The first thing here, is to choose the right colour scheme. This will depend on a lot of things, like for instance the mood or the story that you wish to tell... I wanted to do something really colourful and warm, so for the character I choose some very saturated orange, mixed with yellow and pink, the background will be colder, a green will do the job nicely with the whole piece and the light will be a pale blue. At this stage it’s only a quick sketch, just to test the colours and the first composition.
TIP: Lay down you colours on another layer, so you’ll keep them along the way.
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Step 2 - Composition & First details:
Now that I have my colours, I can carry on with the character and fix the whole anatomy. I don’t want to go into much into detail here, as this is the first design of her costume and I need to try and find out how I need her to look. I've add more light to the background and a kind of city on the right of the picture.
For this step, I usually use a basic round edged brush as I find them really great to lay down the first colours, don’t forget to set the spacing on 25% or your computer will never be able to keep up with the brush marks.
