Portrait of my badass U.S. congressional representative, Pramila Jayapal (D WA-7).

I separated a color reference photo out into CMYK channels, drew each color channel separately in black & white in my sketchbook, then colorized and layered the drawings together in the computer. Since I’m using my phone’s camera as a “scanner,” I decided to incorporate some cast shadows for added color. Here are the separate layers:

I still don’t have this technique perfected, and the tools I’m using are relatively primitive, but the lo-fi quality pleases me.