DESIGN A CHARACTER CONTEST ENTRY - Week #3 -Punk Hades

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Welcome one and all, to the underworld! The home of Hades, Punk Rock and perhaps kittens!

Hello fellow Steemians. I present to you my entry for Design A Character Contest - Week 3 hosted by the awesome @w0olf. Thank you as always for hosting this wonderful contest, I urge anyone who hasn't joined yet, to give it a go!

Punk Hades - My Entry:

For my entry I tried to imagine what Hades would look like if he was an old-timey punk rocker, back in the Greek times. Classic Punk Rock Lord of the Underworld!

The (very long) Process:

So this image took me way longer than it should have, but I learnt a lot through doing this. I am still working on digital drawing skill, and I suspect that I have only stared to breach the very very very outer layer of what is possible.

Oh the shame...

This is where I started in this project, it look me hours and the results were more than horrifying (look at big chin and skyrim elf over here), although I did learn quite a bit from doing these:

The Actual Process:

I started out using my references (Random google images, all rights reserved to their rightful owners) to draw a basic shape, I then traced it with a nice black line, and added some basic background colour for the skin.

For the next part I started adding my dark layer, then light layer, and of course we needed some hair.
Disclaimer: I didn't do all of these perfectly in order, and I jumped between my layers fixing things a... loooot....

Next I added the blend (that became more than one) layer, so smooth out all the dark and light bits, and fix some shadows:

For my final trick I added some colour and details on the eyes, along with an overlay layer, containing some other colours, bringing out a little bit more skin tone, leaving me with the final image: