9) I carried on with this character even though I don't have a very clear idea on what or where I'm going. I wanted the character to be centered in the image, but being in the middle makes any character or object lack dimension, so I had a problem with the legs, I wanted them to be apart and spaced but as you can see it looks dumb, so I kept playing around and got mad, and closed photoshop (happends a lot!)


10) I found a solution! I bent the leg and moved it slightly backwards and it seemed to work, specially after adding those paper shoes :)

11) Since I love detail, I felt a bag pack is needed to add more stuff on this guy and so I did. Although I was struggling to decide, I kept hiding and unhiding the layer and its quite frustrating. Detail comes with consequence, if i don't like a little thing I just can't let it go, I have to fix it, and that consumes time, a lot of time.


12) Color! Now before you start thinking that I might have skipped a few steps, refer to the style and process back on page one. The base color is yellow, I added 4 shades and 3 lights. For the lights I used gradients to make it more smooth. I then textured it using little shapes I made and lined it as if it was real paper. Now there are other tiny things like scratches and smudges, and they are all derived through the same process. The tapes as well, they are consisted of line art, 3 layers of shades, (no lights) they are replaced with little dots representing light. I know Shadows are not even seen in real life for tapes but in my art it is necessary because it creates this sort of attachment with the "taped-with" object and in this case it is this face.

I had several issues with color, since this piece is going to be colorful, I had to study and experiment with colors and see what is most fit. Sometimes fit colors seemed ugly after coloring other parts, so I went back and changed them. Finishing one object does not mean its done unless everything else is done.

13) I started with the coloring with the hand and again it follows the same guidelines mentioned earliar. I did not make the the white paper really white, I made it a bit grayish in order to give it more depth. Since this is paper, I did not want it to be empty, I wanted it to appear as used paper which later turned into this guy and in this case he's got some grocery to do, beans, corn flakes and milk.

14) I moved on to the collar which as you can see has pink paper fallen on it from the dudes "pinkish" hair as well, so its not a pro making this paper guy, it's some dude making a clumsy paper guy. I went for the headphones and it was quiet a challenge as the selection of colors was tough as well but turned out fine afterall. Lastly is that blue T-shirt in its early stages, you can actually see the shades still in the process and I hope that gives you an idea of how LONG this thing takes.


15) Using the same process, I carried on with the arms and Shirt. At first the Shirt was irritating, at times it seemed flat and sometimes it felt too detailed. I kept experimenting with textures in order to give a paper feel.
I use the same texture (that I made) for white and yellow paper, the rest of papers such as blue, pink, brown, etc have a different texture as they are thicker. Because this is paper, I wanted it to be see-through, but that comes with more problems because I am unsure what the background will be colored or even what it is made of, so I use this technique of creating lines, solid black and lower the opacity and you get a 3rd dimension for the artwork, and I add a white layer and lower the opacity from the light source in order to give this 3rd dimension more depth.