All in all this was quite a quick finish - I think in total I've not spent more than 3 or so hours on this. Now I've got to work out how I'm going to convert this grey scale to inks lol. Fortunately I tried to work in cross hatch rather than blended render, so it should just be a bit more straight forward (he says...) but we'll see.
Something still doesn't quite sit right about his face, but I'm hoping I'll work that out before inking tonight.
Had a lot of fun playing Xbox live last night with a bunch of friends from Uni I haven't hung out with in ages - with the party play function enabled, a group of 6 of us chatted and played either together or in seperate games and it was v. cool - really sociable.