Setting up a 1024x768 drawing area and drawing the first figure. As the lines of those figures will remain in the final image, they have to be drawn carefully with some jitter ...
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Adding the hand holding mate.
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Sketching the final scene. Those lines will get deleted later, but for now it helps to get an idea where to put what color.
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Painting the objects on different layers.
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Some more painting ...
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And some more painting. Note that in the final picture the lines are gone and some texturing has been done using a "dry brush" and "sun-yellow" from PS' tooltips.