For being as cartoony as it is, there is actually a surprising amount of time put into something this simple.
Like anything, it starts with a slap-dash sketch. Just something to establish the gesture and rough layout of the piece.
After that I roughed out few more comps before I came up with a general idea of what I wanted the layout to be.
After working through the comps the line-work fell into place pretty easily.
Next came blocking in colors, which is not my strongest suit. The key was I wanted to establish a "fluorescent" color scheme and make sure that a single color didn't stand out too much from the rest. It was a lot of back-and-forth.
After that, I blocked in a couple of the shadows and highlights to arrive at where I am now.
It's getting close to where I want it, but not done yet. I have yet to play around with the gradient tool to smooth out and homogenize the piece. Until then I can see the piece going in the right directing and I look forward to spending a decent amount of time on the polishing of the final product.
I'll post when it's finished, here's some other work I did in the meantime:
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