You're getting pretty good mate. Love your style man. This sprite's got a lot going for it. The lights are really cool. THe pen is tight too. ^_^ The c4ds in the bottom right are tight as well. Effects are beautiful. Text kills the crap out of it though. I would stick with something less "showy" than that font. Very nice job man.
i don't like those pentool lines surrounding him. also, the text doesn't look good to me. the tag has hope tho, so if you consider it a w.i.p., then i'm sure your final outcome will be much better imo.
v1 is way better bro!!!!!! ps. never put your text like in v2 over the render like that..... doesnt look good
Agreed with the previous posters about the text in V2. No text looks a lot better IMO. Just my 2 cents.