5. Now it's time to clean this up and get it in some sort of more finished form. For this piece, I did everything in Photoshop, but I've since started to import my pencil part into Illustrator and use Illustrator's brush tool for creating the outlines of my characters. I'll then use Illustrator's pen tool to create all of my backgrounds.
6. With the outlines now complete, I'll import that back into Photoshop to ink all of the details and add spot blacks to the drawing. The wonderful thing about working digitally is just how flexible it all is. Even though I have this process of using both Illustrator and Photoshop, the more I work this way, the more confident I get with using one or the other just to play around with things.
7. Now it's time to really make this come to life and add color. I do this entirely in Photoshop using Channels. I'll first lay down flat color over everything and then I'll come back and model it all out.
8. After that, it's time to add a few effects, which I'll add over on another layer. I've just glossed over everything here real briefly, but in general this is the process that I use to draw digitally. I'm always learning new techniques and tips, so this isn't a final process by any means. To see the final in a larger view, just click right here.
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