SKI MASK - Process and Final (Patreon)

It is done! I frankly felt motivated by you all to finish this feller. I was in a short and temporary rut about my art and I felt like I just kept drawing the same thing over and over. In the second stage of this drawing (2nd slide under final) I was ready to give up. It was a very lineart-based sketch and I could not bring myself to color behind a lineart layer and have it look flat and boring (in my opinion).

Also wow it was gonna be very different in the beginning.  A man about to eat a guy that he covered in food. :0 (and then it was very...strange. A man about to eat a very very cat man....)

I imagine if I finished this drawing in that (previously mentioned) style it would turn out a lot like my Aurora redraw (which I love - but still). I wanted to do something soft and clean and deeper (colors) with less of a focus on lineart and I messed around and got to a stage with a smooth skin stone with soft values and I was like heyyy (3rd)... and then I kept rendering. I think my more rendered portraits like Duckwrth or Hayley Williams really helped me be more confident with colors without having to really blend them at all. I didn't even know how to approach blending. Although this is quite a different approach than what is "normal" for me, at least it felt more familiar. I rendered the face and wasn't unhappy with it (4th) but I felt like it was boring.

So I saw a post by @tamimakesart on Instagram of a drawing with a guy in a ski mask and this guy was done! Can't believe I was gonna leave it there at the end with no ski mask... boring. I am kinda sad you cant see his cheekbones and forehead I rendered those pretty good....