in that last render im transfixed to the eyes they look great , so detailed ,the toon shading on the rest makes them look a little out of place maybe.
Well if its a boy I would still give him smaller squarer eyes. Its improving. Although I think a mullet would be funnier. Darker hair color would be better I think, seriously. And perhaps a more defined face? Try to avoid one of the pitfalls of manga where a ton of them have really girly looking guys.
Ok, so I fixed the hair geometry and gave him a darker haircolor.
@Hazza:
Well, I decided I would not use the popular texture from the “pixar eye” tutorial, so I googled and found this:
@womball: I’ll do something about that when I’ve finished the hair.
Thanks for the inputs.
Update: I have an sepiroth action figure on my desk, so I couldn’t avoid getting inspired. How do you like the style of the hair now?
I also tried to make him more masculine:
Far far better! Now you see that it’s clearly a boy (the lower body sort of looks female though, but I believe you haven’t started on those too much just yet)
The hair’s starting to come out really good now too. Maybe the forehead is a bit too low (as in, move the hair further up on it) but that’s just a question of taste, so don’t bother if that’s how you want it.
Furthermore the hair’s a bit blocky mostly on top of the head, you should try to make it smoother (you can sort of see the edges, quite sharp).
Oh, and I just noticed. The eyelids are not touching the eyes on all parts, but I suppose you’ve seen that too ^^
I like Kefka much better than Sephiroph. But that’s beside the point. He is looking better, but still girly. Especially with long hair. I think the original short hair was better, just it didn’t work with particles. I think the short hair would work for him if its the same technique your using. You should also add a couple more layers to give it even more depth. With slightly different colors per layer.
Update!
Added a sword (My main idea was to not make an action-type of character, but I realised that I don’t have the patience). The main idea of this sword is not for it to be functional, but to look cool. It’s mechanical, so it can be cstomized, the blade can be rotated an made longer. I tried to render without cellshading and maby I’ll stick with that (if only AO didn’t take all that time…), what do you think?
And here’s a skech of the armor (did it while eating breakfast, don’t judge me to hard):
the hair comes forward far too much…it should only hang forward, not grow on the forehead…it kind of makes it look…a bit … odd :-?
hands need some work…
is that a sword? looks good anyway 
I took a break (actually I battled some with my graphics card), but here’s an update:
I’ve been adding an armor amn playing some with armatures (gotta love the new ones) but the hands still look like crap, and the hair has been compleatly messed up (gonna try the static particles again, as they have inproved a lot since i last played with them). On top of that, I’ve had some trubble with weight painting, don’t know how to do at the joints, it looks realy odd atm. Any good links/tutes?
Update! fixed the hair and rigges the hands (they actually looked pretty decent when i got them rigged). I will redo the shoes, as they suck.
do you think I should add ears or not?