This is my drawing of the original image:

The Colored One by Frantisik

These are some thumbnail sketches:

These are my attempts using gouache paint on 9×12:


The overall process was very enjoyable. We got to take apart an image layer by layer and using those layers we constructed something entirely different. The idea of positive and negative space is interesting on its own. Using gouache paint was a little difficult than I thought, but I will get better!