Full progress from start to finnish of an illustration; hope this'll interest someone out there :)
5- Final fixes. Ambient Occlusion, small highlights and details, background added.
4- colors edited and a few correctional layers, blending a shadow pass and light pass from the greyscale illustration. Background removed.
3- A few more anatomical fixes and colors blocked in.
2- fixer ups and values.
In photoshop I fix any anatomical errors (Like feet of different sizes, eyes, neck length etc.).
I darken the image quite a lot, adding a high contrast to the image and then paint in the initial lights and highlights.
1- the pencil drawing.
I just draw the entire thing on cheap paper with an hb pencil ^^'