I use a brush in Photoshop that looks like a bristle paintbrush and about five more of various sizes and intensities, but mostly, it's just painting on layers for about 1-2 hours or so and hard work.
There's no shortcut in digital illustration ... well, there are, but I was following a tutorial for practice so I started from nothing but a reference for Zeriara's character.
Kind of. I use a brush in Photoshop that looks like a bristle paintbrush and about five more of var
