Although I work Digitally, the early stages of my work resemble pencil illustrations. I was trained as an Illustrator just a year or two before everything went digital. I find these traditional processes to be helpful to the overall look and feel of the image as well as providing necessary touchstones for my client throughout the process.

At this stage I will add a color wash. Much like a traditional oil pick out or water color wash this just adds the basic undercoat of color.

This final step of the process is like adding the icing to your cake. tightening up areas that need work and adding highlights and reflections.

In this stage I add darker values and washes of grey to add more depth.

This is the stage where things start to come together. Adding depth and detail to the color wash

After a bit of adjustment from client feedback we have our final. At this stage some level and hue adjustments are all that really happen.