How to draw Dark Phoenix

How to draw Dark Phoenix, Jean Grey from X-men. Painting Marvel character Dark Phoenix rising work in progress. This tutorial is step by step work in process. As viewers requested and voted on idrawgirls Facebook page, I was going to make a video tutorial on this one but it did not turn out the way I want it to be. So I scraped the video and paint over the failed attempt of drawing and paint Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix rising. It took me a couple hours to paint the first attempt.

Anyway, I was not going to give up easily with this painting so I rethink and repaint. It takes a lot longer than I thought with fixing up and repaint Jean Grey. But I think it turns out well on the second attempt. It is very difficult to design and paint a character in a horizontal format so I decided to give the second attempt on a vertical format. And here she is.

Jean Grey Dark Phoenix rising version (Work in progress)

But here is a previous failed speedpainting of the character.
failed painting

I had the whole recording of the process, but it is bad so I am not going to upload it. I failed too once in a while.

I am not done with the painting yet, it took me about four hours of thinking, fixing and painting all together.
I got carry away so I guess I will have to finish her as a final character concept painting rather than speedpaint.
Below are step by step process digital painting Jean Grey Dark Phoenix rising.

how to draw marvel dark phoenix step 01