Excellend in some areas, not so in others. The shading could be vastly improved on most of the clothing, esp. the pants- but like you said, it's an old piece.
I don't really like the sphere's used for the fireballs. I think it would've looked a lot better if it would've been more flame-like and possibly engulfed the entire hand.
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