I’m doing something a little different today, that is revisiting an older daily image. I always liked the look and feel of this character, even in its rough sketch state. I wanted to do another lighting/paint exercise today, but didn’t want to spend the time designing a new character. I figured I’d re-work the original sketch and then paint it up!

Here’s the updated drawing where I tried to get more specific with both his anatomy and clothing/outfit.

And the painted version. I learned a lot here, but there are definitely some elements that need work. One area is that of the clothing, I don’t quite like how the light falls on it. It doesn’t feel enough like cloth, and instead I think had a bit too much shine to it. I should do some cloth/clothing studies to tackle that.