amethyst redraw [+speedpaint]

This is such a fantastic redraw!
Forget redraw, it's fantastic, period.
I've been lucky enough to have been watching you basically my entire career on deviantArt and I thought you were good back then (God, almost five years) but watching how you've progressed and improved since then has been such a blessing.
The style is wonderful, and your background/effects and shading skills are superb. You as an artist and as a person inspire me to keep at it in hopes that I can draw as well as you do now someday in the future.
And as great as this is, I just know you'll keep getting better. I truly hope I'm able to stick around for all your improvements in the future as I have for the past few years.