Thankyou all for your comments. As you can see in the preview the character was a little dark, the colours must have messed up when I adjusted the brightness. I don't have my computer at hand at the moment [on holiday] so i'll fix that and the background as soon as I get back.
i luv it because i have a friend named rica except she spelled it with a c not a k. i like it. its like an older self portrait of her.