Phew.
Finally finished it.
This has taken me a good 10-14 days stop start... but most of those days were the drawing of this piece. I've never really tried painting a piece before but I enjoyed it. Its not a vector, I dont think, even though thats what I called it, because vectors are made up of layers and well look more cartoony dont they? This was done solely with the brush tool and pen tool for the outline...
Basically here was the final painted render:
[link]And thats only half size btw, I shrunk it. It was 180mb by the end.

Been trying to make it into a piece today, of course I have a bit of time to change it but Im happy with the way it turned out. I dont think the focus of this was the background or effects, I just wanted to get a decent image out with as much detail on particularly the lines and shading as possible.
So yeah, this has been one of my longest works, would REALLY appreciate hopefully what will be some positive opinions, but Im open to anything that can be improved on.
Thanks!