Hellboy baby cartoon

Hellboy baby

Inked up in Clip Studio Paint then rendered out in Photoshop.

I have been using Hi-Fi color for comics, a great resource for learning how to paint in a comic style.

For the Hi-Fi book, I used this one found here

Definitely recommend this book. You can still purchase as an online version. Just follow the above link.

The basic idea behind rendering in the above style is to paint with light. To do this you use the mode 'screen' - which essentially adds light to the base color.

Here's a close up screenshot of Hellboy baby which shows the base color (which is generally a de-saturated mid tone) and the accompanying screen color (saturated orange). 

With the color (orange) selected, you then use a brush with mode set to 'screen'. Then you start applying the brush to build up areas and give the piece that illuminated feel.
The actual brush is 'soft' with a slight texture.

**USE OF OVERLAY in layers

As I completed each body form, in this particular example - the face, I made a copy of the face and changed the layer mode to 'Overlay'. See below for example

I felt by doing this, it made the image pop more. We'll, I hope it did.

I definitely recommend if you are interested in learning more about this technique for rendering, to get the book. It has heaps and heaps of tutorials. I mean heaps.