The hair and hand are really nicely rendered.

Amazing work so far, although i can totaly say this piece is giving me the gloomy vibez =x

I've been a very gloomy person lately.

and thanks! =D

Ah well.. gloomy ina good way i hope (if theres such a thing as a good glomy x3)

I love the perspective! The hands, the watch, the folds in the clothes.. Everything's well done. Even the inking!

Love the hand, the clock, and the pose in general, looks great so far!

Personal suggestion: less detail on the hair and in the clothing; it clutters the image too much and you can flesh out more detail later through the shading!

I'll have to try that with the next image; unfortuantely, inking is such a tedious, time consuming process[three, four days spent on just outlining? Dx] that. I guess right now, the thought of going back and going over lines, ESPECIALLY in the hair, is just too daunting of a task. maybe when everything is completely outlined.

idk. it's just adding another day or two[or three] of work onto something I didn't want to spend more than a couple hours on.
/I wish I could art.

I don't like inking either :|
Tedious is the best to describe it, really. And I do have a habit to go overboard with them myself, mostly in the hair.

I try to stay away from inking as much as possible, it's just. unavoidable in my digital art since the shaking in my hands is a lot more obvious when I use a tablet than when I draw with a pencil.
I was thinking of maybe doing the same thing with the lines as I did with http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4822996/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3110189/ where the lines are still pretty thick and chunky, just painted over to blend in like they were almost never there; http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/.....pwithlines.jpg

IDK.

I like both the outlined and the outlineless version of the one picture!

May I ask which program you're using for inking? Sai and also CS3 and up I think offer stabilizers - they make inking a WHOLE LOT EASIER.

(--- and will un-learn you how to do delicious, smooth lineart in oC FOREVER)

I use CS2 for pretty much everything digital.

tried SAI several times, but I utterly can't stand the UI and that's a huge thing for me and programs.
never did much in oC either. xDD
except color two images because Eden kept telling me how awesome oC was for coloring.

Yeaah, the UI is pretty awkward at first, but I thought the same about PS until I got friendly with it (after comming from oC)

Haha oC is sweet, but it lacks some layer settings PS offers!

oC's layer settings confused me. xD

and I just don't think I can leave CS2 lovely, open expanse: http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/...../cs2layout.jpg
SORRY FOR SHOWING THAT DRAWING AGAIN. it's just what was open. xD

Haha aww mnan such a clean user interface |3

Do you ink the sketch on computer or the old fashioned way? I mean it's basically simplifying a sketch, even as complex as your style is. Most artists' commission fees charge twice for inking as an initial sketch. I never got that.

I only ever ink on a computer[unless I'm bored at work with a black pen and graph paper], and only when I draw the image completely digitally. if it's sketched on paper, then I usually don't bother with wasting time drawing big black lines on everything before I color.

and most artists charge twice as much for inking because a sketch is meant to be loose and and not fully refined, inking is meant to look clean and crisp, like coloring book lines.

Thanks, just wondering.

not a problem!

If I put a gun to your head, and handed you the lineart to this, and said "ink this or i'll kill you" and then you did this i'd let you live.

So have faith. There's a good chance that if you're ever involved in a random incident of incredibly specific yet convulute hostage negotiation, you'll survive unscathed. :)

As always, your level of detail is amazing. This inking seems great to me, anyway.