Please find the a short clip of the drawing process of this rough test design right below. This huge small-headed bird character was quasi the preliminary draft to the character at the end of this post. BTW, I had some sort of a bushy Christmas tree in mind (and a wee bit Seinfeld's Newman) in connection with the shape of the characters.
I thought it would be nice to show a work-in-progress piece again. I, for one, am always very interested in others' processes. Well and here is another one of mine:
Nine times of ten, my whole drawing and colouring process has just 5 steps:
I put up a small version of the fat bird's PSD file for download (zipped). So you can check out how I have it structured. Just click on the image below:
Here are some ideas on how to improve visualization in a philosophical and hopefully, practical way. Drawing starts in our minds and it helps to always be in that mind frame even psychologically.