Yusei Fudo +Gear+ -edit-

edit: i took everyone's comments and critques and tried to improve it?
dulled eyes a bit
made lips redder and "fuller?"
placed more detail in hair

i'm not sure how to make the shirt more realistic...

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I couldn't sleep last night (I was finishing a final project... orz) even though I had two hours of sleep for Monday...

so I decided to do a digital painting of Yusei... I need to practice realistic coloring too... :/

When they first aired that episode that introduced the Planetary Gear (it uses the same characters as Yusei in Japanese) I was soooo confused because all I heard was that Yusei was named after a Yusei thingy so I was like lol wat, Yusei's that thing in my pencil sharpener? But then ta-da for wikipedia [link] (I kinda stole the image of the planetary gear from there too, but I shooped it a bit... orz)
i'd love critique since im trying to work on my realistic painting skills =w=

PSP wallpaper-size!

Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Wacom Intuos3