Ah I'm glad you liked it bluexel, at some point I was wondering if I wasn't going a bit too far with it. Tried to merge as many of your likes too, but I had to make choices
That adds an even bigger layer to the whole thing.
It's almost a self portrait too since I've used a fair bit of references of myself to draw it 
I'm glad you like it weird minister 
I went above and mostly beyond to awake the sleeping nightmare....thank you @space-agewrangler I'm glad you like it!
@shm31 I wanted to make fancy answers with links and everything like you do but I figured I would never answer if I did that soooooo. Thank you!!! I'm glad you like it! At some point I considered studying your style for face texture patterns because it would fit well here I think but instead I did that.
The swirly textures and clusters work so well here. Very cool painterly style! Those little plus sign dithering clusters are cool too!
Your stylised clusters, which sometimes replace dither function, is what recognise as best, but of course I love everything else you have put into this artwork.
Woah Umbohr, this is intense! What a great concept, and what wonderful detailing and movement.
This is top notch, one of the best artworks i have ever seen here!
Thanks a lot Umbohr! You put it together so well,and so many details to see here, I love it very much! 
Awesome portrait :p No seriously, this is great! Fantastic expression!
So awesome 
You really went above and beyond for this one!
Thanks sedicebisonte, I wasn't too sure about the composition on this one (though I'm not sure on composition ever) and swapped alot of elements around. The movement would be quite better if horizontally swapped I feel, but this revealed too many anatomical imperfections to keep it that way