Wolverine paint

Whilst my BA5 project was ongoing I decided to dedicate a little bit of time to something unrelated, I find that it helps to work on something different every now and then to prevent me getting bored or frustrated on time consuming tasks. I decided to do a digital paint as this is all still good practice and will help later in my project. I found a picture of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine to paint, this is a character who has been one of my favourites from a young age, particularly in the film versions. Another reason for picking this is because I am aware there is a detailed digital painting tutorial on youtube which I intended to use, I am aware that my methods are not the only way, or indeed quite often not the best way to achieve a result. However I find working through different tutorials I pick up many different methods and from these I can pick the ones that suit me best.

The tutorial I used can be located here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5DbDecn16o

Although I wanted to replicate the methods used in this tutorial I did not want to produce the same result therefore I based my drawing round an alternate image 

My work is not yet completely finished but I have a work in progress image to display what I have done so far. There are some areas I am really pleased with, Particularly the likeness in the face, the texture of his vest in the lower half of the image, and the definition in the arms. Some areas I can see that need improvement already are the left side of the neck, some of the shadows and making the material on the upper half of the body look less rigid and more natural.

     I am also finding the claws difficult to get right, hence they are not yet include however I intenfd to finish this piece of before to long and will update my progress then.