LoMein The Lucky Lunch Cat

So this is the start of my lunch (half) hour drawings. LoMein came into being on a day when I forgot my lunch, leftover lo mein, and decided to pass the time with some sketches, and it ended up being a cat, so yes, I named my Japanese luck cat after a Chinese dish, he could have been called a sandwich. 

I wanted to continue playing with the linework, simple color pallet, and embossed paper feel I used in the Terminal Velocity series. It's a look I love, and given the subject matter, I thought it fitting.

The rough sketch is done on my Wacom Cintiq Companion, and from there, I move to Adobe Illustrator. The raster image was then hand inked into a vector image using a Wacom Intuos Pro and Astute Graphics' Dynamic Sketch for digital inking. The color was done with texture and blending modes with gradients to emulate traditional Japanese woodblock prints.