Here is one of my recent illustration character designs initially made as a default avatar for a social network but later reworked for my portfolio.
Sketches
Few pencil sketches to begin with. I know, you need some text explanation if you are not a bot so here you are (I bet nobody actually reads this here).
Coloring process
And here is the colored versions done in Adobe Photoshop as usual.
After some time I've desided to improve this character adding more fire to his hairstyle and some other details.