Taking a Short Pause

It was a seriously busy weekend and I wasn't able to spend any time on the fantasy portrait. I'm planning to finish the major elements tomorrow and the final details on Wednesday.

Just so you don't think that I'm a complete slacker, I managed to dash off a quick elf doodle to stand-in until I get back to the painting.

It also gave me a chance try a couple of things. First, I sketched the doodle in blue, like the cartoonists do. The I opened a new layer and redrew it in black. That really cut down on the erasing.

Then used a few custom brushes to paint in the color and called it done.