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Description
For ProjectEducate using ~mariiiis-dolls 's base.

I think I highlighted my ability to do a pretty dress and wtf at the same time. And my love of long black hair in unrealistic styles. <<

Progress Sheet: [link]
Steps Breakdown Stolen from Duckie:

Step 1: Choose the pose. Opted for the swing one but I started without the rough sketch of a swing Mariiii provided.
Step 2: Sketched my own swing (wrongly you will see) and moved on. I used my tablet and the brush to sketch.
Step 3: Sketched out some rough idea for a pretty dress. She was supposed to be like a goddess shimmering in the moonlight when I sketched her. Notice, sketch eyes have pupils
Step 4: Once I had my idea, I hid that layer (each step has been its own so far) and whited out the base. I don't use outlines more often than not these days, so almost always I have to reshade the base anyway. But I find I also don't like the way most people (Anyone but me, really) shades skin ;D Stylistic choice, man. I've found when I try to do face edits, though, I always make the faces really wrong for the base, so I've begun to keep the proportions of the face even when I'm editing it. That said, I mark the pupils, nostrils, and center of the mouth when I clear out the shading.
Step 5: I start with a face edit, because it usually sets the tone of how I shade. If I use an outline on the face I usually keep an outline around everything but the hair. In this specific case, the irises weren't cooperating, so being a butt, I whited them out for kicks and kind of fell in love with her creepy eyes and creepy skintone I was using (I rarely shade in the palette I'm going to keep. I tweak after.)
Step 6: After I shaded the face, I shaded the rest of the body. Because I intended on covering her entire body with a dress, I only shaded her bust and arms. Normally, especially if it's form fitting clothing, I try to shade the entire base first, just in case something doesn't work or I get stuck on how the shading should be.
Step 7: Normally I shade the hair first, but for this doll, I started with the dress because it was the focal point. I didn't intend on keeping the blue, but I was vetoed on changing in
Step 8: After that I cheated and shaded the lace by using the dress palette to recolor her arms and chest, cut out the pattern, and changed the layer blend mode to overlay.
Step 9: Next was the wood swing, at which point I realized I messed up the sketch of her strings.
Step 10: Get upset and avoid her for three days because she wasn't working now. She looked like she was swinging when she wasn't. Her feet are planted on the ground, which is why nothing is moving.
Step 11: After I took a break from her, I was able to sit back down and finish her. I skipped the strings, did her cloak and hair instead. They were pretty easy. Her hair isn't my normal shading style, but no doll's hair is every the same technique. It varies on the size of the hair, the base, the overall style of the doll.
Step 12: Finally, I added her strings and decided they were spider's silk. I added spider webs at the base and then decided to cover her in webs. This fixed the "she looks like she should be moving but she's not, but we don't know because her feet are covered" issue. To do the webs, I shaded them in a white palette (I stole the palette from her eyes) and then dropped the layer opacity to 50% to get a translucent look.
Step 13: Call it done, save it, and upload.
Step 14: In two hours, see all the little flaws I should fix but can't be arsed to.

Description
For ProjectEducate using ~mariiiis-dolls 's base.

I think I highlighted my ability to do a pretty dress and wtf at the same time. And my love of long black hair in unrealistic styles. <<

Progress Sheet: [link]
Steps Breakdown Stolen from Duckie:

Step 1: Choose the pose. Opted for the swing one but I started without the rough sketch of a swing Mariiii provided.
Step 2: Sketched my own swing (wrongly you will see) and moved on. I used my tablet and the brush to sketch.
Step 3: Sketched out some rough idea for a pretty dress. She was supposed to be like a goddess shimmering in the moonlight when I sketched her. Notice, sketch eyes have pupils
Step 4: Once I had my idea, I hid that layer (each step has been its own so far) and whited out the base. I don't use outlines more often than not these days, so almost always I have to reshade the base anyway. But I find I also don't like the way most people (Anyone but me, really) shades skin ;D Stylistic choice, man. I've found when I try to do face edits, though, I always make the faces really wrong for the base, so I've begun to keep the proportions of the face even when I'm editing it. That said, I mark the pupils, nostrils, and center of the mouth when I clear out the shading.
Step 5: I start with a face edit, because it usually sets the tone of how I shade. If I use an outline on the face I usually keep an outline around everything but the hair. In this specific case, the irises weren't cooperating, so being a butt, I whited them out for kicks and kind of fell in love with her creepy eyes and creepy skintone I was using (I rarely shade in the palette I'm going to keep. I tweak after.)
Step 6: After I shaded the face, I shaded the rest of the body. Because I intended on covering her entire body with a dress, I only shaded her bust and arms. Normally, especially if it's form fitting clothing, I try to shade the entire base first, just in case something doesn't work or I get stuck on how the shading should be.
Step 7: Normally I shade the hair first, but for this doll, I started with the dress because it was the focal point. I didn't intend on keeping the blue, but I was vetoed on changing in
Step 8: After that I cheated and shaded the lace by using the dress palette to recolor her arms and chest, cut out the pattern, and changed the layer blend mode to overlay.
Step 9: Next was the wood swing, at which point I realized I messed up the sketch of her strings.
Step 10: Get upset and avoid her for three days because she wasn't working now. She looked like she was swinging when she wasn't. Her feet are planted on the ground, which is why nothing is moving.
Step 11: After I took a break from her, I was able to sit back down and finish her. I skipped the strings, did her cloak and hair instead. They were pretty easy. Her hair isn't my normal shading style, but no doll's hair is every the same technique. It varies on the size of the hair, the base, the overall style of the doll.
Step 12: Finally, I added her strings and decided they were spider's silk. I added spider webs at the base and then decided to cover her in webs. This fixed the "she looks like she should be moving but she's not, but we don't know because her feet are covered" issue. To do the webs, I shaded them in a white palette (I stole the palette from her eyes) and then dropped the layer opacity to 50% to get a translucent look.
Step 13: Call it done, save it, and upload.
Step 14: In two hours, see all the little flaws I should fix but can't be arsed to.