Self-portrait..

[Nightflower]

...only because I had the photo for reference (Eyyuuuugh! What a terrible school picture I had! It looks nothing like me! Even my friends agree with me). Drawn and colored on the computer using OpenCanvas (Mmmm OpenCanvas).

http://www.sixies.org/users/nightflower/nf_irl.jpg

[Frozen]

Nice. The work on the skin tones is excellent!

[The Mad Hatter]

I'll have to agree, there's some nice shading going on here. And I like what you've done with the background, too.

[Bic]

Ditto that!

Very nice, the skin tones are great and the BG doesn't distract from the focal point, the portrait.

My only nitpick, and it's small one at that, would be that the eyes need a tad bit of sharpness to them to express the whole ''windows of the soul" more clearly in the painting.

Query:
Drawn and colored on the computer using OpenCanvas
I've never heard of OpenCanvas before, as I strictly use PhotoShop, but I love the painterly feel you gave the image, something sorley lacking in PS 6. Can you point me in the right direction?