He's...sooooo damn beautiful! Gorgeous guys exist amongst anime, Tolkein's lovely elves and heck if ever you hunt through asian singers/models, look at visual asian magazines then you know they exist there too! ^.^
And yeah agree with the digital labor! Though as for lines its pretty much just tracing over your own hand drawn works. I hate its time consuming and vexing.
Certainly a reason why I rarely ever do it.