Pinwheel Charlie Finished

Detail of Charlie. All of the line work and shading was done with a mechanical pencil and a lot of patience.
I used a piece of scanned sketch book paper as a texture, muted high value colors, and the multiply layer option to give the illusion of watercolor. I also chose to repeat Charlie in a pinwheel fashion to emphasize the subject and create a strong color pattern. This is going to be printed larger than the original sketch to show off the quality of the line.
Photoshop.
24 x 24 gloss paper.

Maternal Alpha Update

Detail of the offspring.
More layers of paint.

Piggyback Bravo Update

Detail of the piggybacker.
Warm acrylic washes that will be muted quite a bit before the end product.
Acrylic wash and graphite on 24x30 Masonite.

Pinwheel Charlie

Possible concept for the third Illustration project.
Photoshop sketch.