Tell Me What Those Eyes Of Yours See - Bleach

This took forever to actually draw!! But I cannot even look at the background without my eyes bleeding uncontrollably -

I didn't know what to do with the background so I kinda stared at it for a couple of minutes and I had two options: watercolours or pastels - I chose watercolours cause I knew I couldn't stand how messy oil pastels are - which are the only pastels I have. These are one of the times I wish I had copics but I have no clue if copics actually work on this weird paper I used that isn't even white! After using the watercolours I totally gave up and lost my patience and was like - who cares how bad it looks!!

So yeah, I started this last year and I'm actually glad I finished it. A friend's birthday is coming up and I really want to do something like this for her. Cause she's a HUGE fan of Bleach just like me - but I'll use better paper and probably do a much smaller scale. Oh, and I used the chart method for this drawing and I do not own the original artwork - this is just a redrawn version of it to test my abilities. 

Oh, and doesn't Ichigo look so cute in this I freaking love him! I like the original Tite Kubo did MUCH better personally - I kinda failed in comparison Tell me what you guys think of it! If you have any advice please let me know - I really wanna improve!

The original artwork by Tite Kubo is here:  www.mangapanda.com/94-35988-12…

Ichigo Kurosaki is owned by Tite Kubo