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Step 1: Reference.

I took the idea from this photo of Hatsune Miku World Is Mine figure. So, this picture have nothing original or semantic, it is just fan art, drawn for personal pleasure only.

Step 2: Sketch.

Analog Media Mechanical pencil 2B 0.5 Kneaded eraser

Step 3: Lineart.

Analog Media Pen .005 Kneaded eraser Photoshop Brightness/Contrast Tool Eraser Tool Mode: Brush Opacity: 100% Flow:100% Other Dynamics: off Here is the layer structure for this picture*.

Step 4: Base colors.

SAI Ink Pen Tool** Density:100% Shape: Simple Circle Edge Hardness: 0 Hard<->Soft: 0 Pressure affects Density: off Eraser Tool Density:100% Shape: Simple Circle Edge Hardness: 0 Hard<->Soft: 12 Pressure affects Density: off

Step 5: Background base.

SAI Brush Tool Density: 100% Shape: Simple Circle Blending: 11 Dilution: 9 Persistence: 80 Keep Opacity: no Edge Hardness: 67 Hard<->Soft: 100 Pressure affects Density: on

Step 6: Background and figure details.

SAI Brush Tool The same settings as above Acryl Tool Density: 82% Shape: Spread 88 Blending: 7 Dilution: 0 Persistence: 74 Keep Opacity: no Edge Hardness: 0 Max Density Pressure: 60% Hard<->Soft: 128 Pressure affects Density: on Airbrush Tool Density: 84% Shape: Simple Circle Edge Hardness: 0 Max Density Pressure: 100% Hard<->Soft: 100 Pressure affects Density: on Also, for more smooth color blending I tint the lineart. It looks like this.

Step 7: Shapes correction.

Photoshop Liquify Filter and Transform Tool To change shapes Sharpen Tool To remove blur after applying transformation ★It isn't a magic solution for shape correction. The less is using of these tools, the better. Here is a closeup that shows how Liquify and Transform Tools blur image. So you have to give time to removal of these marks manually anyway.

Step 8: Overlay details and color adjustment.

SAI Brush Tool and Acryl Tool The same settings as in Step 5 Photoshop Levels To adjust brightness range of the most dark point, the most light point, and midtones of image Layers Use power of blending modes*** Burn Tool Hardness: 0% Range: Midtones Exposure: 15% Sponge Tool Hardness: 0% Mode: Saturate Flow: ~30%

*There are tons of "How to Color Lineart" tutorials on the web, so I didn't devote time to this point.

**Some described brushes have settings like 27% or 83%, of course, it doesn't mean that 25% or 85% would work otherwise. When I read tutorial by an artist I love, I always try to make precisely the same values with hope that is makes my skills better, but it never worka. Such precision is necessity in exact sciences, but not in drawing/painting. 1% doesn't make a difference.

***There are a lot of variations that give very different results, and description of all of them can make up single tutorial. For this picture I want to make the shadows more mild and to make color scheme more entire. I made this in the following way: A new layer above all other layers was filled with #c38bef, its blending mode was changed to Overlay with Opacity value ~15%. It gave a light cold tint to the whole image.

Here and here are close-ups of roses from finished picture.
Here is color chart for this picture and downloadable swatches set for Photoshop.

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