So this was born out of me watching the first episode of RossDraws' master series and recently watching the Code Geass movie trilogy, Thanks to all that I had portraits and complex emotional expressions in my head, and Alexi was the character I wound up drawing. Went for more subtle gradient shading with his hair and I kinda like it, will continue experimenting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHBjWaeZzs&feature=youtu.be