Three Cups of Coffee

Out in the street it's 6 a.m.
Another sleepless night
Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head
From what went down last night
-- Blue Morning, Blue Day by Foreigner

I've been working on this image on and off for the past three years, I am so happy to have finally finished it.

I tried (yet another) new shading technique on this one which is (hopefully) more interesting than my standard all-airbrush style.

Thanks to my wife for suggesting the addition of sugar packets


Pencil sketch
three characters designed in Inkscape
everything else is GIMP 2.2 - 2.6
40 layers(!)

--Edit: Dropped some of the yellowishness to make the shading pop a bit more, while still keeping the incandescent look