Let's get out of this country.

Now

I miss summer

Then

Yourself in motion

Figures

I would like to make a crappy "go figure" joke here. But I will refrain.

Keep your figure as a separate thing.
Keep comprehensive files of your heads, bodies etc - will be super useful in years to come.

Flat colour on girl - think about where shadow is - use burn. Render bodies.
Need to give girl a skin colour - test various colours, do test prints.
Flat colour, shading over the top.

Plan where your shadow is, where is the light hitting the person?
Using dodge tool, put exposure down. Subtly mark in shadows.

Rendering

With business shirt - have a copy left as a working copy.
Then, merge all the stripe layers to one - delete fabric layer.

To make your shirt look more 3D - add in shading shadows etc.
Use black lollipop - eg dodge tool.
don't make it too airbrushy - maybe 58 for hardness. This will gradually make it lighter. On dodge there is also sponge tool - sucks up colour. Burn tool does the opposite of the dodge tool - makes things appear darker - adds shadow. This is good.

Can use draw on colour, with paintbrush - but first take off original - use magic wand to select area you want to paint in, otherwise the paint will go anywhere outside the line.

To make your shirt a block colour - turn off fabric layer, got to outline, magic wand, inverse, create new layer (block colour) - put this underneath - edit -->fill - block colour underneath outline. Then burn away. This is a good way to add shadow for a pattern.

Also bear in mind - blur and smudge tool - the drop. Takes up lots of memory and speed on your computer, try to do it little by little. Sharpen makes it more pixellated. Smudge is awesome - makes it more mottled.

Flatten outline and coloured image together - this is so you can move this around, put it wherever you need. Flattens outline and rendering together. But - if you need them separate - just cut and paste front out - creates a new layer and they are all separate and lovely.

To duplicate into another file - if you click duplicate layer you have the option to duplicate it into another document. Or just cut and paste.

Use black arrow, press control - you have a menu icon - keep pressing control and press once - it tells you which layer you are on and then you can switch to that layer.

Drop shadow - important!!!!!!
Layer --> layer style --> drop shadow.
Look through these, experiment with layer styles. Multiply makes the shadow transparent.