This painting is a testament of how hard I find to paint something digitally and avoid the clean digital look. Its very hard not to overdo things. And it probably needs more work simplifying things and adding better colors. I started this on my ipad on a coffee shop.We just woke up and I thought I wanted to do a pastel-y type of sketch of my girlfriend while she read her book.
It started being fun and all, but soon I started to struggle , finding the right shadows and colors and most importantly , not having a good solid pencil sketch to start with really made it more difficult. I used the smudge tool a lot to avoid that clean smooth look that you normally get in digital painting.
Here's a process video, where you can see how much struggle I went through!
Character Animator and Illustrator. 
Thanks for posting the video. I’ve never watched the process unfold. quite interesting. 🙂 Much love in the new year!
Good work!,love watch the process. How did you do? What program to capture the process?
Thanks!
This painting effect looks gorgeous and It also projects a warm feeling. On the other hand I find the process very interesting. Thank you Daniel for the video and I hope that you have had a good start to the new year.
Hi Fer! I used the ipad app “procreate”. The app saves all your process automatically. When you are done with the painting it allows you to export a movie file with the process.
Thanks for your comment!!