Nothing is drawn. Yhe sword is real. The background was either bucketed or airbrushed or both--forget which--it is a downsized file so detail is not great. is an older pic.

This is a pretty cool composite image. It appears to have both photographic and drawn in elements. For example, his sword and bracelet look drawn in. Is this the case?

To fix the small white areas around the subject, you could try the extraction tool in PhotoShop, painting the edges with a Wacom Tablet, or using a feathered selection of the subject and then paste him on the yellow background. The feathered selection will blur the edges slightly, thus allowing you to extract him more smoothly.