Step by step (Patreon)

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=318761 was kind enough to knit for me a rainbow scarf like the one Austen wore (I can't wait to see it :D :D :D) so I wanted to draw her something in return. This is her RP character Fenne.

I saved process shots along the way, and thought I'd post them publicly.

Thumbnail:

Lines (done directly over the thumbnail sketch).

Flat-ish colours (hair, fur and the two colours for the clothes were all done on separate layers.)

Shading added on a multiply layer.

Brought in the background from the thumbnail to give me a better sense of the colour scheme. I then painted over the foreground using both standard layers and overlay layers, to add colour variation. 

Cleaned up the background, coloured the lines, coloured the eyes. I considered adding rough shapes inside the window, to hint at an interior, but it looked really messy every time I tried it, so I decided not to.

And done! Vines and lights added, background lines also coloured, blurred out the background a bit, increased the contrast with a levels layer and added a texture on top to (hopefully) give it a slightly rougher, oil-painterly look.