Hola my fellow artists! I would like to call myself a budding Procreate artist. I am fairly new to illustrations and I have only started to scratch the surface. It’s been around five months since I seriously got invested in learning art. I am drawn to cute things, so that is basically my style. I am not that into dark colours or themes with some exceptions. I would like to share my process, hope you guys enjoy it. If you are a newbie, feel free to drop in any doubts, I will try to answer to the best of my knowledge. If you are an experienced artist and have some advice to improve my art, please do advice and try to be kind in the comments.
So here goes. I basically start with a rough sketch and make it my reference. Make this sketch layer see through by reducing the opacity.
Then I make the basic shapes, face and the body in different layers. By doing this, shading and highlighting gets easier.
Then comes the facial features which I work on one by one.
For me the hair is the most daunting part. I sometimes delete the whole thing and redo if I am not satisfied with it. Layers are my best friend because of this. Then I work on other areas and finally the background.
Hope you all benefited from this. Do let me know how you like it. Eager to hear more insights from all my fellow artists.