motocat - final + tiny process (Patreon)

Hi gamers and elite athletes,

Here is my latest motocat drawings with a tiny behind the scenes. I look for references of riders usually in motogp but really anything will do. It is helpful if the bike is somewhat similar to motocat's which is motogp adjacent. Then I make some rough sketches, not really caring if they are super accurate, moreso paying attention to the shapes and proportions.

I drew them separately and then overlapped them because I knew I would want to use them in their entirety as stickers. Then the process is really just cleaning up the lineart. I added the livery at the end on a separate layer so I didn't get confused with what's bike and whats design.

I select the general shape of the bike and then color on that mask. It's very rough at first when I'm just figuring out what color I want where.

I also did an alternate livery for the top bike.

I put an orange transparent layer with the darken blending mode over everything as I seemingly always do to warm and homogenize all the colors, but then I edited the color balance completely anyways.

I am going to be making this a print in the near future so keep an eye out! I also will attach the lineart of the top bike below if you would like to use it for drawing livery.

Ta Ta. Will be back soon with jormungandr process.