Hello to all and, to the new people, nice to meet you! I'm Miche. For this one I tried to put together a simple summary of my creative process. All those out there saying, "I could try that!" please do so!

*The tool I used was Photoshop CS2.

First I do a line drawing in mechanical pencil and put it into Photoshop. Since it's a little tough to see what's what, I do some additional drawing with the Brush tool. Finally, I erase all of the rough sketchwork and do a fairly rough drawing.

Next, I lightly add some color. I lower the brush opacity to 30% so I can see the line art while I color. I have four layers: the background, the table in the foreground, the girl, and her hair. I color in all the parts on their respective layers. And that finishes off all the non-prep work!

Next, I lightly add some color. I lower the brush opacity to 30% so I can see the line art while I color. I have four layers: the background, the table in the foreground, the girl, and her hair. I color in all the parts on their respective layers. And that finishes off all the non-prep work!

Next, I lightly add some color. I lower the brush opacity to 30% so I can see the line art while I color. I have four layers: the background, the table in the foreground, the girl, and her hair. I color in all the parts on their respective layers. And that finishes off all the non-prep work!

From here on, all the work will be focused on just filling things in. I lower my Brush to 20% and quickly color things in so they pop out. The eyes at the center of this image will be the part I fill in the most, so I proceed to work with the eyes as my focus.

I color in even more. I add another layer and lay in some red over the edge of the eye, which I do often because I personally like it.

I lower the new layer's opacity to about 10%.

I'm coloring with red for this image, but it might be fun to try it with a purple or bluish color. For females, it might make it seem like something they've done with makeup.

I'm coloring with red for this image, but it might be fun to try it with a purple or bluish color. For females, it might make it seem like something they've done with makeup.

By the way, the above method is also how I color the lips.

When the coloring for the face is pretty much done, I color the hair. I start painting with a brush of about 20 px, gradually reducing its size.

Keeping aware of the flow of each strand, I color so it feels like I'm layering on the hair. I feel it looks better just to fill in the parts I want to show, rather than draw in every detail of the hair.

Finally, I adjust the contrast, and it's done.

Thank you very much for sticking with me all the way to the end!