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Description
1: Starts out as a series of sketches; Deciding positions and details

2: In Photoshop, all sketches are combined to create a compound sketch

3: Sketch is exported to Illustrator for "inking," then returned to Photoshop and placed over a color I'm not liking to use later (usually bright pink or green)

4: Coloring begins. The line art is duplicated, one copy is locked and the other is filled with base colors using the bucket tool.

5: Highlights and lowlights are added. Basically, I make new layers and set them to multiply (lowlights) and linear dodge (highlights). The same color is used to add high/lowlights as the color it's over (i.e. the shadows on Van's jacket are actually the same green as the rest, just set to multiply)

6: A background is added. In this case, the brick, exterior wall of their apartment

7: SPEECH BUBBLES!

Then done

Description
1: Starts out as a series of sketches; Deciding positions and details

2: In Photoshop, all sketches are combined to create a compound sketch

3: Sketch is exported to Illustrator for "inking," then returned to Photoshop and placed over a color I'm not liking to use later (usually bright pink or green)

4: Coloring begins. The line art is duplicated, one copy is locked and the other is filled with base colors using the bucket tool.

5: Highlights and lowlights are added. Basically, I make new layers and set them to multiply (lowlights) and linear dodge (highlights). The same color is used to add high/lowlights as the color it's over (i.e. the shadows on Van's jacket are actually the same green as the rest, just set to multiply)

6: A background is added. In this case, the brick, exterior wall of their apartment

7: SPEECH BUBBLES!

Then done