First I start illustrating on a scratch, to those who are starting, a rough rough sketch will do (yeah a rough rough sketch). I then inserted in in adobe Illustrator CC.

Next, I slowly made traced the outlines (trust me, tracing is fun!!)

You can use shapes in tracing, that gives you more precise shape.

I then start to add hair strands of the sloth, In adding hair strands or fur you can be creative with it, you can use different style with the flow of hairs. (BTW, I've used shape fill, not a stroke, in adding color to my space sloth)

Next, one of my favorite, making the eye, sometimes in illustrating the subjects eye says it all, I really believe that the eye is the window of soul. It tells a thousand words. I just used shapes and gradient with the eye.

Then, working with the space suit, (in illustrating you can create our own style and detail guys! just like my suit and the head gear (I don't know the term, hehe), I just made it based on my imagination, don't be afraid to have your own styles, and you can also have references if you don't now where to start.

then adding shadows, make sure that your shadow is in the shade of your base color. you can just adjust it by lowering the color picker.

Next step, a sloth would not be complete without his horn, for it to be a slothicorn! So I just made a horn with a pastel color of pick, blue, yellow, green, (legendary colors of UNICORN)

Lastly, I add a post processed background done in illustrator, a galaxy, as you can see, I did not made it that realistic so it can blend well with my subject. and then I add a particles to give more feels and dramatic effect.

Then here's the result!
(clear resolution is at the beginning of the post.

My picture anyways

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@stellabelle
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@stellabelle/rules-for-submitting-a-post-to-slothicorn

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