I'm trying a different approach with this one. I'm starting in black and white so I don't become too distracted by vibrant or badly placed colors. Now that I'm about half way there, I'm going to switch to colors. This way the painting won't have that metallic shine that a lot of black and white paintings do that are colored at a late stage.
Special thanks to PIXELovely for the gesture drawing tool (http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/) which was used for the last illustration as well as this one... and probably many more to come :)
Having started at my new job, I've been off the cintiq for a while now... but here is a set of poses for the girl character I've been working with lately.