Adding the warmth

1 Starting the initial sketch

The first step was to create a very loose sketch of the entire pose to begin with. After some deliberation I decided to go with a slightly angled-up pose on the character’s face, and wanted to give it some type of angelic direction.

2

One of the biggest inspirations for me with this piece was to make the super-warm shadows and skin tone work effectively with a very light hair and background. Here I start using a Lighten layer to saturate some of the initial sketch.

3 Full-on render

Once I have the base warm colours down, I can begin to go in by hand and paint in each section of the piece. I also bring back a lot of line work into the piece on top of rendered areas, to add a bit of my own style into the piece.