So we just hit 50k on Instagram. I am speechless like how are all you guys here? I'm just some guy I swear I say this like every time I hit a milestone, but I'm so thankful for the support. This is insane So usually when I hit a milestone, I do some kind of art challenge for you guys and this is one of them I decided I'd record this one and kind of take you through the process of my art except some kind of stupid I'll have forgot to hit record when I was sketching so Oh man, but I can still take you through like the coloring and rendering process, you know Hopefully you learn something or just enjoy my lovely voice. I can maybe do like some sketching tutorial sketching process videos if you enjoy this But anyway for now, I'm just fast forwarding to the coloring stage so we can get started on this What I'm doing with my sketch right now is kind of refining some harder edges and stuff like that Because I don't really like to do solid line work. I like to keep the energy of the sketch This works pretty well for me as I have like kind of a painterly style. So a lot of my cleanup happens in the render You'll also notice me blocking out some of the harder shadows, which will make sense a little later All right, so now the sketch is finished. I'm moving on to color and you'll notice the first thing I did was lay down like a base color for the background And this just makes it a lot nicer to work on than just white. I find that it helps me find colors that work well together as well So now I'm kind of just going in with a lasso filled brush blocky out the silhouette with a base skin tone At this stage, I'm not even worried about if it's super neat or not because there's plenty of time to clean up afterwards Right now I'm just giving myself a base to work off of So now my silhouette will look how I can start messing around with the colors So the first thing I do is I grab the sketch and then I set it to multiply and start messing around with the color of that For this, I'm just using the basic hue saturation value sliders to just mess around and see what I like I find that for this a color that's already quite similar to the skin tone works pretty well So for the rest of the colors moving forward, I want to find something that works well with the color cellar already laid down So at this stage, I like to add some more colors to the skin and kind of give it a little more life A good way of giving life to the skin is adding some color on the cheeks and those So as you can see, that's what I'm doing right now. We're just kind of experiencing with the shapes I'll also add the same color around the eyelids to give it a little more depth My goal here is it to be super refined with it is kind of just to get the right feeling You really don't have to be super refined with your brush strokes. Just have fun with it So I've just fast-forwarded a little bit now and you can see everything's a little blended out Now I'm just using the same color to add shadow which will give it a lot more depth For this I'm using a hard round brush, but being really gentle with the opacity to keep it looking smooth Unless the thing you really don't need to fancy brushes to create a pleasing piece It's all about how you use them. In my case, I'm almost always using really simple brushes like the hard round Sometimes textured brushes for sketching and stuff like that, but you really don't need them So with the base shading though, I'm kind of messing around with more saturated colors around the cheeks though In this case, I'm using quite a bright orange, but brushing it down being really gentle with the opacity again There's not too much more to say about this stage, so I'll just fast-forward this bit It's mainly just trial and error until you find something you like So now I want to start moving on to the actual color scheme Right now I'm using the selection tool to select all the hair This will make sure that when I'm coloring it, I won't accidentally go over the skin Some people might like to do this on a different layer It's really about what works for you Personally doing everything on one layer just feels more natural to me and is much more efficient for my process But you might be different, so experiment Now I'm going in with the basic round brush and just brushing in the hair color Again being really gentle with the opacity This will make sure that none of the colors are overwhelming I'm also just blocking out the basic shadows Now I'll turn my boy leg cat if you follow the Instagram, you know what's up He is my glorious son So now I'm just going over the same process with the coloring Selecting the shape and then going in with the basic round brush And the same thing for the hoodina Now this one's a tricky one because the hoodie is also the same kind of blue on this character But I don't just want to use the same blue because I want to give it some contrast So right now I'm just experimenting a lot with the colors to find something similar that also has contrast from the colors that I already put down I ended up going for this slightly darker teal color which I quite liked The rest of the coloring process was quite simple, I won't bore you with the detail It was just a lot of experimenting, so yeah, we'll just fast forward this bit So now I'm happy with the colors, I just merged both of the layers into one so I can work on it as a whole Now I start the render which is basically just cleaning up and making everything a little more refined Having everything on one layer for me makes things really efficient because I don't have to keep switching And there's no separation so everything just kind of blends into each other better I can't talk I'm sorry What I'm focusing on right now is just cleaning up the sketchy lines and making the edges a lot more crisp This is going to be like one of my favorite parts of the art process because you see everything just come together It's beautiful Again, there's really not too much to say about this stage so I'll just cut to the time-ups again and you could kind of see what I'm doing through the process Yeah I I love adding the highlights it just It's so satisfying So now I kind of approaching the end of the piece and I just like to go in with some textures Especially with the skin. I like to add a little texture to make it a little less smooth So right now I'm kind of just going in with like a random spray brush Which has little details in the skin which I quite like you could also use this brush a little darker to add freckles and stuff like that I think it's just a pretty neat brush I'm also going in with like a noise brush here just really adding more texture to it again It's really just about experimenting and finding something that you like And of course this is an art challenge from my Instagram If you want to head over there and check it out I'll leave a link in the description and it'll have all the info there Yes, but seriously 50k oh my god That is nuts How did I get here? That is wild. I thank you so much seriously. This means so much So basically this is like a design challenge where you're gonna get leg cut over there and kind of turn it into your own Human version it can be whenever you want I think I'll probably draw my favorites as well in my own style So if that's something that interests you go check out the Instagram become part of the family Yeah, just have fun with it, you know, and I'll hopefully see your lovely art soon