gift sketch stage 2

This picture of 'Ichigo Kurosaki' from Bleach by Tite Kubo was created as a farewell gift for my friend Chris who was moving to Australia

This is stage 2 of the development (Unsure what happened to stage 1 - Think I may have deleted it from my hard drive... Oops!)

The rough drawing (pencil outline) was actually traced from a painting I had already done previously in the year so that I could get the outline properly without too much hassle of drawing it freehand (cheating I guess, but I only had two days to complete it... ha ha)