Painting Practice

Trying new techniques here.  Did this because said that I need more confidence with my lines.  So I figured, maybe I could fare better without evil lines?

Unlike usual, I didn't even sketch or draft this in anyway.  I just had the picture in my head and started painting, skin first.  This immediately broke the construction of the figure but I think I did pretty well fixing it in the end.  Also, the lack of sketching immediately cut down my PSD file size from 500MB+ to just 100MB now, which is great!  Although I'm still a n00b and find it hard to draw by painting first, I feel that it's way less painful than drafting and linearting.

Who knows, I might just do this from now on ^_^

Stats: character is Rollo in his very first appearance in my stories.  This is before he becomes Rune as well before the other picture of him wearing the white t-shirt.  Of course, it's also in this first novel that sweet flannel jacket got pretty beat up and that's why he'd get the other shirt with hoodie thing later lol.

PS: Btw, the flannel hoodie is inspired by Antoine Doinel's Flannel Jacket in 400 blows.  I always see it as blue though other people say (and maybe in reality as well) it's actually a red flannel.  I don't know, the movie is in black and white.  What do you think?  Am I the only one seeing it as blue?!