Happy Belated Birthday Nino

i painted this in Photoshop

my biggest disappointment is not being able to draw his mole

Okay, it took me forever to figure out how to upload this thing :S somehow i missed the 'submit' drop down menu -_-


the WIP:
[link]

although it's not showing for me...??



i can't say how long this took my exactly. I'm still not completely satisfied but it'll do XD I worked straight through to midnight on the 16th after work. Probably around 2? The day before i did the rough sketch for the arms but i don't know how long that took So 10 + 2-ish plus about and hour or two on his birthday....i didn't work on it at all yesterday and i finished it today in another 3 hours or so :s how do people do speed paintings in under 2 hours?!?! Amazing XD The hardest part (obvs) was the face :S I kept re-starting the thing which resulted in 10 straight hours of painting and belting out Arashi songs XD

so, i'll say it took around 18-20 hours...?

i'll post the WIP into my scraps I just wanted to post it ASAP so i haven't put together the WIPs

i didn't get the look i was going for but at least it looks like him XD no linking to the pic because it'll be obvious what the mistakes are then