I like the coloring on the gun and Ace's eyes and tail.

I'm not sure if it's just my screen brightness, but like with a lot of your pictures, the colors generally appear too dark. I mention this again here, because what I'm about to say next may be simply because we have different monitor settings, but the coloring of the body other than what I mentioned seems off, almost like none of it really goes together. After placing the image in a program to see what it would look like on brighter settings, the picture does appear to be a little more in harmony, however, the colors still seem to clash.

I know that you've been trying to work on your backgrounds, so a little advice when using gradient would be to aim for a smoother, more gradual fade. At the moment, the background light gradients too harshly.

As I said on your lineart of this piece, the lines are great. I didn't notice the absence of the handle before, and just assumed that it was hidden behind the rest of the gun. I'm sure Ace will be pleased when he sees this.

Thank you for the tips, Todd! I think the real issue here with the colors clashing is that I used very different colors than I usually do when shading. Normally, I'll pick either a darker tone or whatever I'm shading (and a lighter tone for the highlights) or I'll stick to light and dark blue as a standard. In the case of this picture I wanted a feeling of fire so I used yellow for the highlights, and dark orange and red for the shading. Those colors on gray/black fur and blue jeans may not have come off so well as I was hoping. In regard to the darkness...maybe I just have a very bright monitor? I don't know. I'll try to lighten things up next go around to see if that works any better.

I like that shading work there, and echoing RabidFox: the coloring on the eyes, gun and tail is phenomenal!

Didn't notice the lack of handle until you said something about it.

Yes...but these are the little things that plague the artist and make her eye twitch, so she must share the misery.;P

Looks amazing Sar. Even without the handle for the gun. :) I like it alot. Ace's eyes are actually gold, but blue looks good on him too. ;) Definetly faved, of course. :)

The typical pose of a *want to be Gangsta*. ^^

Have you seen the movie "Date Night" with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey? There's a line that goes something like:

"He turned the gun sideways! THAT'S A KILL SHOT!"

No, I´ve not seen this my. ^^

Holding a handgun like this is the best way to hurt yourself. XD

I wouldn't know, but it does look cool and totally gangsta! XD

Believe me, if you want to hit the aim, you use both hands for holding the gun.

Who said I wanted to hit anything? ;P

Hahahaha, yeah. XDDD