Greetings @sketchbook community, since July 28, in my country we have lived days of uncertainties, hopes and well many other things, but, not to go into depth, there was a series of photos that roamed a lot through social networks and where people began to feel identified, including me, wanting to capture some of them in an illustration, I hope you like the result.

The first thing I did was to make the sketch, organizing the figures and everything else.....

Already with this step ready, I proceeded to make the lineart, here I had clear that the final drawing had no lines, that is to say, that the contours were not demarcated in a dark way. I also changed the shape of the flag, because I didn't like the one I had made at the beginning.

After that, I proceeded to color all of the figures in the

To continue, I made the respective shading, here I took as a tip, an illustrator from Instagram, which is to give the shading color with a light tone, then give that layer to the blend mode multiply and with the adjustment tool I can change the color, if the one you used at the beginning does not fit the base tone, I play with the saturation and brightness to give the right shadows to it.

With the sculpture (the figure in green), I used a krita brush to give that fading effect.

I gave the corresponding details to the figures, while doing the shading, such as the part of the horse's face, the corresponding colors of the macaw and the stars of the flag.

With the shaded figures (I haven't added lighting yet), I went to the background, I wanted it to allude to my city's sky, especially those days when it was painted in the colors of the flag, so I looked for many references on the internet, to guide me, since I'm very bad with clouds, with the sky in general.

I used the gradient tool, which was from sky blue to a light orange, I hid the figures, to better draw and paint the clouds; here I took some tutorials that are displayed on Pinterest, which is to make several circles, of different sizes, then fill them, with a medium gray tone, then with clipping mask, I was adding the corresponding light and dark tones.

In this part, to give the shape to the clouds and their tones, if it was complicated, I did not know how to do it, in the end, after applying and visualizing certain brushes that worked for me and playing with the blending modes, I managed to give the shape. Already with the base tones of the clouds, I applied the yellow, blue and red colors in these and on top of that layer of colors, I added again lights and shadows with the black and white, but, this layer would be superimposed.

With the background ready, I gave the lights to the figures, in the part of the hammer, I added a more intense light. After that, I added a brown layer, but only covering the horse, the rider, the sculpture and the flag, overlapping it and playing with the tool settings.

Then, another layer with texture, but this time covering the whole composition, giving it overlapping. Now, to finish, I added some lights that will surround the hammer part and ready, this is the result.