Everyone has days when they suddenly want to draw a Barrett M82. Rough.

Drawing the preliminary sketch based on the rough. At this stage, I do some pose adjustments; I decided it would be "just after firing", so I raised the muzzle slightly.

Trace the sketch.

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First color the skin, then hair, clothes, and finally rough coloring for the weapon. I'm not good at effects...

I also drew the poor black swallowtail butterfly that's going to be blown to pieces.

I thought it'd be cooler to have the shell casing flying, but apparently they don't actually fly up so I fixed that.

Cut out the masking area. In my case, I lock the transparency for this.

Layer

To apply toning, add pin lights and soft lights to a new layer.

I drew lots of smokey dust for the swallowtail butterfly bits (sorry about that, butterfly...), and after that, repeatedly added a japanese paper texture (burnt color: negative filter brightness 48%).

So I wouldn't be dissatisfied, I added a little more dust and put the entire body in the middle of smoke. To bring out some ambience I use new layer -> comparison (brightness) a few times. That raised the quality. (Production time: about 10 hours)