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Mind Games by Near

This is Part One of a series of three. In each of them, one character from the anime series Death Note is going to bring a tribute to another character from the same anime.
The first one under the spotlight is Near, who's paying his respects to the infamous L by sporting the trademark undereye circles and an overall heavy and serious atmosphere. Also, he's not his usual introvert and somewhat antisocial self, for he is looking straight into the camera, in a manner similar to that of L's (remember that scene when L finally introduces himself to Light? when he was glaring at Light as if he wanted to read beyond the brown eyes and straight into his soul? XD loved that).

"Mind Games", by Near (tribute to L)
"Tactics" by L (tribute to Near)
"Checkmate" by Misa

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I did this for the Otaku Festival III: Play, which will take place between the 9th and 10th of May, in Bucharest. I resized the original huge-ass version (an A3 format, which I sent to the jury of the exposition), but I doubt that much will prevent art theft.
Please, please, please don't steal this. But if you do, please credit me in one way or another: not because I'm an attention seeking whore, but because I want different people with different views to criticize this work so that I can learn from my mistakes and improve on my future. Thank you!

If you do decide to drop some constructive criticism (for which I'll be very grateful), please comment mostly on the coloring techniques. I'm aware of almost all the mistakes I did regarding the lineart (even though I did use a reference; albeit it was a small 10cm-height one for a 21cm-height sketch), so I'd really appreciate some feedback regarding the colors, from any point of view you want. I tried a lot of things on this work and I need to know which ones were the right choices and which I must never repeat again. Thank you so very much!
Near (C) Ohba and Obata
artwork (C) Irina Nicolae
reference from Tricia Gosingtian's photography, model Crissey: [link]

Description
Mind Games by Near

This is Part One of a series of three. In each of them, one character from the anime series Death Note is going to bring a tribute to another character from the same anime.
The first one under the spotlight is Near, who's paying his respects to the infamous L by sporting the trademark undereye circles and an overall heavy and serious atmosphere. Also, he's not his usual introvert and somewhat antisocial self, for he is looking straight into the camera, in a manner similar to that of L's (remember that scene when L finally introduces himself to Light? when he was glaring at Light as if he wanted to read beyond the brown eyes and straight into his soul? XD loved that).

"Mind Games", by Near (tribute to L)
"Tactics" by L (tribute to Near)
"Checkmate" by Misa

===

I did this for the Otaku Festival III: Play, which will take place between the 9th and 10th of May, in Bucharest. I resized the original huge-ass version (an A3 format, which I sent to the jury of the exposition), but I doubt that much will prevent art theft.
Please, please, please don't steal this. But if you do, please credit me in one way or another: not because I'm an attention seeking whore, but because I want different people with different views to criticize this work so that I can learn from my mistakes and improve on my future. Thank you!

If you do decide to drop some constructive criticism (for which I'll be very grateful), please comment mostly on the coloring techniques. I'm aware of almost all the mistakes I did regarding the lineart (even though I did use a reference; albeit it was a small 10cm-height one for a 21cm-height sketch), so I'd really appreciate some feedback regarding the colors, from any point of view you want. I tried a lot of things on this work and I need to know which ones were the right choices and which I must never repeat again. Thank you so very much!
Near (C) Ohba and Obata
artwork (C) Irina Nicolae
reference from Tricia Gosingtian's photography, model Crissey: [link]