This wouldn't have been if my brother had not asked me for an art piece for his profile picture, funny how motivating that could be specially when I've not been able to produce a single art piece all week.

Starting with the line art on this one...was going for a somewhat foreshortened action character, felt a fighter would do it justice.

Basically choose cowboyish type colours and tried to give it an African vibe as well.

Went for a comic book style shadow, using the gradient tool and selection tool, nothing too fancy.

Majorly rendered out by adding some rim lighting effect and did some minor retouching here and there, the End. I do like how it turned out...all thanks to my awesome brother.