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This is probably going to be my second-to-last image of my progress series. For those that have followed all the way up to this point and are especially observant, you can see that the wallpaper stripes are far more distinct; this is because shortly before I used the fixative on it I went over some areas with the eraser to make certain areas lighter. In this case I lighted the stripes that will be a sort of gold color. I also tried to lift as much of the graphite lines around Foley as possible because since he's pretty much all white I want to make doubly sure there are no dark lines showing. Some were stubborn and refused to erase as much as I wanted, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Being right handed, I always work left to right, top to bottom. Colored pencils are used to best effect by layering. It can take many layers of many colors before you get the desired hue; it is a time-consuming medium more often than not, but in my opinion always worth it for the patient. I'm a little unsure of some of my gradients on the wall there, but I go back and tweak here and there the more the colors of the rest of the image become apparent and you can start putting it all together. All told, the work with the pencils you see here took me approximately 3 hours or so, give or take.

PS: for those that have been following from the very starting sketch, notice how infinitely more....devious Foley's eyebrows have gotten? The fuck's that about. You can't prove I didn't do that on purpose.

Next step: Continue coloring, occasionally going back, nitpicking, correcting, fiddling, fine-tuning.