1. Doodled by hand until he reached a point of feeling finished (See the Structured Doodling 1 post)
2. Scanned in the artwork and opened it in Photoshop.
3. Levels adjusted to make the blacks black and the extra background lines painted out.
4. Copied into Illustrator.
5. Live traced, expanded and then copied so that there are 2 versions.
6. The 1st copy was simplified a lot (Object – Path – Simplify)
7. It was then then ungrouped and the yellow/red/purple shapes coloured and the rest discarded.
8. The 2nd shape was simplified less than the 1st one (this creates the slight miss-match of the coloured parts to the main black parts).
9. It was then ungrouped and the unwanted parts discarded.
10. The 2 versions were then overlaid with eachother to create the finished illustration
11. A few final touches involving moving a few points to tidy it up and there we go: Crazios!

He was so cute I’ve put him on a t-shirt…