Fer the Eimin

Crit Response Team here....sorry for the wait!

First of all I don't know where you get off saying you can't do cell shading?! This is great!

I'll tell you what I like about this: You chose to add a dark thick outline around the portrait - love it. When I first saw this technique at a anime cone I immediatly liked how it 'popped' the image. The shadows you used on the skin are just fine. Now it's up to you if you want more highlights. Ask yourself what you want to accomplish. Something more stylized? More realistic? Something in between? When you know what you want you may find exactly your color style is. I might reccomend a little dot of your darkest color value (yet, not black) in the deepest part of his ear. Also try this technique...instead of using black lines on the interior of his face try using dark gray or colors matching the character. The lines still show, but are muted. Although that's just me being picky. I'm trying the colored line technique myself with interesting results. ^_^

Was that nice enough? LOL

P.S.

If you'd like to see my coloring technique check this out. http://www.paperdemon.com/art_fullview.php/446.html