Hunter - final and process (kinda) (Patreon)

My process of drawing Hunter is not any different than how I did my previous two blended drawings. The only difference is I used a reference. I don't like drawing from reference and feeling like I have to replicate it so I had to keep that in mind from the start of this drawing. Right before this, I was drawing Billie Eilish and unfortunately stopped because I was trying too hard to make it exactly like the reference. I will retry and just vibe harder.

I will be posting a short timelapse of this drawing so my process description will be brief but here is a summary:

[That process image (2nd pic) doesn't accurately reflect my process, it is just showing a layer of editing that exists above a more solid base. That is not what my sketches look like.]

I started out with a pretty loose sketch and chose some block colors as the background. I really only focus on blocking in the general colors of an area and then refine it later on. I try and clean up the edges and solidify the shape of it all and them finish it up after by really trying to get all the colors nice and good. I didn't want this to be super detailed so I render it just enough that you kind of understand it. 

This drawing was really just supposed to be fun. After I finished her profile, I just wanted to do something simple for the background. I had a bit of trouble with her original outfit so just simplified it into a basic shoulder strap that wasn't distracting and made the earring as an element of the "decoration" around her. 

The third image shows what the finished drawing looked like before I add texture and edit. All I did was add the usual true grit paper texture and the actual skin texture is just the halftone setting on procreate. I don't ever use it really on portraits like this. Then I added some glitch.