Crimson Characters #1 - Traveling Merchant

[Mr. Toodles]

here's a little Sketch of my basic idea, according to the guidelines I am now going to study fantasy world merchants to create a more convincing character





Edit: ok i found a cool ref of this dude with some camels and I wanted to capture his likeness in a sketch. What i want to get out of this study is a grasp of painting in large shapes because i don't do it very well







second edit: here's my work on the shapes tonight I spent a lot of time fiddling with the light source and was a bit disappointed about doing so