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My rendering process is nothing special really. It begins with a rough sketch with colors and/or values. I highly recommend spending your time making it since it helps to avoid some mistakes in future and see if your idea is even working. That also would save you from suffering fixing something big further on in the process. After that there's two ways of work for me - another more detailed sketch or jumping right into "painting like a sculptor", aka building everything with shapes and in the process.

And then details! Here I have something to say: ZOOM OUT. It's important that you don't lose the focal point of your work! You don't need something unimportant to be overrendered and stealing all attention

Speaking of colors... Honestly I'm not that good at it?? I'm using some basic color theory knowledge or gradient maps. But this year I'm actually trying to learn more! I advise going through what you like or what caught your eye and make tiny studies of it.

I may recommend checking Marco Bucci and Sinix Design for some good painting lessons! They'll be more helpful than me really, ahah.

So uuhh general advices: use references, MIX references, play around, try different things because who knows what's actually comfortable or fun to do for you. I've spent years figuring out drawing with line art and all these separate layers for everything... just to realize it's not really my thing. Aaand what I thought was scary and not for me (painting) ended up being something I understand and like doing much more!