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Hello everyone here's a quick sketch before I hit the sack! Enjoy! Started doing these GIFs of my work.

Exotic illustration step by step tutorial

Welcome to another series of step by step tutorial. 

I did this digital painting of monkeys in a jungle for my exotic entry for Illustration Friday. :)
This illustration was quite a challenge, since there are a lot of characters in the artwork. Doing different expressions and making the artwork blend together was my main challenge here.

steps in animation

I started out with a simple line sketching in photoshop. These are very loose quick strokes just to position the elements, these are just guides and will be deleted later on. Next step is to create another layer to make the line drawing. Then blocking out the shapes using base tones. Checking how dark or light the image is. 

Next is coloring the artwork, initially I wanted the monkeys to be blue, to make them look exotic, but when I look at it, they don't blend with the artwork well. So I changed them to brown but made their faces blue. :)

Next are the monkeys!!! This took a while since each monkey has a different character. I only use one brush for this piece adobe photoshop round brush with opacity 50% and flow at 20%.

When I'm done with the details I look on the overall and checked the lighting using photoshop's auto tone and contrast. And it's finished! :)

illustration friday exotic

My entry for this week's illustration friday. Topic is exotic. :)