I drew a fictional creature. I fondly call him Worm. He is big - there is nothing present to show scale, but he eats dogs and other hapless animals that happen to wander by his burrow. We won't discuss the physical impossibilities of growing that large with an exoskeleton or how he can acquire enough oxygen without real lungs. Moving on...
Here is the final image. I will take you through the steps. Come along!
Here is the image, layer by layer.
Step one: Draw a sketch.
Step two: Outline the sketch. In this case, my sketch was very clean and didn't require much erasing.
Step three: Choose a direction for light and add lighting. In this case, I just added patches of light brown with the brush tool and used to smudge tool to push it around.
Step four: Add shading where appropriate - I used a darker brown than the background color and added patches with the brush tool, again smudging with the smudge tool.
Step five: Added color to the eyes, claws, butt spine, and teeth.
Step 6: On a layer beneath the lighting and shading layers, I used a richer brown to block in his top half and legs. I also added a few more touches as well as my signature. I originally stopped here; this was my finished product.
Step seven: I thought my worm looked a little washed out, so I saved a new copy, merged all the layers, and tweaked the levels and curves.
It took about 5 hours to color. I had the sketch on my tablet laptop (which I shamelessly drew during Mycology class last semester). I pulled it off, touched it up, and it became a reasonable piece of art.
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