#virus!playmaker

I made my son suffer solely for the sake of making a tutorial

Why, yes, I am still neck deep in virus!AU hell. Thanks for asking.

@pipedreamprayer

An excellent question! I figured I’d take a bit to make a tutorial just in case anyone else wants to join me in virus!Playmaker hell

The long and short of your question is it’s basically just a bunch of black dots connected by thinner lines! I wanted the virus to have a chaotic, almost organic feel to it, so I tried to make the dots as non-uniform as possible.

Here’s a step-by-step from start to finish:

1) Mark out the general shape of the virus in purple. I wanted it to have an insidious feel to it, so I formed it into lines that looked almost like veins or roots spreading through the body. Make sure this layer is above all of the other layers of the drawing so far!

2) In a layer underneath the base shape, use the airbrush tool to make it glow red. This helps it both stand out from the body underneath and gives it a more sinister glow to it.

3) Create a layer above the purple base, and then layer clip it to the purple base. Using the brush tool, make a bunch of dots. The less uniform, the better! Once you’ve made dots to your liking, connect them with some thinner chaotic, scribbly lines.

And that’s basically it! Going back to your original question, yes it can be a pretty time-consuming process. But the results are worth it, in my mind!