[Reward | WIP] Cosplay Party

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April's Reward for patreon Teejster1!

Feat. their 3 Pokemon OCs cosplaying as Aerith, Cloud, and Tifa from Final Fantasy 7!
In this occation we decided to go full Anthro with these designs.

From left to right:

• Crystal as Aerith
• Storm as Cloud (heh, get it? clouds and storms? eh? eh?... aight
• Aria as Tifa

These are the steps followed so far:

• 1- Base sketch: The sketch phase took a llittle more time than usual since I was working with 3 characters and I wanted to come up with a different pose for each of them, but surprisingly I managed to draw everything within a relatively short amount of time!
• 2- Clothe sketch: Now onto the costumes, I looked up pictures of each of the characters I needed and started sketching the clothes on top of the earlier sketch to get everything to fit where it's supposed to.
• 3- Lineart: Now with the sketch done for all 3 characters I move on to the clean lineart, in this stage I take the time to fix a couple inconsistencies found on the sketches along with some proportion issues.
• 4- Flat colors: Then I fill all the lines with the proper colors by looking up references for the final fantasy characters and the OCs.
• 5- Color correction: On second thought, I decided to keep the original "hair" colors mean for the characters instead of going with the hair colors of the FF characters.
• 6- Gradients: With the basic colors in, I move on to some simple dark and light gradients to make them pop out a little more.
• 7- Shading: Now I add the shadows and highlights in different layers to accentuate the surfaces, this time I make them a little deeper than usual to get that sharp effect going.
• 8- Visual Effects: And finally I add some glow effects on the illuminated areas along with some line color corrections and environmental shadows!