Loving the depth and lighting.. I have to disagree with you Verbal, the coloring is actually pretty good because Kratos' original color is like reddish which is a bit boring, so it's refreshing to see Kratos with more relaxing/cooling colors.
Heh, good one, it is nice to see you improving. A b/w version may looks better, the coloring is a bit weird. Lighting and depth is better than in your actual sig, how I said. Keep going. This time you set the render very big into the canvas, smallen it, then it is more fun on the bg.
Damn that depth is good, Kratos' skin tone would show a tad so it would look more cool to me, some may disagree too.