Shonensan's Paladin faux inks

Why the hell didn't anyone ever tell me how awesome Paint Tool SAI is? I am totally in love with this program now, I soooooo want to marry the Canvas rotation tool.

First things first THIS CONCEPT, CHARACTER, DESIGN and OVERALL IMAGE ARE *NOT* MINE! The original image and character belongs to an artist I've admired for many years: I just drew over one of his images for practice. At first it was simply to test new pencilling brushes I had created for Photoshop (the head is actually completely drawn in PS) but then when I downloaded the trial version of SAI a couple days ago I absent mindedly started using this as an image to test the program and simply didn't stop. Seriously the ease of use and quality of that program are something I've been looking for for YEARS.

I'm really really really really excited to draw again, I'm so happy.

Original pencils here: [link]
Pencils and character (c) Henson Chenh