That's GORGEOUS :D Love the effect of the gold!

Ooh, it's lovely! Actually totally dig the simplicity; you really captured him even without a lot of detail (Which I would think has got to be the more difficult task :D).

Can't wait to see it in person! I've been wanting a piece of your art for months and months and months so it's SO COOL to finally see how you interpreted Zal. I'm super happy :)

Thank you very, very much!

Aw yay! Very glad you like how he came out. :)

And thank you so much for saying that bit about detail. I usually run into it with other kinds of stuff I do (usually my own) where the lines are clean and simple in appearance where I don't think half the people realize the difficulty in pulling that off. In doing that, there's like.. so much less places for mistakes to hide in so every line has to really count. x_x But the simplicity gets deceiving since I'll clean the lines on paper, then again in Photoshop and if its a sketch I'm using rather than an inked piece I can't use levels or brightness/contrast to clean it up. Instead I'm sketching around both sides of the lines in white then filling in the space between. x_x

Oh my goodness that process sounds intense and crazy x_x Yikes! But yeah I figure it's like writing - a 500 word short story is infinitely harder than a five or twenty pager. So much more goes into every little thing you do - and you do that awesomely :D

Beauuutiful face! ^^

This turned out really beautiful.

I like your deck of cards.