Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Nice updates, glad to see you experimenting with CSP.  The Wonder Woman illustration came out really solid, love the dynamic lighting you incorporated on the latest one, very well done!

Thank you, CG. I know for a fact I love chiaroscuro and sharp edges. So once I saw the ref, I was like, 'Let's go!'.
I think I'm actually starting to get the basics now. I think I have the basics down, regarding layer sequence: Overpaint> Lineart> Flats>Sketch. I found digital really hard for the longest time, because I didn't know how to cover areas quickly, and I found the brushes over lapped when I used them, like a marker would. Great, if that's what I was aiming for, but most times I wasn't. Also, hard edges. I tried with the actual 'paint brushes', but then I discovered you could use pencil and pen brushes. I literary didn't know you could do that, as I thought pencils were just for sketch layers and pens for lineart ones. I found out curtesy of Steven Zapata's CSP vector layers tutorial that you can use normal brushes rather than just pen tools. The CSP course never made that explicitly clearly. I think it's just pen tools are formatted too have easier control points in order to adjust, if needed. 
Decided to have a go and try and paint the Colleen and Misty pic. Here's the flats and final render. I followed Ayeoops tutorial and applied it. Their was empty space, so I just experimented with the 'Speed lines' under the 'Figure' tool and random shapes.