 Hello, bonjour ! Today I want to show you how to make this type of painting from scratch using the software Krita. It's an ambitious project because I want to stop at each step and try to break down what I have in mind when I take some decisions. So it might take time, but I hope it will make a very good video. So let's start. The production of this video was sponsored thanks to the supporters of my webcomic. I'll tell a bit more at the end of the video. I would like to start this tutorial with a little introduction of how I customize my Krita interface, and for that I will launch a little script I made that wipes all my preferences and so I can usually test Krita without my customizations. And here we go. This is the interface of Krita. I will resize a little bit the windows. If I try to click anywhere, it will not work. And this is because all these elements are located by default when you launch Krita. You need to create a new file at first, custom document, create, and then you will be able to move things around. So on the first thing I'm doing, I reduce the size of this icon here. They are big by default because Krita is also a program that is on Android and for the touch device and touch screen, it's good to have big icon for the big fingers. But here I have a mouse and a tablet so I can right click and reduce that to 16 by 16. Then I will shrink this to a single column. I also customize the advanced color selector here. So pick the little button here on the corner of the advanced color selector and I click on the preview and select the square shape of the color selector. I press OK. And why I'm doing this? Because I like to have my value scale like this. So I can see something a bit in the middle and something dark and something bright. I'm not using the little shade selector here. So I will reopen the setting and go to the shade selector and say type not show do not show. I also usually put my brush preset list. That's all this icon of the brush as a second column. So for this, I grab the title of the docker and so I can move it. And then I bring it on the top column like this and I release the button. And now I will plug the layer just under the advanced color selector. It's a bit wobbly but you can manage to do that. And I will resize it so I have a little bit more space on my list of brush. The list of brush and the icon size I can reduce it. So there is a little hamburger menu here. You can click it and reduce the icon size. I also do not use the tab of Krita and tab is when you create more than one document like two or three and you get the new document by tab on the top here. I prefer a mod that is named subwindows but that is not the default. You can go into setting, configure Krita and under window you will find here the option multiple document mode and by default it's tab and I switch it to subwindows. So when you are using subwindows the main windows that you will work will be maximized and you will get the command here under your window manager button. So I will just reduce all of them and you can see that all my documents are like little windows that I can manage how I want on my canvas. So for example putting one here or one here but it unlocks also a menu here windows and you have access to Cascade that Cascade all the windows open and till that auto tile the document open this way. I usually need more icon on the top toolbar of Krita and to add them I will go to setting, configure toolbar and this panel will show you two columns. So one column here will be all the available action and all the available icon you can plug on your toolbar and this will be like a representation in vertical of your horizontal toolbar. But as you can see you have only new open save undo and redo and that's only this little part here. If you want to access this big part it's a bit hidden because you can see that toolbar here refers to just this little things here and here and it's a little bit hidden by default but you have to click this and brush and stuff will be the other toolbar here. Something that I like is the brush option slider 3 brush option slider 3 and if you want this one to be on this list you have this little arrow here. So press this one and the slider will join the list and we will move it also down so 1, 2, 3. I hit apply and then I have a third one that is on the top. I prefer to have the opacity in second and the size in first or something like that. I also need a lot more icon here so I will continue and I will just plug on the list various icon like the stabilizer off and on here and then I will put a little undo and save button and because on the first toolbar there is also this feature that I don't need I'm just removing them. I also like to customize a little bit what appears on the canvas. I dislike by default the color it's a too bright gray so if you go to setting configure Krita and if you go to display grid setting I have no idea why it's in grid because this is not a grid but you have the canvas border color here and if you click on it you can pick a deeper gray and now I will customize the cursor so here you can see what we call the brush outline and for that I go to setting configure Krita in general and here I have option for the brush cursor so there is no cursor actually and there is only the brush outline it's the preview outline. I made a big article about the cursor and the outline on my blog and you will find probably the link into the description but in a nutshell I advise to take or the small circle so it will be a little small circle cursor always at the center or a triangle that is right-ended or left-ended depending of your way to handle a stillness and last customization is about the tool option docker so the tool option docker is a very important docker in Krita because if you click on any tool here in your toolbar on the left you will see that the content is changing depending of the tool but I really dislike to have this one plugged by default and hide behind the color selector because I can't really see what happened in it and when I need to access it I need to hide the color and go back so I find it really more convenient to get the tool option as an icon between these two that I can click and get the tool option appearing here and to set the tool option like that you need to go to setting configure Krita into general into tools and here you will have the option tool option location and it says it needs a restart of Krita and I will say now in toolbar not in a docker I press okay and then I restart Krita and if I create a new file and I will pick A4 at 300 ppi so this part will be filled with this preset and then RGB 8 byte and sRGB for the profile it's a something very default and I press create you will see that my tool option now are on the top toolbar here so if I select another tool it reflect directly on this button I will finnalise the customization with one things it will be to plug here the overview docker so I will go to setting docker and find the overview here so I click on it and this is a representation of what is on your canvas so if I do a shape like this you will see it in little and this is very convenient to get a sort of distant view of your artwork so by default overview received some feature over the years with the zoom the rotation many buttons and I prefer to deactivate that because I can also zoom with control and space on my keyboard without buttons I can also rotate with shift and space on my keyboard as I want and I can also pan the canvas around with space and I can navigate so I don't really need all of this and so you have here a little pin on the bottom of the overview docker and if you click here the little button will disappear but you can still move your mouse or your tablet over and access this type of menu so this is very convenient and once the overview docker is like that I just take it and I plug it here on the corner and then I maximize Krita for this tutorial I will use the default preset set you know that on my blog and on my channel I share a lot of brushes but I thought it would be more interesting for this tutorial to start with the default set of brush so that's all for customization so now what to draw as I'm recording this I have no idea what I want to do is probably to go to the Krita artist forum here on Kritaartist.org and I will see what is the monthly contest so I'm scrolling down to contest and monthly art contest and the monthly art contest this is always with a little pin in front is draw Kiki the Krita mascot in your own style that will be funny so you can access here the thread the idea was submitted by Grum999 and yes that looks really fun so I'm clothing that and now I will start to think what it means to draw Kiki in my own style I think the best thing to do in order to do that is to collect some references my favorite tool for that is not in Krita itself it's an external software that runs also on Linux but also on other platform I guess and it's Bref here you can see the icon and I'm clicking on it and I have the Bref windows appearing on my second screen so I will bring it here and Bref just collect a lot of image quickly and I will just grab some picture and make a little time lapse about what I'm grabbing copying and pasting in Bref so here is the document I collected and this is only a openly sunset content and you have the mascot official design by Taizen Tan and this photo by Aspanasiewicz Maxim on Wikimedia Commons and these are public domain photos so I selected this picture that I made recently of paper and this is the type of composition that I will try to replicate on this tutorial I will save this document and during this tutorial I will move it into my second monitor so you will not see it if you don't have two monitors you can just resize Bref like this on a column on the side of your screen and there is also I think it's orange vertical that will put everything into a column if you need that next to your creator so now let's start to draw so I will switch my mouse to my stylus in my hand I will start to zoom a little bit on this canvas I need to do some thumbnail first because if I do some little drawing I will have a better idea of how I can handle my composition and how I handle the pose the tilt of the face and everything I want to storytell on this picture so at first staring at a white background like that on my screen is very difficult I have to reduce a little bit the the backlight so what I did here is just to select a mid-gray color and press shift and backspace on my keyboard but you can find it edit fill with foreground color you can also lock here with the little pad lock on the layer so you will not accidentally draw on this you see the cursor now is a little ploy by that symbol and we create a new layer on the top with the little plus here and you can name it and I will select a brush from the default there is this one that I like charcoal rock soft from the list I will select this one and I will pick not the pure black color but something like a maybe 10% black I will reduce the size of the brush because it's a bit too large by default I hit control Z to undo and I press shift and I hold the key and I drag the brush to be smaller a bit like the tip of a large felt pen so I think I want a portrait for the format of the of the document but not something too stretchy like this not something that is closer to a square so I will do one like that and I pray control J on the keyboard and just duplicate it like this three time and then I press control E to merge them back to thumbnail so I have here my three thumbnail they are not perfectly aligned I can rotate this I press control plus T on the keyboard and it will select the transform tool here on the toolbar and then I can rotate them a little bit and press enter on the keyboard to bake the pixels and I will press B again to switch back to the brush and be able to draw if I want to erase something I will press E on the keyboard or just click on this icon here to switch to the eraser so the eraser is just the same brush that I selected here but now it erases so that's probably not a lot done so far but it's probably wise to save the document I like to finish it by a underscore 001 so I can save multiple version in this situation I don't have a lot of choice when you do a portrait I have I have to think about the value of the composition at first and you have the situation where you have a strong silhouette on a bright background or you have the situation where you have a dark background and a bright silhouette like that and of course you have also all the situation where you can balance that with one side a lot of shadow and then it's the background that is dark but on the other side the background is brighter well you understand there is also a situation where all the picture is low contrast like if the character was in the fog so maybe there is other and I forget them on the top of my head right now when I recording but that's to just show you what big picture of value we can think and I think that for this illustration I want to go with this one mainly because we have Kiki and we saw that this cyber squirrel is in white so if I want to make some effect of light on her hair like that it will shine a little bit more on the dark setting like that so what I imagine for for Kiki here is to get a maybe a shy character with a eye like this probably the head that tilt a little bit downward because it's a shy character maybe it's a bit cliche but a scarf around her I want the squirrel ears even if it's not part of the original design so here it's not the the type of composition I want because Kiki also has an interesting haircut so I would pick a selection tool will draw around this little thumbnail and press control T and resize so I have more room on the top of the character and she has this type of shape that is like a lotus and I want to make this but with real hair on her design and she has also an interesting type of hair bang in front I don't I think it's it's called this way sorry for my vocabulary so maybe a scarf and probably the shoulder a bit a bit high so the head a bit low on the shoulder a very shy person probably I would imagine her as a heart student and probably on the background by night some distant neon symbol of the big city like that and we can probably have a some spotlight above her head so it will be visible here also there and probably some black on her on her clothes this because I see that black is part of her design a lot and probably a big source of pink will be on the background and the neon symbol so for the color contrast that I'm looking for you can already paint it as a thumbnail it's good to to get some ideas on time I would like something that is a really interesting twist on on Kiki Kiki that you usually don't see this way it's for the fun probably I will not use that much of white because a good contrast with this blue here you see that I have some bright yellow right in front almost right in front and I know that white reflect color red light a lot so maybe maybe maybe it can be good to have slightly greenish because going more green it's going more deep blue slightly greenish light and I'm sure I want a deeper effect on the background so what I do is I select a blending mode for my brush so the color will just now start to merge differently with the color on the canvas I can take multiply this one darken only darken but probably I want something that increase a little bit the contrast and this one is overlay here so if you don't have it in your favorite list on the top I think it's part of the default but maybe I customize it also this list and it can be on the mix I think let's see yes mix it's overlay so checkbox here I will not explain that for all the blending mode on this tutorial so overlay and I will take a dark blue maybe on overlay and I will boost like this I will deepen the value around the character and because overlay is one of these blending mode that darken under the mid-gray and brighten over the mid-gray I will also get this type of burnt contrast if I do that also on the top a little bit so I'm launching now a time-lapse because I want to go through a couple of revision and I will probably switch brushes for something a little bit more sharp on the way but except that it's still the same process I want to increase the balance of this one I will press Ctrl R put a big selection around this press T on keyboard just to move tool and move everything I will deselect you can find it in select deselect here I map at this one to control D on my keyboard because I think it's easier than pressing 3k at once the default of criticize is control shift a and for me it's it's difficult to do that with one hand and I press control T just to move them so now I have more room on the on the side to continue this little quest and I will duplicate this one because now I want to just increase the the color effect but for that I will use layers not layers but I will use filters the filters are here on Krita and you have adjustment filters and this is a lot of tools that can influence your colors you are for example on the classic the desaturate one that turn everything black and white you will find also the very classic one you saturation h8s v adjustment you saturation value and you can desaturate so turning more to black and white are very saturated and make all the color very popping and it's not very well to do that but the one that I will use now is filter adjust and color balance this color balance filter has three big category the highlight the mid tone and the shadow and on our picture it's easy that if I want my shadows of darker parts to be a little bit more cyan I just have to take the slider and go a little bit more cyan and this is interesting because you can see I will check in and check the preview it's bright and all the picture but it changed also all the color into one direction that is very interesting to me so I will uncheck the preserve luminosity yeah I already bug reported about this but this is complex about luminosity and color if you uncheck this it will visually preserve more the luminosity as you can see so it doesn't really make sense but I prepare to uncheck it by default and I will push it a little bit more in the cyan like this cyan you can see before after it's a slight saturation but I think it it works better and on the highlight so on the hair maybe I also want to put this cyan and see what it does and I think it's interesting so I lost a lot of shiny but it's like if now the highlight of the character is more inside the scene it's not like if there is a special color red color of studio that divide this character from the environment so I like that and I would select now this color and you see that we are now clearly into the green territory but the pitch the the local color almost read it as a yellow one I really like when this is happening it's mean that the the ambient of the piece is starting to work together I will just push it a little bit so this is a bright light but because I still have the multiply blending mode on my brush it's going darker and darker and that's not what I want so you can press here the little reload original preset that will that will clean the preset as when it was default before we put this multiply blending mode on it and it will come back to normal you can also press and come back to normal but I usually do that so I have my color selected and now I have this like cold highlight and that's what I wanted when I took the reference photo of the kitten and of the of everything I wanted so this bright color hair color are you maybe I'm too influenced by teaching me on my reference board because now yes I read and I said the yellow read green but I actually want her to be white white hair so I will probably do some modification I will probably switch to the HSY color blending mode I think it's part of the default also so color and now if I color something it will just affect the color and I will probably try slowly because this brush preset I can press lightly on the on the stylus and get a very thin glazing so here I glaze to just make all the hair colder so they don't appear anymore yellow it's kiki I want her hair to be white and I think it's revealing more and more what I'm really after not luminosity but I will take maybe screen a blending mode that brighten only I think I want some dramatic light some sort of blade runner setting for kiki the cyberscreen rail and I want this contrast of white hair that is a sort of a cliche in anime so now I have my thumbnail done I know where I want to go in terms of colors of contrast of value and of character poses and there is no detail accessories and everything but this will come on the next part our next step is to clean up a little bit all the volumes and all the the poses and everything because even if it works like that as a thumbnail scale I can guarantee that once I will start to detail it I will start to find a lot of problem in terms of proportion in terms of hand anatomy and everything and if I just keep painting like that on the top I might take more time I will be totally able to do that but I will just take more time than if I just do a drawing a better drawing of it so you will see I will save this it will be my first version and I will press file save incremental version and when I press incremental version you will see that the file quickly changed to zero zero two now so incremental if it's find a number in your file it will just try the number after so if it's zero zero one it will go zero zero two so now you understand why I named my file this way because it's very convenient for me so I will press control R do a big selection around the thumbnail that I don't want anymore keep this thumbnail and because I have a A4300 PPI and this is a good resolution I will do a little selection around this and I will stretch now this to my canvas so you'll see I have I will have to crop a little bit the the hard work I'm cropping with the crop tool a little bit so now you can see that I might 33% of the viewport here on the bottom of the screen and that means that the real pixel appears if I zoom like three times these are real pixel but because my screen is pretty dense into pixel you see that I have to zoom a lot in Krita to see the actual pixel so that's why we resized the the thumbnail to 2400 something by 3000 something it's to get this type of pixel density I will create a new layer above the thumbnail here and on this layer I will redraw a little bit the part that I need so I will put the thumbnail layer into low opacity so I can see better what I will do with drawing and on the drawing layer I will pick like this one basic size detail and I will start to redraw the face of Kiki and you will see that I left on the recording a lot of indication about what I'm doing you will see a lot of guideline you will see a lot of visual explanation and even if I accelerate I hope it will be still visible and it will give you some hint about what I'm doing before continuing I will just do another incremental saving save incremental version and so now we are on the third step where we sort of blend together our drawing and our colors from the thumbnail for that I will just restore the 100% color of the thumbnail as you can see it's a mess on the screen and it's not really easy for example when you have dark object to know what's going on for example for the backpack here as I have some very dark value and now I totally lost my edges same for this because it was describing a shoulder but now the shoulder isn't existing anymore because I have my scarf here so everything like that make it's very difficult to read of course for the burn for the eyes and everything it's easier to manipulate the thumbnail when it's a little bit brighter here I will do another technique it's filling a layer with white so at the start of the tutorial I show you that you can fill with foreground with shift and backspace and that's what I did for this layer it's a temporary layer so I will just rename it with a little dots on it and I will just remove the opacity a little bit so now everything is brighter it's like a sort of overlay so I can just turn it on and off and see what I do on the thumbnail clean I will select a brush that deforms it's a distored move and it's in the default brush so this brush distored everything like this and you can move everything it's like liquefy but in real time and the trade-off of being real time is it make everything goes very blurry so if you have tiny detail like that and you use it there will be lost but our thumbnail doesn't have precious detail and I just want to move the mass of color here and there so now everything moving not really in place you can see we have a ear of Kiki that is not painted at all we made the dark a pointy tip there is a lot of things that can be improved but it's at least a little better than this in term of readability and when I will put this one to zero it will works a little bit better but now the picture is very dark because our drawing imputes a lot of darkness you see it's like increasing a lot the darkness compared to to our thumbnail and that's because our line are dark I'm aiming for a rendering without line so this line are just skyline and I will turn them into a blending mode that is the grain merge so you will find it under mix maybe yeah grain merge if it's not part of your favorite and I will put this one and green merge as you immediately see the dark line over bright area start to become brighter this only this already improve a little bit the situation and I will reduce the opacity quite a lot probably like that 50% I like a rounded number so we still have our original thumbnail the deformation and now our drawing and I will continue to take a rounded brush so I will make thumbnail just to compare our step thumbnail clean some nail painting but maybe and this is a sort of coating of painting under the lines so I will pick a brush for this maybe this one the basic size opacity testing yeah good right now I'm just used to one that has a little bit more hardness on pressure so I will probably customize it a little bit this way that looks good and the brush tip maybe to to be a little bit more interesting I will just squeeze a little bit the ratio and give it a little angle like that yeah so I will save this brush before that I'm picking a black color because I want to paint on the on the thumbnail of the brush so I will put save new brush presets just to see that this is my brush I will just draw something over it you have here the low add from icon library where you can choose what tip you want for your brush so if you want to make your custom brush there is like tools you can change the color yellow let's take a yellow I will draw here the stroke and show that this is a tilted shape and I will call it basic 5 opacity so this is a brush that glaze a little bit at low opacity so on my tablet if I pick a color like this and I just press slightly you'll see I obtained some glazing you can see transparency but if I press a little bit harder I replace the color so I will try to adapt the color palette with this type of brush and of course this brush has a hard edge it means that you see the border it's very thick here on the side sometimes the brush of Krita are optimized for very very very low performances so the brush runs fast but you can see that there is here a problem with the spacing I have the shape that repeats not enough so you have this visible on big stroke that's a little problem for our tutorial and I will just reduce the spacing so I open again the brush editor and the spacing is to 20% yes no wonder why I will just lower it to maybe 5% maybe a little more 6% let's go and size the curve could be a little bit more harder it's just because my still start to get tired on this old tablet and I need a curve like that more and more to experience slow low pressure okay I will not save the fact that it's a eraser I'm testing yeah this brush looks good let's overwrite this brush preset so now I have a brush and I can do some spiky shape I usually or just draw quickly like this and just remove so I color set I color select with a control and just remove other part you see I can do very sharp spike so a sort of rounded brush like that for me is is what I use actually at that point I start to be blocked by a lot of line from my line art it's when I start to paint and you see the line by transparency stop to prevent me to do some fix for example at this other eyes I start to see that here I would like to probably fix the volume from another view angle but you see I have this edge here that prevents me to do that and that's a problem with line art and with drawing and that's why I dislike to just paint under because while painting I often spot a lot of mistakes and that's why at this point what I will do is just to select all the artwork like this and go to edit copy merged and control V projection but here now you can see that this is like a solid picture and I probably don't need all this layer under now so I will do some little cleaning like this this this and the thumbnail I will probably merge like this like this like this and I usually name that under it's like the under paint I keep the drawing along because it's fun to to get the the first idea and this way I can still blink and see if something is weird so for example here you see that I pushed the iris and this line that bugs me is actually the iris itself and yes I felt that I had to fix that so I will do it now and I will probably launch a time lapse for all of that so you would see me hiding the layer and trying to to recover some part of the drawing that I couldn't do that before the paint over of our piece is sticking shape there is no problem about it so I can show you the paint over layer right now and compare it with what we had before so I made a lot of painting on the shape of the face and try to fix it I'm not super satisfied with that I will continue on tweaking this but I wanted to stop the time lapse for now just to show you something that I start to be a little bit annoyed with something and it's with the value and I have a very big range of value here and this is interesting maybe I can show a docker the histogram so where are you hiding here so I will unfold it and put here so I'm pretty happy with how we have some dark part of our picture here so this is all the pixels that are dark so there is a blue one the green one and the red one and we have a very good dark palette and a few pixels that are on the bright and there is this type of curve that is really typical to the to the value setting I explained in the start when we started the thumbnail so a very dark environment and some point of light that's why in this painting for example this totally normal red you see it's even not if I if I show it on the the color palette it's even not the most saturated or the most bright one I still have a lot of room but already a red like that really shine a lot in a dark environment like that but I think I can push it a little bit more I think the this part here can move a little bit this way so I have sort of to darken the gamma of the piece I think it it's a little bit too bright and also I think that my highlight here you can see that they are still not white but they are almost full white and I don't like that because I saw that on my recent painting experience that's going to pure white should be really reserved to to some light source that face the camera because we work on a flat layer it's just on the top of our layer stack but it's easy to just duplicate it and I will name it adjust and I will also duplicate it so I can see my adjustment before and after control M and this is the color adjustment of Krita the curves and you can find also them in filter adjust and let's see color adjustment curve here control M and so I made a video about curves and about adjustments where you can see more gamic filters and everything but for this piece I just want to take the white part of the pixel here and just lower it a little bit so doing it this way just it's like hiding a layer of darkness on the top it's not what I really want I want just to probably here you see lowering this part but if I lower this part because the curve of Krita is like that you lower also all the dark and everything so it's it's really difficult with this tool to just selectively the highlight darken them but if you create a lot of node on your on your curve it's possible so this way review and you can see that here the highlight that were totally burnt I can lower them and make a selection about that so that's what I will continue to do probably lowering and lowering them nice so now I feel that I have more room to just draw more highlight on this artwork and that was sort of important for me I also lost something that I wanted at the thumbnail now I have this light that is very cold it's because I wanted to make a skin shading that was very a white but now it's look like a bit pink and I wanted to save this pink for another part so I will apply this like this like that and because the effect is slightly too strong I can reduce the opacity like that yes maybe and just merge down okay now I want to probably recover some greenish highlight so I can do this with a curve but I can also do this more simply with the color balance I will go on the highlight and getting into the yellow territory maybe yeah and checking preserve luminosity maybe and I have something that is closer to what I want now the hair still looks a little bit white maybe I just push a little too much but now they are a material they are not a source of light and that's what I wanted and there is also all this bed here of a bed because this is an expression but it's an environment here that I want to push into this direction a little bit so I would like I will call again the curve and I will lower just a little bit the the black part so now before to move to more adjustment on the background I need to add some more detail on the background so I will launch a time lapse where I paint a little bit more this background I totally dislike how the value of the background has start to compete with the character so I have some darkness and some light part here on the character and they are really too similar with the background so I will create a new layer and I will put the mode into lighten the blending mode lighten you will find it if it's not part of the default in the lighten category here and I will pick a big airbrush like this one and on this lighten layer I will just take a bright color like that and I will just paint a very subtle a like fog on on this maybe I can add a little bit texture to that so on the default set of Krita you have this little checker box red near to the brush that produce a lot of texture so maybe this one texture wood fiber it's not really texture for wood this is just an example but it makes some you see some big line and I don't want to suggest some rain but I want to make some more interesting stuff in the background just as I said it will be blurry after and that might do the trick I will also put some random just little stain here with the brush texture splat splatter so it can be dust in the environment it can be many things and then I will pick a brush eraser brush the eraser circle and I will just erase the character from this blue haze and texture the thumbnail now is way easier to read and I like this effect so and probably a part that doesn't work really well for the silhouetting is the burn of the top left one this one so I just come with a small brush that this one the Bristol for glaze and I'm glazing just gentle stroke here and there yeah like that maybe it's easier to read and there is this burn now that I think that still don't have enough contrast so I will come back to the overlay we saw it on the thumbnail and I will just paint dark gray stroke here under so it will improve a little bit the the contrast on it here I have a stroke that overlay this color and it make a saturation burst into the green it's not really what I want so I'm erasing this part as you can see I'm not zooming in a lot in my artwork I try to to keep the the general idea I also don't like how the ears are square ears not really really blending into the piece yeah there is something that that bugs me mainly because they look really animal right now I think the piece could work so much better without them and Kiki would probably looks a little bit more human but probably that's something I want to achieve here and now I want to blur this background also that's something I don't do just right at the end I prefer to do it before doing a pass of small brush polishing so what I do here is I will create a filter mask on this layer but for that it's easier to just launch the filter I want to do so I'm going to filter blur and I will go to lens blur so I will keep probably the the same type of blur pentagon and I will put just a larger radius until it looks like something distant in the background like this I like because I still can guess that this is a bill board like this is a little city in the background and there is still some data here reading maybe I overdid it yes maybe like that and I will create a filter mask so right now it the filter mask is white and it means it's on in all the picture white is on and black is off so what I will do is I will just pick a brush and I will start with maybe a very strong a jet brush maybe the one I made it's a good one and I will come with black and I will just reveal the sharp detail of my painting like that so I'm doing the character and the brush in a hair and certainly it gives a lot of depth to the artwork because the eyes is able to probably see the difference between background and foreground more easily so that's something blur and camera effect that I slowly insert more and more in my artwork and someone asked me to do this tutorial about my newest art style so this is one that includes a lot of things like that like that something I like to do is to take a airbrush now pick some white and you see the edge of the character maybe the camera can focus on the nose on the eyes but all of this part that turn in the distance just blurring them a little bit sometimes it helps at doing a little something now I would like to push the little details of the painting you can see that the brush here they could be pushed a little bit more the neck here is not readable at all the eyes could have better and thinner edge and I will start a timelapse because I probably will spend now the longest time in this piece so probably one big hour of detailing yes detailing has a high price on the on the artwork and I could probably let it like that for the contest because it could be like a speed painting and the picture is already telling a lot but let's try to push this one to something a little bit more finish so I know I'm reaching the last part of the artwork because now each painting stroke I put on it I think I have to deal with a lot of testing before after and I think I start to destroy the piece so that's a good sign for me that the artwork is done I will try to archive now the file and in order to do so I will probably just merge all the layer in my paint over layer so I will select it and go to convert to paint layer so now my group is a single layer and I remove the merged I renamed the layer and now I can compare to all the big step of the drawing so the paint over the drawing and the under painting because I have a lot of pixel outside the canvas what I will do is I will go to trim to image size and this will remove the pixel outside the canvas so the field size will be smaller this way and now my file is ready to archive and I will probably go to save incremental for a last saving and yep I will call that a final so I'm recording this final segment one day after the shooting and the realization of this artwork because I usually put a night on all my artwork and when I wake up the day after I have like a fresher eyes on some small but some fundamental problem usually on the artwork and that's the case for this one so I will just duplicate my paint over a layer and I will do the modification in this one and I will press Ctrl G to put that in a group so now I will have a group if I do more layer I can turn off and on the group so that was a lot of work I hope you enjoyed the video I want to thanks here all the supporters of my web comic they are on Liberapay Patreon and also TP if you can join them thank you very much I only receive donation except for Liberapay but on TP and Patreon the main platform I receive donation only when I publish a new episode of pepper and carrot and that is happening very rarely now so like two time or three time per year just because I'm focusing a lot on the quality and I'm opening all the process so I'm opening the storyboard to the community and we do a lot of proofreading a lot of review and I also write it in French so we do the translation after in English before posting and all this organization take a lot of time but also all the polishing that I put in the panel takes a lot of time and by having a lot of supporters I can invest my time into this type of quality and also still get some days to explain on the blog my process and also make this type of video and making a video like this take time like one day for shooting maybe one day for the ideas and for taking notes and doing the video editing and posting etc etc etc so thank you very much if you can help me to continue to do this type of work for everything else subscribe button like a comment you know what to do to please the algorithm if you can thank you very much and see you later bye bye