Fighter! Process

1. Simple line sketch to rough out the pose and composition of the image.

2. Black and white quick render to determine what kind of lighting looks good. Sometimes I skip this step if I'm really confident.

3. Quick flat paint of local colors to determine what colors the lights and shadows should assume.

4. More rendering via simple painting, while integrating the line sketch into the final drawing.

5. Continue rendering and look out for alternate compositions that may look better.

6. Using various modification layers such as multiply, soft light, hard light etc, render out the lighting a bit more. Plus some final post-processing work to round it off.