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My paintings usually start in alchemy where I block out the forms and overall shapes of the character. Some of the basic structures and forms dictating pose and costume are made here. I then take the image into photoshop and blend the overall thing with smudge tools and a flat brush. I move bits around with transformation tools to refine the pose. I will also glaze in more costume ideas with a multiply layer. Just before I start to decide color I'll cut the character out from the background so i can balance the background from the foreground and make sure the character stands out when it's shrunk down to about 150 x 150 pixels (game size). From there I use overlays gradients and multiply blending modes to establish color. Finally I paint opaquely from there on out, with a little multiply here and there to push in the darks.