Mafioso muffin man colour exploration...

 I didn't end up including this character in my portfolio after advice from Kieran, however I had already played around with adding colour before this decision was made. Out of the two sheets, my preference would have been for either the bottom left or the bottom right colour palette on the sheet below.



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