This old parchment page look is STILL my very very favorite style. Compliments on the character, it sounds like you've really thought and figured everything out about him. ^_^
Oh and I love his hair, or the way you drew it, or something.

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Please, call me Tenka. ^-^

You definitely do have a knack for matching textures with characters (and creating them so that they look awesome), this fits with what you typed out for Isleteon perfectly.

Fabulous design. :B

Specifying "tiny" made it for me. : D

I love the way you do your reference sheets - they look like old parchment documents. How do you manage that?

Just a few questions - what paper grade do you use, and what do you use to color?

Okay, this was a few steps, really. So long post ahead xD

I just doodled the drawings with regular pencil, on an actual low quality sketchbook, getting the lines dark, and... I'm actually missing scanner access, so I took a macro photograph in order to get the line detail with a light overhead so I didn't have to use flash, got it onto my computer, put it into photoshop, then adjusted the levels heavily. Because there was still a lot of grays around the corners (photography), I created a separate layer above the drawing, set it to "overlay" or else "soft light" and filled in a color that I wanted to tint the lines. In this case, a light brown set to soft light.

I merged all the layers at this point if I liked it, made the now toned drawing the top layer, and set the mode to "multiply." I colored everything on a layer under this one using a really opaque brush, and not worrying if things looked a little messy, or seemed transparent. Some areas, such as the white of his hair, just would NOT show up on that layer, because of the toned lines, so I actually drew them above the lineart layer, just with a heavy transparency (I don't think I used screen). Because everything else is so dark, the white looked whiter.

Once coloring is done, I created one more layer above everything else, and pasted in whatever texture (for most of these, I'm using old paper textures... rust textures, or something else messy; you can get some from Hibbary, or you can download them at random google sites), and then, once I had the texture resized to the image, I set the mode to either "multiply" or "overlay" In this case, "overlay" and I lowered the transparency a lot.

The drawing still didn't look QUITE like old parchment, so I did a light filter (accidentally on the texture layer as well as the main one, but I liked the effect), of Filter --> artistic --> rough pastells (I believe), and I just adjusted the settings to not have it too strong or overbearing. And that's the entire long process. It's much quicker, really, when you're used to it. Truthfully, I'm making things up as I go with these... it's fun to experiment.

The short version is that to make them look old, I just use several filters and textures as well as messy transparent coloring.
hahaa, hope this helps in SOME way

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The key is that it is tiny xD He's not even graced with a large cat, ahahaa

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Ohhh he's a cool character!

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XD That is a long process. Thank you very much for sharing. I'll have to try it out.