THX for watching!!!! (^.~)v

it's a hide-fanart!!!
i planned this long ago making several sketches
but this time it turned out to be the REAL one!
(it took me longer 'cause i didn't simply want to copy a photo of him)

i dedicated this to him for he's no longer with us
(he died in 1998, unknown if it was in a tragic accident or commiting suicide...
some people even claim that it was because of the disbanding of "X Japan"(1997)
in which he was playing the leading guitar and doing co-vocals).

this time the most hardest thing was to make his face look alike,
including the shape, shadows and of course the proportions.
actually i didn't expect it to turn out so well...
i even thought about throwing away the sketch!!
but happily i didn't want to give in after all.

i hope you'll like it as well.