The background took me a while to draw and it wasn't the easiest thing to pull off. I used a light pencil 'H' to draw with for this. I didn't want the jigsaw to dominate the actuall portrait too much, As with most of my artwork, i photocopied my original drawing and experimented with different ways to draw the jigsaw pieces on the photocopies.
I liked the idea of having some of the pieces missing, It was inspired by the fact that he needs to find all the missing pieces to solve the puzzle, i.e the crime.
Done, done, on to the next one.....