One Piece: Monkey D.Luffy

I find it really hard to describe this one because I have recieved soo many strange comments from my family and friends stating that this one doesn't seem a drawing at all !!!
I didn't understand what made them think like that. It's funny to remmember my little bro saying: "Wow, where did you get this from? meaning... he thought it was a printed one.....

It took forever to finish this one, that's why I wasn't submitting things lately in DA, sorry for that . I didn't enjoy it a lot because I had some problems with the black pen and the colored pencils ( some of them were missing, especially the ones I need for this drawing and the ones I always depend on)
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I even borrowed my eldest sis's Black marker to color the background ( that marker really stinks.. it was sooo smelly...)

hope you don't notice the wierd smile though I tried to make it realistic but it insisted to seem fake....


I really adore his smile

For the cridit, I took 2 pictures randomly from the internet and drew them beside each other and then added the effects. Don't know who really drew the original images but I hope saying this keeps their rights.
Links for the images:

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Some of you might think that I am soo free to do the effects or writing the name or even the whole coloring without using a program like Adobe Photoshop but I still don't feel comfortable using such programs not now.... maybe later when I can master it ......

Hope you like it and sorry again for the quality but I could'nt stand the smell of the marker ( sooo stronge, I suffer a headache now.....)