Continuing with my character design Syriff's Face

I have used Jason Momoa as reference for this character mainly his hair and face but Syriff is pretty built too, so here are my sketches and paintings of his face leading to the finished piece.

 I first started with my scanned sketch, it was a4 so not overly big and detailed. After that I practiced painting Jason Momoa's face from reference and for the final one I used some skin and hair brushes in photoshop to apply the features over my original sketch.

In the final version of Syriff I have given him a bit more of a tan and darkened around his eyes to give him a more intense look, which you can see in my next post.