tertiary Color layer
      • Secondary Color layer
      • Primary Color layer
    • 2nd Character Folder
      • Quaternary Color layer
      • Tertiary Color layer
      • Secondary Color layer
      • Primary Color layer
  • Base Color layer
• Background Folder
  • Shadows layer
  • Pattern layer
• Extra Sketch layer
• Fine Sketch layer
• Rough Sketch layer
• Canvas Background layer (Neutral color like grey.)

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• Canvas Prep/Rough Sketch

  Layers Used:

  Canvas Background layer

  Rough Sketch layer

  I start off with sketching out rough shapes for the characters and poses.

• Fine Sketch

  Layers Used:

  Fine Sketch layer

  After getting the rough sketches for the characters, I go back over them with a finer sketch.

Then this was what was presented for the auction. (I just made a temporary layer underneath the fine sketch layer, color in with the same blue color as the sketches, then turn the layer's opacity to 50%.)

After a client was determined through the YCH auction, I edited the YCH placeholder character to edit in the details of the winner.

• Lineart

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Lineart layer

  After the fine sketch, I lineart over them.

• Base Color

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Base Color layer

  Then I use the contiguous "wizard" tool to select all areas outside of the characters' parameters, invert the selection, then fill in with a neutral color base.

• Primary Color

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Colors -> Primary Color layer

  I carefully draw in the primary colors of the characters making sure not to overlap colors where they shouldn't.

Then I mask the color folder down to the base color layer.

• Detail Color

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Color Folder -> Detail Folder -> (Folder's color layers)

  I add in the characters' other color details in their respective folders.

• Shadows

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Shadows layer (Layer Blending Mode: Grain Merge; Opacity: 50%)

  Then add in the shadows...

• Highlights

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Highlights layer (Opacity: 75%)

  ...then the highlights...

• Backlights

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Backlights layer (Layer Blending Mode: Soft Light)

  ...then the backlights.

• Background/Final Check/Final Result

  Layers Used:

  Canvas Background layer

  Background Shadows layer

  (Various layers)

  Here, I whiten the canvas background, and I add in a pattern and some shadow in the background folder. Finally, I check over the drawing for any missing details or stuff I need to change.

Then the drawing is complete!

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Enjoy the pic (as much as Otto enjoy's Bleux's paws lol)!

Otto © Tw: Otto042
Artwork by @bleuxwolf

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