K.O. walkthrough (Patreon)

So, I was really inspired by the way that Dan Hipp's been using colored pencil for lineart lately-- I really love his art direction and illustration and if you haven't checked it out you definitely should. 

First, I started out with a cleaned up sketch: 

And I printed this out, I then did lineart on top of it using a combination of a Sharpie brush pen, Faber Castel Polychromos pencil and layout bond paper (you could also use tracing paper).  Then I scanned it in and cleaned it up using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

I had to cut off some part of it for the crop though... I wanted it to be a vaguely square shape. 

After that I move on to Procreate: 

I make the lineart layer transparent and create the background color (though I change this later). 

I made Raven one separate color to work off of and Beast Boy another color on a separate layer. 

I lay out the rough colors and merge the layers, this way I can see what I'm going to change later-- I decided to change a lot. 

Of all the things I did, the most important I think is adding a texture layer over everything on an Overlay. Other than that, I did the background on a separate layer, used several different colors over the lineart on a Clipping Mask, from there I toyed with the final colors (adding the bright pinky red to BB's shirt and Raven's eyes for cohesion) and it was done!