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I haven't uploaded anything in a while (because I'm rubbish and busy and rubbish) but I finished this skyscraper ad off yesterday and figured I could post up a basic wee step-by-step that some people might find useful - this is the exact same process I'm currently using for my comic pages.

Some rough steps:

1) The rough sketch. I use Photoshop CS3 for everything.

2) Drop some midtone grey and textures over the sketch.

3) Shoddy inking! The inks aren't too precise since I keep the sketch in there to save myself some effort.

4) Though I do paint over it a bit.

5) I flatten everything down into one layer, brighten it up a bit, set it to multiply, and then start painting a background in underneath.

6) Flat colours.

7) Shadows and some colour tweaking. I tinted the base colours green and the shadows blue.

8) Dropped a red gradient on a screen layer over the whole thing, and then cut some shadows out of it using a layer mask.

9) Painted the moon back in and did some detailing, mainly around her eyes.

10) Final colour adjustment, another texture on top, a little border and the logo text. Baaaam.

Questions? No? Good, I'm off to not post again for several months, whoooo.

(Psssst you can see my comic over here.)
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~thepotatognome Apr 11, 2011
Thanks for showing! Your finished stuff has a really great look to it and I love your comic! I found it when my internet was shaped and I liked it so much I started to read it ridiculously slow loading page by ridiculously slow loading page. =D
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~snowtato May 26, 2010
Lovely! I'm a huge fan of the comic and this is quite illuminating. Keep up the great work!
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~frostcrystal Apr 26, 2010
I love how beautifully cleancut your style is. <3333 *not cleancut at all*

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As a solution to various problems you may encounter upon the way, let me suggest this: Make Good Art.

It's very simple. But it seems to work. Life fallen apart? Make good art. True love ran off with the milkman? Make good art.
-Neil Gaiman
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~mercihlam Apr 19, 2010
thank you so much this is so helpful! you've got a great style and i love where the comic is going!
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~booper101 Apr 17, 2010  Student Artist
Ooooo,I like this :D

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~dracothrope Apr 16, 2010
Love this process, it's really snazzy! (Also, still voting every chance I get! :D)
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*Sephiramy Apr 16, 2010   Digital Artist
Looks swank, as always, Rose! I love the overall feel of your work, but to be honest, all the stages actually look very cool in their own way, haha. Could probably use any one of those and still have a good-looking final product!

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now, you make the first move,
you'll see good things usually m u l t i p l y.
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~sarilys Apr 16, 2010  Student General Artist
I'm sure one day I'll be able to do that too until then...I'll read your comic :D
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