SciFi and Fantasy Art: Zamlan -original

I often get comments about my digitial work, but reecently my greatest improvements have been in natural media. Unfortunately I rarely do fantasy art with natural media. I felt that I should use the original for one of my digital pieces to show how I've improved.

This is the main male character in my book, counterpart to Adalelle.
Zamlan could easy have grown up as a serf and lived a simple life, but it was not his fate to escape war or Adalelle. One day when he was very young, he was asked to either accept a great burden or watch his family die.
Oblivious to the consequences he accepted the burden only to find himself cursed for the rest of his years, and permanently bound to Adalelle. 
Though he may appear small, do not be decieved. He is a hardened murder, not above kidnapping or torturing. Unless you are Adalelle, you would be in danger around him.