I finished my drawing today which I roughly sketched on my free time days ago. I was considering the suggestion on the comments and went fot it to turn it from a funny comics scene to a warm holiday greetings and this is the time and my creativity resulted to. Still lacking refinements and needs more definitions to make it a holiday greeting card.maybe next time.
The initial sketch above didn't change much except for the hairstyle. I love the mid life man aesthetic but the full hair sticking out supported the movement I want this character to show.
These are the colors I chose it was never easy for me to decide which shade are the right tones to give it that vintage vibe. It is looking dull at this stage so today I made the colors more warm . The skin became more peach , the coat more camel and the pants forest green. I am glad I had the energy to do that little tweak in colors as I am happy with the vibe it now gives
This is the background it may not amount to what the main subject is but it took more time to conceptualize and execute. At first I could not handle the warm colors they clash with the warm colors of the main subject. To resolve that I simply adjusted the opacity of the whole background so it doesn't compete for attention. It's done and good for me but like I said there's more that I can improve on .
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