Experimenting

This is an example of how much harder I need to work. The goofy face was unfortunately not by me, but I have been trying to learn some of the digital techniques. I was playing with a much softer background than I usually do (obviously picked some of his color palette), and I am trying to figure out how to have the charcoal/pencil sketchiness in my paintings. I OCD when it comes to controlling my paintings and I tend to lose a lot of the drawing. So here is my attempt at a basset hound and trying to replicate this guys very cool technique in 30 minutes. :-)