The idea for this piece came to me when I was talking to a friend in a Skype call and we were sharing songs with each other. I suddenly felt the need to draw him and the expression he showed while listening to his favorite music. So the first thing I did as take a snapshot of the screen and crop it until I was happy then I drew the outline of everything and decided which features in his face needed to be emphasized with lines. I kept those features lined and used those lines as a reference for color.
I used my favorite tools like the ink pen to get the small details and then marker and water to blend in the colors on his face. I didn't want to to make the hair so realistic that it took away the simplicity of the drawing, but I wanted to give it enough depth that the depth the face has wan't wasted and made the face the main focus.
My biggest problem for this was deciding on a color for the clothes, and trying to determine the opacity for the drawing because if the dark shirt was pure black it would throw off the smooth colors of the face. so I played with that for a while making sure to add sketchy lines of light to emphasize the places where light was hitting him. I'm overall happy with the way this turned out, I can see my lines are sketchy and seem somewhat incomplete, but I think that's what gives this drawing such a homey feeling. The colors and expression are soft as well as the lines used to draw them, and I'm happy I was able to break out my tablet again for some art.