A character sketch clean up

I’ve been sketching ideas of late. Mostly to learn how to get the best out of my new brush-tip pens but also to shake off the rust from my (limited) art skills.

This is a before and after of the digital clean-up of a mobile snap I took of one such sketch.

Before

A photo of a an ink sketch of a one-eyed robed figure

After

the same one-eyed robed figure but cleaned up for screen.

I tweaked colour temperature, contrast, and brightness and then did a little digital clean-up of the unwanted white specks. As you can see, the pencil marks are gone, with only the slightest bit of airbrushing needed.

This is less about skill and more about how good the tool I used is. (GIMP).

If I use this in a game, I’ll probably do a contact scan and clean up again so that the end result more closely resembles the drawing.

What should we call this little fellow?

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