The Hired Hand process

Here's a post about the making of the illustration I did for Arrow Films blu-ray release of The Hired Hand.

My first sketch was drawn in Procreate on the iPad, and was approved straight away.

I then imported that into Manga Studio and started adding layers of photo ref, screen-grabbed from a dvd of the movie along with a photo of my legs to add to the main figure...

A tight pencil drawing was then done over that on a new layer...

Then I added a layer of rough airbrush colours, along with a scan of some real paper textures...

Then I started drawing into that with coloured pencils. I did the big head first...

And then the rest...