Hand Painted Pirate Fella

I had the pleasure of attending Weston Reid's CGMA class on Stylized Characters and learned a load. Especially how leveraging HP bakes and Painter passes can get the best start on a greyscale. After that was a color gradient pass in Painter and then a final paint over in 3DCoat.

I think the original concept is by the highly talented 團
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oAvdbO