Last summer I had an order to draw some characters for an iOS game. Thought it was a big London studio but nobody knew how that characters should look like. The only thing was it has to be celebrities in future with some portrait similarities. For the beginning I had to search and create a sample for future contracts with that famous people.
Done some sketch work with different variants. Wanted to do them all closer to my style so I can easily make a series of them in short amount of time if needed.
Client had chosen something and I drew some celebrities but this is a different story. One sketch I loved a lot because it was looking little bit like my wife. It's number ten in the sketch lineup. I had this photo of her and wanted to use it as a reference for the lights and colors.
Worked on Microsoft Surface Pro 4 that time in Adobe Photoshop. You can draw right on the screen there. It's very handy.
Some variations:
Here is the final. What do you think about it?