Finished up. Meet Donald. This smooth character is so very hipster although he wouldn't admit it if you asked him. He's stylin with his courier bag and soft velvety plaid scarf and don't forget the classic vintage Ray Ban sunglasses.
If you want it, I have a layer for the full face glasses. They are Ray Ban tiger style... the ones that have orange, yellow, black and brown all kind of mingled together. The courier bag is of course a Frietag and I thought the plaid scarf worked nicely with the bag.
EDIT: OMG, HOW COULD I FORGET THE HIPSTER HAIR. I fixed it, 2 little dreadlock type braids and the rest is an unruly mess with orange frost.
On the color dot refs... left to right the 1st 3 are body colors. The second 3, 4 if you include the white are the bag and scarf and the third set of dots is the markings. The lower 2 dots (white only used to pop out the dark color) are the paw pads which are the only bright, not washed out (sepia) part on the whole work.
The work looks complicated but it was easy to do the base. The only tools I used were pencil (in various sizes), dodge (Only on the glasses to get the yellow and orange shades of the tiger) and smudge. I changed the opacity on the shading to I think 42? and added a shadow layer for more depth. To get the cat stripe affect I took the darkest color and put it down in size 2 line wherever I wanted a stripe or spot, and then ran a size 2 smudge back and forth over it in the lay of the hair. After it looked "furry" I ran a size 1 smudge through it until I liked it and then a final run over with the blur very quickly.
I am very open to allowing edits of this, if you have anything at all you would like edited, let me know.
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I'm wondering how you made the bag, it's really cool! 