Creating a Character from a Scribble

To start this page in my sketchbook I used a light gray Tombow brush pen and just scribbled a bunch of lines in a random pattern. From there I started to imagine shapes in the pattern with no real plan for what my finished piece was going to be. I saw a few ways to do some crazy faces and began drawing over the gray lines with a pencil. When I had a drawing I liked I darkened in the lines with a darker brush pen.

I used a brown acrylic wash to go over the drawing. Since this was the first time I had used this combination of mediums I was quite surprised that the wash pretty much erased the lines I had put down with the Tombow pens. Fortunately my pencil lines remained and I layered Formula P3 acrylic paint on top of them.

Most of the work was done in warm tones and for the final touch I added some complimentary blue into the eyes and background to make the character pop a bit more.

This was a good exercise. I'm quite happy with the results despite the fact that I had no real inspiration when I started the sketch. Truthfully I'm already working on another one.