In which Dee spends an hour making a 90 second video.

I'm a terrible blogger.

I'm trying to do better, really, I am. To try to make up for it, I'm posting a little tutorial-ish thing I put together. I drew it on SketchBook Mobile on my iPod, so if you're going to be following the tutorial yourself, go ahead and download that. You can use the Lite version, but if you really are interested in digital art, do yourself a favor and buy the full version. It's the best drawing app I've found.

Okay. So the first thing you're going to need is the outline of your picture. You can try to sketch on your iPod and get it that way, but I've never found it easy to do that. What I usually do instead is sketch on paper, ink, then scan the image and mess with the brightness until it's pure black and white.

 

This drawing is the one I used.

  

Import the image, into SketchBook, and then turn the opacity level down to about 25%.

 

The airbrush tool is what I used for shading.

The paintbrush is for laying down the initial layer of color.

 

This is the brush I used for the detail on her boots.

 

The layer order. Make sure they're all on top of each other in the right way, otherwise you'll have parts of the drawing covering up each other.

Layer order #2. If you're using SketchBook Lite, you'll only have three layers to work with. Use the merge layers option (that arrow over in the lower right hand corner) to smash layers together.

A few quick notes on my video:

1. I was indecisive over hat color. You can use whatever color you like best.

2. I forgot shading on the hat and scarf. Oops.

3. When parts of the drawing are randomly appearing and disappearing, I'm just hiding the layers. Not actually deleting the drawing.

Hopefully this wasn't too confusing. If you have any questions just ask in the comments! I'll be glad to answer them. :D