You've put quite a lot of work into that hat, my dear. Excellent job on the details. He looks a lot more soft-hearted than I imagine. The only real problem I can see, though, is that I can't exactly tell where his shoulders fall...
This is a big jump from your older portraits - you've taken more time in the shading and facial features, and especially clothing details. All in all, you've done an awesome job. Kudos!
Thank you so much, hun. That hat was a b*tch to do. all of those pearls... I couldn't tell where the shoulders fell in the picture that I was drawing it from either. Most of it was all dark so, you really couldn't see much towards the lower half of the photo. It had a very dark background that was just meshed in with his hair and his robes and everything else, so I had to do a bit of guess-work on some of the details. Maybe I'll go back and do something different with it later. For now I'm pretty comfortable with it. Thank you so much for the wonderful comments. I appreciate the time you took to review my picture. ^_^
I appreciate you telling me about it. I thought something looked amiss, but I was just so damn happy to finally be done with it, that I completely over-looked it. I am currently working on the shoulder area and hope to have the revision posted tomorrow. Thanks again for all of your help. Your critiques mean so much to me because you are awesome and I think I could learn alot from your reviews. ^_^
I am done with the revisions. Let me know if it looks any better, okay? I don't think I would ever get tired of drawing Vlad. Anything else, maybe. But not the Impaler Prince. ^_^
This is a big jump from your older portraits - you've taken more time in the shading and facial features, and especially clothing details. All in all, you've done an awesome job. Kudos!