How I Speed Paint

 Step 1: Choose the most amazing, most beautiful, most breath-taking photo you can find. The lovely lady would be me.

 Block in the big shapes.

 Start blocking in the slightly smaller shapes.

 When I say "shapes" I mean the different colors. Think of the painting as a map, and the borders are between the areas of color.

 Let's focus on this area for a moment.

 I have blocked in the relatively larger areas of color.

 I'm sure it looks like I'm blending, but what I'm really doing is lightly blocking in smaller and smaller areas of detail until they all kinda mesh together on their own.

 Let's try it again here.

 Big shapes.

 Smaller shapes.

 Move along.

 Aaaaand keep going.

 If I ever turn into a zombie, I hope to be this pretty.

 So let's see what we can do for that eye.

 Block in the big shapes first.

 Then add in all the little shapes until everything blends on its own.

 Moving on to the hair and background.

 Big shapes, then little shapes. Same concept.

 Added a quick background and did a bit of work on the hoodie.

 Sign it.

 Play with it.

Hope you learned something.

If nothing else, learn not to take life too seriously. <3

Made in Paint Tool Sai with a Wacom tablet.