wow... thats so awesome!

Thanks hun :D

The smudge tool one?

Partially smudge, partially just wiggling a slightly darker and slightly lighter colored tip around to make the illusion of fur. :)

Oh that's a good tip *jots it down in his head*

You're so, so welcome hun! You were a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend you as a client. :) I'm so happy that you love this piece and the experience of working with me. :) *hugs tight*

Your work is very well done Inali. It seems that you put a lot of time into everything so that people get the best out of what they pay for. I think that once my best friend  blinque gets my referance sheet done and my other requests done i'll be looking to get a commission of two from my favorite artists. ^^ You happen to be very high on that list. How often do you have openings for commissions?

The fur does look softer here!

Yes, and it was much easier to create! :D

Oh I gots to know where you found the info on the new technique.

I found it by trial and error and just dicking around with PS CS3.

I'm gonna have to do some experimenting to figure it out, cause the one i'm using is incredibly tedious.

Spectacular as usual! I love the way you do backgrounds *steals your secrets* :P

On my art CD, I'll have special tutorials about backgrounds that I won't release online. :)

Oh sweet! That's a good idea! :)

Ah, the Art Cd will come out soon??


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lovely work, X3 he sure can twist o3o

It's actually a pretty comfortable position. XD I took a picture of myself twisting like that to see what would go where.... kinda... comfy. XD Good stretching of the muscles, too. :3

odd angle on the legs, but otherwise very good

It's an illusion of the pants D: I redid the anatomy like... 3-4 times... it's freaking correct underneath XD

do you use photoshop for this?
i'm a beginner and i need some
tips to getting better

Wow its awesome~ nice job spirit =3

That's a damn good fur texture, I must say. Glad it turned out as you hoped.

That's a pretty flexible fur. . . :P *looks for the backbone*

I kid, I kid. How are you feeling? Better, I hope. Isaac (Allison's fiance) is sick too. :(

Yah, I talked to Alison on the phone yesterday and I heard about Isaac being sick. :( Now Scry is sick, too, and Matthais is also sick. x.x Stupid con crud.

I'm finally starting to feel better. :D I hope you're doing well, hun!

Fuck. I'm pregnant.

THE WORST CONCRUD OF ALL.

;_;

Isaac's actually doing much better now ^.^ I heard he went into work on Saturday and managed not to die doing it XP

Great, great piece. I love how you got those jeans to look so denim-y and I just LOVE the fireflies in the background!

I like the look of it for the most part. I think it could have benefitted from a defined light source. Right now it's hard to tell where the light is coming from exactly. I realize it's a forest,and that the light may be very diffuse, but it doesn't hurt to push the source just a tad, especially to add definition to the textures and such. The background trees are a nice touch, but the foreground tree's bark, while textured, feels very flat, probably due to the lighting issue described above. Even in ambient lighting, the rough bark of a tree will be strongly delineated. The same goes for the grass, which has no real texture at all.

The composition also feels "off" to me. You have large negative space behind the head, which is good, but the position and angle of the foreground tree leads my eyes to his belly and crotch; I find my eyes fight back and forth between there and the head. The composition might have been strengthened by brining the head more towards the trunk of the tree, so the eye flows easily to it. Also, the torso seems very strongly contorted--that fur has got one hell of a twisty spine!

That's about all I have time to comment on. Still, good work there, and I'm sure the commissioner is very happy with it. ^^

Love the hair! ^.^ Awesome color

Great piece and well done. Nice pose and color scheme.

Hope you're feeling better!

Wow! Awesome textures and the fur looks lovely and soft^^. How the F@*k did you do those rocks! 8O
Great job all round! :D

Thanks hun! :D I appreciate the compliment! :) The rocks were actually very easy. I just do a layer of flat coloring, in this case a beige color, and with otherwise my burn tool set on low-medium or a darker color, I put in where I want my cracks in the rock to be. Then, I put another layer on top of the flat colors of the rock, set it to multiply and opacity about half, and used a grunge brush with a darker color. Instant rock texture. :3 I did another layer above that, but just set to normal, and used a natural brush in photoshop to create the moss. :) There ya go, rocks! :D It's a fun way to paint, but man, I ended up with near 75 layers on this piece. :(

Wow. Sounds so simple but the results look so amazing! I need to practice drawin' rocks 'coz right now mine they look like cardboard boxes X3. 75 layers ay, I could never work with more than 8, I just get lost XD. Well thanks for the reply! C8

just now seeing this *hugs* very nice pic