This was did in the first day I was trying Krita (stable version 2.3.x). W.I.P...

The brush I used was mimic one of my custom presets from Photoshop.

I never cease to be amazed to see what people do with the app I've been working on for the past years... I'm so happy to see such great results!

Cool. This looks a bit like the eye of Sauron

Nice work!

I find it interesting how you got such a "wet" look like the part just above your name. I'm guessing this is mainly using the smudge brush?

What was the original size of the canvas you painted this on?

Thank you for such enthusiastic assessment of my unfinished work! But this is only a sketch...

Kubuntiac wrote:I find it interesting how you got such a "wet" look like the part just above your name. I'm guessing this is mainly using the smudge brush?

No, it's only a Pixel brush, no smudge. That brush preset is one of my very first brushes in Krita and I used strange (and wrong, I think) opacity curve. But I share it, for your research, here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?tj8cavx8c4j6ae9

Kubuntiac wrote:What was the original size of the canvas you painted this on?

It is 1153x1183 pix.

Cropped variant in original scale: