This isn't so much a "How To..." as it is a "How I Do..." If you have any opinions or suggestions, feel free to e-mail them to me.

This won't teach you how to paint, you have to learn by practice. It's just meant to give you a step-by-step process of digital painting.

This also assumes you know how to use Adobe Photoshop.

I started by sketching a rough gesture of the character in Non-Repro blue, which I then went over with a regular 2B pencil.

Next step was scanning in this sketch. I scanned it in in Greyscale at approx. 6x9 inches, at 300 dpi. After adjusting the levels and curves I copied the Black channel to another alpha channel and renamed it Blueline. Then I set the color for the Channel to Non-Repro Blue.

I began redrawing and tightening up the original sketch in the Black Channel, with the Blueline Channel eye icon clicked on (this lets me see the Blueline channel over top of the Black channel I'm drawing on.)