At first, I began with an initial sketch as a base to

determine where my precise lines would be.

After sketching, I used the pen tool to mark out each point on lines and curved
them manually. I used the pen tool as it can give very smooth, precise lines,
which is essential for them comic like style.
To create a stroke path I right clicked the path that I created with the pen tool and
click on, brush to fill the stroke with the brush tool.
I carried on this process throughout the entire piece
At this point, I roughly plotted where the shadows and highlights would fall and how
the lighting of the picture was.
Here, I laid down the base colours. To do this I had to colour around the perimeter of
the subject, and fill in the subject the desired colour, reffering to my character design
from earlier.
Next, was the stage of laying down the shadows. First I filled the shadows in ,
according to the light source (fist) then within those shadows I added some varying
lighter tones to give a range of shades and tones.
Next, I added the highlights according to the light source. This helped create the
illusion of light.
I wanted to give the effect of fire on the fist. To do this I used a deep orange on a
different brush preset with lighter orange toneson top of it.
I continued experimenting with different shades of yellow and orange, with different
layer styles such as overlay and lighter colour. I adjusted opacity on some layers to
make the fist just about visible.
In order to make this piece look more like a poster, I added some character designs
that I have previously drawn for this comic book in the background. I coloured over
the top of them in black to give the illusion of shadows on their faces. This aided
towards the effect of lighting from the fist.
After adjusting hues and brightness, I had finished the final poster image.