Creating a custom Discord emote

Greetings! ₍₍ ◝(●˙꒳˙●)◜ ₎₎

I'm here to share my last creation - a custom 'confused' Discord emote.

Finished piece:
confused finished.png First thing first - credits for character design go to @theepicrobin.

And now to my work progress!
I start by looking for reference images and based on those, I start working on rough sketches.
I usually make few variations, but this is the one I decided to use.
emote progress - 1.png

The next step was to clean it out.
emote progress - 2.png

Once I was satisfied with how my sketch looks, I proceeded with linework.
emote progress - 3.png

And flat colors.
emote progress - 4.png

After shading it, I had the finished piece.
Then I tested it in chat, to make sure it is readable.
Discord test.png

And so this concludes emote creation process for this piece.
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Samples of my other emote creations:
Emote sample sheet.png