I would like to share my process here:
Step 1: Sketching: Building a model for success
At this stage, I sketch, erase a lot and generally lay the foundations down.

Step 2:Fill it with a color: Like toning your paper in a painting class taken years ago...
At this stage I fill the figure with color because I’m going to create a new layer above this one which will be clipped to it, to help speed up coloring.

Step 3: Putting the true colors in: Now I place my true colors where they belong in their respective spots on the figure.

Step 4: Trying to figure out light and shadow

Step 5: Slowly building upon colors and the colors that came before them and so on...

Step 6 : I just kept trying things with brushes, different, shades, and highlights to get here...

Step 7: It was getting late so I just tacked something in the background for good measure.

Now I call it complete!
THE RETURN
Klepp
@ 1:53 PM Jan 19th