Sixth of the finished character artwork promos done from a set of saved sketches I had for the "Artist Army Competition" for the Draw with Jazza youtube channel.

I initially came up with the idea of doing a bunch of OC's for friends along with several well known internet personalities in the more "Adult" areas of the community. Everything was going along fine

Until Illustrator - yes I use Illustrator to draw - decided when I had all the sketches just about done, to up and poop the bed.

I literally had no sketching to do and was beginning on the line art for the whole piece - again in Illustrator - and it decided to just up and say "nope" and the file is irretrievable

As you'll be able to see here through some of the sketches that I'd saved to my business facebook page, that I'd begun working on the line art as my character - the skull guy - was done. Spent nearly an entire night trying to recover the file using all sorts up to and including text editors to find the problem, didn't work in the end and I had to restart this whole thing, with less than 2 weeks left to get it done.

I have to admit there were times when I felt like minecrafting myself for the amount of work I planned

but

I got it done - just in time too.

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Again, I have friends who have a difficult time conveying their ideas, and this one was no different. I had been told that he wanted "a buddhist looking monk with a helmet and shield, holding a mystic spear and wearing rainbow coloured robes.

That was a hard one to work out at first, I tried several variants with rainbow coloured coats and it just came off looking ugly. then I hit upon the design of the clothing, to have the rainbow colouring there and it mostly worked. I will likely redo this again in a completely different pose and highlight the rainbow colours more in a completely different way next time