BEST CHEF - INCONSTANT PROCESS

you know the drill did the original sketch

im just gonna copy and paste what i said elsewhere


Corel Painter X: take that photoshop (even though I used it for clean up lol)

Scratchboard Tool [Pens] : To add the base colors in the image. The thick/thin thing with stylus pressure is useful as hell.

Wet Oily Brush [Artists' Oils]: To apply all of the shading and highlights. Shading at 30% opacity and highlights at 5%.

Grainy Water [Blenders]: To do the initial smoothing of the colors. Sometimes I use it again if I went overboard with the Grainy Blender. I normally blend the shaded parts first, then go again with highlights.

Grainy Blender [Blenders]: To add some texture after using the Grainy Water. The hair was the only time I used the Grainy Blender first.

Digital Airbrush [Airbrushes]: To highlight and darken certain parts of the picture on a separate layer set to Overlay. Opacity here was kept around 2-5%

An actual paper texture: Which was added on an overlay layer at less than 50% layer opacity.

Color Temperature: To get the shades/highlights to look the right colors. I learned from "Practical Light & Color" by =jermilex not to shade based on value (Shading yellow with a darker yellow, for example), but on Degress Kelvin or something like that. So for orange the shades would be more Red to Purple (with increased saturation) and highlights would be Yellow to White (because it comes less saturated at the brighter parts).