Armand - Last version

_{"You're sweet, boylike and pretty as a girl. I wish I had one glimpse of you in antique velvet the way you were for him, for Marius. I wish I could see for one moment how it was when you dressed in stockings and wore a belted doublet sewn with rubies. Look at you, the frosty child. My love doesn't even touch you."
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice}

Last version of Armand. I guess I never gonna paint him again, because... well, I'm totally satisfied with this illustration, which is exactly how I imagined Armand when I read the Vampire Chronicles. Armand v.1 will be on my scraps section. By the way, I wanted to paint the exact same position as on v.1, just to see my evolution from 2006 to now.

Closeups here: [link]