So some time ago I noticed three things:
1. I have way too few artworks this year and won't have time for more
2. Dudes are very underrepresented among the characters in my portfolio
3. I'm absolutely in love with the sinister high-tech thugs of deepfry!

So what I did was obvious: I took one of deepfry's latest characters and tried to turn it into a 3d model while aiming for a different texturing approach this time. All the textures are handpainted (with few tiling exceptions) in Blender, Substance Painter and Photoshop. I was really trying to capture the gritty illustrative yet realistic feel that make deepfry's characters so juicy.
Thanks so much to deepfry for letting me use the original artwork as reference and for helping my with finding reference for the big snaphook. ;-)
Here is the original artwork:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1822EX