Photo Ref Goodness - WIP

I am drawing this entirely with the paint brush tool at the same brush size for everything in photoshop 6.0 (erase? noo... just use a white paint brush). Hence this is kind of like drawing a whole bunch of strokes with pen for me (using a decently small brush, and a wacom tablet) without the need to scan. Done at a working res of 1024x768, I reduced res and cropped to make the shading look relatively smoother as that pen-like effect can't really be achieved all that well without working at a higher res than putting it out. Blurred a little with jpeg quality and tada.

Its still not done (obviously) and I add a little bit each time I get some spare time to sit down. Need to add hair, and proper shades & highlights to his hair, and tweak it a bit. Ahh new years eve..

PS: I think I made him look kind of evil, changed his proportions somewhat.. Its a photo ref off da [link] I haven't asked them yet if I can up a drawing of their photo I will now and remove if they have a problem.