This is just fine stuff right here

BadASS

I love your style. its a bit dark with a whole lot of ill kick you ass in it. How do you start a sketch?

Exellent

Just like the completed picture. I believe with this kind of picture, the 'message' is in the pose. You could have added 4 tons of armour, a sword as large as himself and a score of dead corpses around him. But you created the same imposing effect just with his stance.
At least this is what I'm concentrating on in my own art (2 pieces to go and I'll be able to post them on NG!). I'm currently trying to draw semi-realistic characters from the Japanese Endo era. I spent most of the drawing time on developing the pose, the rest seems just filling in the details. :-)

Materials

Sweet, just wondering what you draw on and what you're drawing with, and then what did you color it with? This is pretty sweet tho.