Step 1 - come up with the sketch. here i have two possible choices for her right arm.

Step 2 - I begin inking and decide to go for the raised arm (looks more ballerina like) . FYI - I use a program called SAI.

Step 3 - I add her the cape and the Raven bird. but the raven bird was hogging up all the attention, so i was like "yo bird, you hogging Raven's attention" and he was like "Damn straight im hogging all the attention, I'm awesome" and i was like "nah, i mean the other Raven, foo. i gonna have to CRT+T you ass down!" and he was like "OH SNAP!".

Step 4 - So having resized the bird, color is added, and we live happily ever after. the end.

i wont say how i got to the Background cause i swear i don't even know how i did it.