Hrhr, cheers, chap! Great to hear that from a portrait pro like you. :)

The texture of his skin, Jesus Christ!

Thank you! Glad you like the piece.

I like the deep eye... and the texture of course!

Thank you very much Marina! It's always a joy reading your comments. :)

I like it pretty much. Specially the texture and the way you apply it :P

@ Yaume

Hey, thank you! Your compliment about my technique made my day. :P

@ felch

Thanks chap I appreciate it.

I did a smaller version prior to this one but was not satisfied with the outcome. It was just impossible to get the amount of detail and texture on his skin I wanted.

@ jtfjtfjtf

Cheers! Yep, Bonner is the best of them all. ;)

@ eigenbom

Thanks a ton! :)    

The subtle change of color in the eye's iris is quite similar to your avatar wolf.

Your have an excellent pixel drawing techniche, congratulations

The skin texture you've achieved is great and the eyes look so alive! I just want to see a bit more, damn that canvas restriction! :)

Very cool texture! And I loved Bonner's stuff for Rackham.

Wow, amazing stuff, love the texturing :)

@ rhlstudios

Thank you! Cool you like his skin.

@ bob

Hehe, i bet he was badly bullied in school. Thank you very much! :)

I tried my best to make him look as stressed and worn out as possible without changing the ref too much. The easiest way to do that was through the skin texture I think.

Glad you dig the eye!

@ Manupix

Thanks.

Oh yes, It does look pretty wierd. Almost impossible to read it as a hand without knowing about the ref.

@ w4rlock

Many thanks! :)

@ DoctorDRG

Thanks a lot. Glad you like the texture. :)

@ ADrawingMan

Cheers, mate! :)

@ Nih

Thank you very much. :D

Dat texture <3

Oh god, the acne

The dithering(/texture) works surprisingly well, kudos for being so bold! I dig the strong shadows and as said the texture(/dithering), gives this lovely dovely palette a serious and menacing impression... which I really dig

(and the eye )

awesome !!

Amazing!

Only crit is that the hand isn't obvious at all with this close cropping.

Fantastic use of the purple, and the texture is similarly well done. 

Really neat idea for textures!

i really love your shading <3