Illithid Sorcerer

So I've been wanting to do one of these guys for awhile, but was never good at drawing them, this is my first kinda successful Mindflayer. Kinda makes me want to play D&D again. wish they had a decent console game out there in a kind of Elderscrolls type of play.... anyway.

Here are the lines and shading i did, which again, took forever for some reason. however i am pleased with the way it turned out.

And here is what i did with the colors.  i think they turned out ok, was wanting to use that skin shine thing ive been trying out...i think that part came out good, the rest i could've done better with, but im still learning colors on my own. pretty good for self learning for the time being.