I love `Artgerm - in the hetero way. >_>
His work has inspired me for years.

Now that I have a tablet, I can work in much greater detail, and quite I'm kinda tired of my apparent lack of effort in many of my pieces. Granted: I was drawing them with a mouse, or it was in the early stages of my switch to a more anime style from my stick figure days.

But with that in mind: what better way to kick off my new year than by finally putting my hands to work making my first high-detail art for the artist who inspired me to start trying new styles and color theories?

I'm kind of sad that I didn't know that the Pepper Project was coming to an end. I would've loved finishing this in time for that.

But with all of that said, I'd like to get some running critique on this. I'll be updating repeatedly as I finish more of the picture.

I'm putting alot of time into this one. What you see up there is about 1 hr of work.

Thanks everyone!

EDIT: No references used, by the way. :]
EDIT2: 2 hrs total off and on so far
EDIT3: 5 hrs total off and on. Feedback would be appreciated. :]