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Okay, sorry it's taken so long for me to see this...I've been putting together my sketchbook and getting some other work done and haven't had a chance to cruise the boards here for quite some time.

So, tutorial, eh? Well, I guess I'm somewhat free now, for the moment. I'll try my best to do something in the next couple of days (uhoh, painting myself into a corner!) and I hope I am able to explain with some reasonable clarity what I do. It's not all that complicated, actually, so maybe it'll work.

Stay tuned.
- Dean

Okay, here goes:

I've had the idea for a while to do a pic of Mandy that's a takeoff on the famous scene in Bambi where the butterfly lands on Bambi's tail. So I did a Google search, found the pic for reference, and tried to follow it as closely as possible.
For a human, however, the head turn is just too much; so I did a couple of other heads on the same page:



Then I did a cleaner version, with yet another try at the head:



And then I decided I didn't like that head, and replaced it with one from the first page, adjusting the size and the angle:



Now the next step will be to do a final cleanup, adding a flowered sundress (flowers, butterfly - get the picture?).
I'll post that cleanup next. By the way, the Pup is in the approximate pose of Thumper in the original.

- Dean

...and here's a closeup of her face, so you can see how 'clean' the cleanup is...I do a lot of cleaning after this point, but basically the line remains somewhat rough - I like the looseness I get that way. By the way, I scan at 300 dpi.

Sure, that's the plan. I'll do the color next...maybe a few more tweaks first, though.
And it's Doug Sneyd, and he's still working for Playboy - has a fullpager in nearly every month, and has for, what, 30, 40 years? Draws beautiful girls. His website: www.bconnex.net/~dsneyd/playboy/

- Dean

NEXT...I take the paintbrush tool, select a red-brown color, and paint over the line using Overlay in the Options box. That takes care of, in Mandy's case, skin, hair, and shoes...then I take a golden yellow and do it again, at 50%, for her hair.




ALso red for the ribbons, green for the eyes, and a grayed blue for her underpants (NOTE: well, you probably already have...I've removed the dress, realizing I'll want to make it slightly transparent, and so will need another leverl for that.)



I have also slightly adjusted her head - it looked a little skewed to me this morning ( a night's sleep changes everything), so I simply selected it, chose Distort, and skewed it back the way I think it should be. Looks right now. Until morning, anyway.

Then I do the hair, eyes, lips, and ribbons - anything that will be a different color than skin. Why? No particular reason, it's just what I do. I'll use white for highlights, at varying opacity, and the same yellow as the hair, using Multiply, to darken other areas of the hair, as well as some red-brown and orange. Then I pick a skin color, starting with a warm, slightly yellowish tan, at perhaps 35%, and use the bucket tool to fill the face. Then I add a little magenta, but not too much to make it cool - 15%, and then in this case, that looked too dark, so I added some white.




Then I sample the face, and use the bucket (assuming all the lines are closed - which they weren't) to fill the rest of the body, and a slight blue with a bit of the flesh color for the pants.



All this takes longer to type and post than to do...
Next - shading. I'll leave the dog and butterfly for last, because I need to use the main figure as the touchstone - everything must work with her colors when she's finished, including the eventual forest background.