Day 189: Colouring a Baby

It's been forever since I last posted, and I'm sure a few of you thought I was never going to post again. Even I was wondering if I was going to post again. Though I'm not doing any daily sketches I would still like to share the more detailed drawings I'm working on for my portfolio.

I'm sure many of you remember this one. I did the inks for it already, but I never got around to colouring it. Recently I re-did the inking on this because the resolution was smaller than what I like to use for finished illustrations (I like to keep them at a minimum of 600 dpi for print). This is what the drawing looked like before:

Here it is flat coloured:

Not finished but with more detail:

 I'm still a ways from finishing this as you can see, but I'm hoping to finish it over the next few days. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with the background right now. It's maybe a bit too bright, but more than that it's too flat. The only thing that I can think of right now is clouds, but I don't really like that idea. I'll keep working on it and see what I can come up with. If you come up with any ideas I'd be happy to hear them.