The tones/shading actually reminds me of the old renaissance paintings for some reasons... I don't know why...when I actually looked at some I realised they're not that similar at all...but that's what popped into my head, anyway 9u9
Even if it's different, it's cool to have gotten enough depth to remind you of them. My natural tendency is to keep everything light and ambiguous, so I pushed myself hard the whole time to put in shadows (with colors other than black! who knew?) And then I ended up pushing them a little further on his face digitally.
Heh, in contrast...
I was sorting through the many pencils of my childhood, and I found a cool pencil that was green on one side and purple on the other! And an orange/blue one too, as well as an old dying purple pen. And a wild Braidy appeared XD
I forgot what his clothes actually looked like (hey, it was very late ;P) and also that hands are not claws (also how to draw and hold a pencil in general. It was very, very late) X') oh well~
I love the expression! I'm terrible at simplifying people down to good "cartoon" type shapes and expressions, so this is really impressive to me.
Also, I laughed when I saw he has a flower in his hair. The whole thing captures the carefree attitude he's supposed to have.