Old Vs. New: The Phantom's Smile 2014

Man it's been a while since I've made a decent "The Phantom's Smile" pic huh? Well I thought I would change that by not only doing a new pic (which I will post after this) but will also do a comparison of the old drawing I did back in... 2011?! Sheesh I really need to keep up with regular character drawings huh? whelp here they are in all of their glory. The differences? Well:

*The older Eric Boulegard was only seen as a blonde character, and would always wear black and sunglasses to seem mysterious i think, so in the newest rendition i decided to make him albino (so yes its not your computer screen showing discolouration, thats really his new skin tone and hair color) Which gives him a better excuse to wear so much black and wear glasses.

*I used plain black for the clothing in the old one (which looks ugly seeing as though you can't see any detail of the clothing in the old pic) So I decided to use different value so you can see the details much more clearly while still seeming like he's wearing black.

*The Phantom's Smile hasn't really changed all too much really. Then again I just put him in the background to look all cool and stuff... but hey at least he looks cool am i right? Right? RIGHT??!!

*Shading while not a total failure, does look a bit weird in the last pic, so I decided to do my way of cross hatching, since it's what I'm best at lol

What do you all think? Is it a major improvement? or do you think I can still fix a couple things? COMMENT PEEPS

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