Mass Effect Fluff: Headache

A bit of Shenko fluff for practice. I'm getting better at drawing characters and faces and at paneling, I think. Shading is a pain and takes forever, so I think when I go into production on a longer comic series, I'll have to simplify things quite a bit.

Comments and critiques are welcome. I'd like to hear constructive feedback so I can improve my work. Also, if you want to add this to your group, just go ahead and let me know. Please don't post this on other websites without a link back to this page.

Used screenshots and XNALara models for reference. Sketched on paper. Sketched some more and inked in Manga Studio. Detailed and shaded in Photoshop.

I own nothing but a pen. Mass Effect belongs to Bioware.

Edit: It's always after I upload that I notice all the stupid little things I missed. I will update this again soon.
Edit 2: OK, I updated it. I shaded in one panel that I had somehow forgotten before (whoops!) and changed the eyes a bit.
I consider this done, but I might come back and tweek a few things later. I'm looking at other fancomics like this and noticing that some people blurred their backgrounds. I think that, in the panels that have backgrounds, the lines are too sharp and compete with the foreground. What do you think? To blur or not to blur...
Edit 3: Went with blurring. I'm a little unhappy with the eyes. Also, I noticed that I forgot the camo pattern in one panel. ARG! Now I'm the one getting a headache!
Edit 4: Fixed a few things that were bugging me. This must be what it feels like to be an author and read your own published work only to discover new typos. Oh, I also made the image bigger.

WIP Version:

OK, so a few things I learned from making this:
1. Don't fill up the scratch disk. It will make Photoshop not want to save. Also, don't save a dozen versions of the same project on the desktop. It gets ugly fast.
2. Make the backgrounds and the foregrounds separate. Trying to blur the background and not the foreground is difficult.
3. I should probably simplify the shading and detail if I want to make a comic series with a reasonable release schedule.
4. No matter how many Mass Effect screenshots I have, I will never have the one that I need. WTF does the inside of the Normandy look like from this angle?
5. Yard work, especially planting apple trees, is a bit of a scheduling conflict with art. Delays, delays, delays.

For more of my Mass Effect work, go here - [link]