Ivan

Here is the start of my take on Ivan. This is just a quick pass to get the character on paper. I'd like to go back and play more with body type and fine tune all the details.
As for the coloring, it's just light and dark for each surface, all done on one layer. ...and yeah, that's my color pallet to the right.
Thought it was cool to see Jay's working environment. So I've also taken a screen grab of mine. Nothing crazy here... just painting on a single layer set to multiply with a round brush. I set the brush "flow" to around 40%, 100% opacity, 75% "hardness".