Hallo again students! Today the topic of our discussion and the tutorial itself will a quick, about 1 h sketch if the character. This will be a female character and we will be using a tablet to paint this one, because there are no way you going to make it using a mere mouse.

Let's get starting.

Create a document about this size. It has the 4:3 proportions so you can create 800x 600, 1024x768 and so on.

Drawing a female character

Create a new layer because I usually leave background untouched.

Drawing a female character

Choose a brush. This is my favorite brush. It is similar to basic round brush but it is a little bit flattened on the sides. It has opacity jitter set to pen pressure and size dynamics without any settings (but still the option is turned on.

Drawing a female character

Begin the sketch. Here I'm defining the posture and the proportions of the character.

Drawing a female character



Drawing a female character



Drawing a female character



 
Drawing a female character



Drawing a female character



Drawing a female character

Well something like this; a one very fast line sketch.

Now set the brush opacity to about so.

Drawing a female character

Let's begin to deal with the value. To set the value right takes not 1 year to understand and to set it right. Moreover I'm still studying and understanding this technique.

I'm beginning to set my value from a little darker than midtones.

Drawing a female character



Drawing a female character

In this part I'm dropping some darker mids; not on the whole character but only on the part of his leg.

Drawing a female character

And on the character itself now.

Drawing a female character

I've erased the face because I didn't like it at all. I've also moved it a little bit to the left.

Drawing a female character