Final Piece Progression

To begin with, I drew a basic outline of a body. I did this in order to be able to get the average proportions for the head, torso, arms and legs, and also for the pose itself.

I then spent quite a while drawing in all of the finer details, and then I hid the sketch layer, which left the lineart in its place. Unfortunately, I neglected to get screenshots of this process.

After the lineart was complete, I created a group in Photoshop where I would put all of my layers in order to keep them more organised. After this, I began colouring. I created a new layer and started with the inner shirt and the decoration of the glove. As I was colouring two things that weren't close together, I decided to do this process on the same layer. I have done this throughout my process to minimise the amount of layers.

Moving on, I created another layer and coloured in the jacket. 

Then, I created another layer. On this one, I coloured both the laces of the shoes and the cuffs of the jacket.

On another layer, the shoes and the black of the glove.

Then I moved on to the trousers.

I then moved on to the hair, where I started off by colouring it on a new layer in fully light blue.

Afterwards, I went into the blending options and chose a gradient overlay. Above are the settings I used for the overlay. This overlay is what gives my character's hair the white around the edges.

Then, I tried out many different shades for my character's skin. Eventually, I found one that looked like it fit well with the colours of the clothing.

Lastly, I coloured in the eyes and the area surrounding the eyes.

With my character finished, I decided to add a few extra touches. I used the font 'Forte' at size 60 pt in order to type out my character's name.

I rearranged how the name looked by separating the first and last name using 'enter' between them, and then I made the surname indented by pressing the 'tab' button until I was happy with it. Finally, I created a colour palette of the colours that I had used.

I then saved my work as a JPEG image.