gender- male
description- bubbly, kind and annoying
features- tail is water-y like,

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I started with the sketch, I always try to mark the fur, it can always be useful later


On a layer under the sketch I put my colors. Usually i just color pick them from the reference


I put a new layer above the one with the flat colors and I check the clipping group thing. I also set it on multiply mode. Then I used the water brush showed on that screenshot to put some shadings with a desaturated green. I chose it since I decided to make green eyes


I decided my light source and started to shade. It's important to keep your light source in mind while painting. Using my pen's pressure I was able to make my shading more or less dark


I merged down the shading layer with the flat colors one. Now I only had a painting layer, my two sketch layers and the background color


I hid my lines. Kinda ugly uh XD In the next step I tried to make it look better


Using the color picker tool, I tried to get colors better, have better shapes, aaand idk, just looking more like a mouse


Now I can start the fur! Still using my color picker tool, better keep it in a shortcut (on my Sai it's the right click) because I use it all the time. I took the brush and settings shown on the screen shot. At this step I picked the shading colors and made quick strokes in the fur directions. I used the color picker at almost every stroke so my fur doesn't look plain, and we can see many shade of greenish grey in it. Having less pressure on my pen allowed me to kinda blend colors, while more pressure made my strokes darker, wich was useful in the shading places. Don't worry even if it's not very precise, you can just see this step as guidelines for the fur


I used the same technique with color picker, the same brush and quick strokes to make the ears, letter and reindeer things details and textures


Back to the fur! I'm still using the same brush here, but I put the Min size at about 22-25% and a slightly smaller size than the other step. I made quick strokes again in my shading areas, still keeping my fur direction in mind. I only detailed the shading parts here. As always, I used the color picker tool according to the places I was painting


Here I put the min size a bit higher, about 30-35% and i made the brush slightly bbigger. This time I color picked on the lighest aeras. Still using the color picker tool and keeping my fur directions in mind, I made all my strokes softer. I was putting very few pressure on my pen to achieve that


Here I put my brush at a lower min size, about 15-17%, and I also made it smaller than the last steps. I took a lighter color than the ones already on the painting, and I made strokes in the lightest areas, and also on the sides of the head. The color picker tool can still be useful here since at this step I usually finish the fur part. The key here is a lot of patience, and paying a lot of attention in details, but I can't really explain. It's really about looking closely at your drawing and getting mad at it and keep detailing it until you feel satisfied with how it looks


Finally done with the fur!! Here I finished the details on the flower, the mouth, the nouse, the eyes and the letter


This is my final step. Here I make a new layer above my mouse, on clipping groupe and multiply mode. I made the shadows and the eyes darker. I made another layer, still in clipping group but this time I set it on overlay mode. ith a light desaturated yellow I highlighted the light areas of the mouse.

Then I made a third new layer, no clipping group nor mode this time. I took my brush in a very small size and 0% min size and I made small strokes for the whiskers. I also added some hair on the head's size, as I hink it looks better that way.
Aaaand we're done! Hope that was helpful

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