Here's a redo experiment of an illustration project I had a few years ago for an article in Helijet Magazine about how "Successful People" manage their thoughts... I've revisited it this time using Affinity Designer and an all painting workflow. I was going for more of a traditional illustration look with a hand painted textural feel.
Here is the image without a background. The beauty of working digitally is I can easily add or remove things like backgrounds and have some fun experimenting with colours and textures...
Here is a closer view of the shirt shading work. Click for a larger view.The threads are simple vector path dashed lines.
Affinity Designer's vector and pixel persona workflow is pure illustration nirvana.
A close up view of the eye area...
And finally a closeup view of the hair and partial background areas showing the textural feeling of the pixel shading.
