Third commission of my stint at FA:United 2015's Artist Alley comes this piece for  osiristhejackal, one of my economical pencil badges (I seem to be one of the few who offer pencil-only or B/W badges at conventions). He wanted his character done up in the outfit he was wearing as a FAU staffer and judge at the dance competition. I was only happy to oblige--not only was a reference available online, but he was stationed at the dealers room entrance checking badges (artist alley this year was located outside the dealer's room entrance in the hallway), so I had a ready reference for the details of his shirt/vest/jacket combo, not to mention the hat.

Since this was drawn to fit (barely) a standard 4x3 badge holder (no lamination was available at the con) I had to trim it a little too close to the lettering for my liking. In the end I got it in the badge holder, but next time I had to reduce the image size compared to the outline of the badge holder. For display here I cleaned up the backdrop, repositioned the text, fixed minor penciling errors and gaps. For the overall greyscaling I employed a clone brush tool to smooth out the pencil shading and establish definite tones of gray for the various parts of the image.

300dpi scan of pencils on bristol. Reworked with Micrografx Picture Publisher 10. 500k original scan to 0% compression JPG