Avatar Christmas

Ok so it's been a little while since Christmas but i thought i'd share the process steps of my Avatar Christmas picture.

The steps are as follows:
1. sketched out a rough idea of the composition of the piece. (as you can see very very rough XD)
2. re-sketched the design with correct proportions etc.
3. lineart.
4. added a simple gradient for background and then blocking in background colours/northern lights.
5. basically filled in all the base colours on a seperate layers.
6. determined where the lightsource is coming from and added basic shading.
7. added words and an overlay layer to brighten the picture up.