Arbo was the randomly-selected winner for the June 2017 Patreon sketch draw and he requested the child character from depression comix #200. This was a bit of a challenge for me because the way I had been drawing the sketches up until this point wasn’t going to work for this character, who I drew in a kind of Peanuts/Calvin kind of way. So instead of a portrait, I went for illustration instead.
This I inked entirely by paintbush to give it a newspaper comic feel, and added greytones with Copic markers. So in the end this was a fun and challenging sketch to do, something a little different, and I put it in the mail yesterday so Arbo should receive it within 2 weeks. Thanks for your support everyone!
Just wanted to say that I think this illustration is great. From the concept to the artwork it perfectly captures the experience of living with mental illness as a child.