First Drawing of the 2016!

And as the tradition has been going for the past many years, my first drawing of the year is of something from Cipo's story!

Here's the first illustration of the year!
And here's the process:

First a basic sketch to figure out poses and composition.

Then some tied-down roughs.

Then the lineart.

And the coloring.

And then the shading (before the effects).