The making of a character design of a friend. 
Meet Nicky the programmer. 

This idea is based on a small (practice) project that I did for myself. 
'creating character's for a few of my friends' 

Underneath you can see the build up of this illustration: 

Eventhough this was made for the fun & giggles I ended up stereotyping one of my friends to create recognision for a lot of people and create a 'programmer' with some personal details !