Work In Progress...

The first set of sketches for the drawing redo added more detail to the face and hair with 4 option that I could do as well as two medium options I tried for the final. Explained more below:

My PrePro sketches show four options for the final face and hair as well as two option for the medium (Colored pencil and oil pastels).

The top left (first one) is smoother in line work and has an overall rounder shape to it and light colored pencil is used to color it. The top right (Second one) is closer to the abstract part of the original painting with a more detail put into the hair. The bottom left (Third one) is closer to the original’s hair just smoothed out some but has a more detailed face design and this one is colored in oil pastels. The bottom right (Forth one) is drawn for look more realistic in the hair with a sharp styled face design.

However, looking at the colored concept there wasn’t much interest added to the design along the lines of the use of the color. Because I believe that the blue on half the characters face was meant to be shading I used it as such but with more realistic shading over the full face.  Below is a work in progress of the final with this idea:

General shading and highlighting still needs to be added as well as the final black outline.