claymore - ghosts

new challenge,
done from scratch, used many reference pictures - all for haircuts, and characters' individuality

aim was to show the whole ghost group from claymore, landscape you see could (should?) be interpreted as passage to northern lands (if you read claymore you know)

i tried to portray armor and clothes as closely as possible, made few changes/decisions about some elements,also i tried to show each character's personality

finally i was able to draw some other claymore characters too

this was a challenge for many reasons, composition (many elements) and style the biggest ones, then sword reflection, landscape and many other things
the sword alone didnt just came out right on the first try, but after coming back to it to improve, it got better
i literally spent 2 hours figuring out how to make it shine and another 1 hour of transforming Mirias picture onto the sword to make the reflection believable, i browsed for some references on the sword but in the end found none and had to simply predict how would the light react

im sure there are countless irregularities tough
critique and comments are most welcomed

photoshop + paint SAI, about 50 raw hours