oh wow

great work :3

Thank you for the compliment!

I said it in the stream, but absolutely stunning work as usual. Great job, bud. ^^

Gotta keep pushing those limits ;). Again, thanks for sticking around!

Psh I still think its super amazing and awesome! Said so in the stream! :D. Now take a days rest or so. You need to rest too. we sick people need that XD

Thanks dude! And I'll try to...I'd hate to relapse now that I'm almost over this illness XD.

Excuse me a minute...

*Steps outside, jumps up and down, and squees for several minutes before coming back in.*

Beautiful. Brilliant, even!

Thank you so much, Bery! I will definitely be proud to show this one around.

May I put it up in my gallery, too?

Yay!

Sorry for not waiting for your confirmation on the markings, but I just hit my zone and couldn't stop drawing. I'm glad you like it, and you absolutely may upload it to your gallery. If you wait a minute, I'll e-mail a copy of the image minus the border and at a higher resolution to you.

That would be awesome! I'll share this verson on the web, since you've already got it out, and keep the hi-rez version for me. *Grins*

Still staring.

I dig the painted-on stripes. What a clever touch! There is definitely a lot of subtlety that the color added.

Oh, man, I am so happy! Berymuch, if you were anywhere nearby, I would be giving you a rib-crushing hug for this!

You should be thanking yourself for giving me such a cool refsheet to work with! I would have never been able to draw this as it looks now if it wasn't for some awesome inspiriation. The stripes were tricky for me because I had originally wanted to fur texture them on....but it just didn't look right- Almost messy, y'know? Then, I hit upon this method and really dug the results and went with it!

I'd probably explode in snot if you did hug me- let's count ourselves blessed. XD

Aha, so you're the one who gave me this cold, eh? ;)

And it totally makes sense that a native warrior would have painted stripes for battle or ceremony, which this scene suits both. :)

Hey, so I was perusing your gallery, because I haven't been on FA in aaaaaaages, and I stopped to drool over this pic again (still one of my absolute favorite pieces ever). And it occurred to me. The painted on stripes are even more appropriate. Although not a Blackfoot, Crazy Horse (the famous Oglala Sioux chief who strove along with Sitting Bull for Lakota freedom and ownership of the Montana and Dakota plains) was covered with little white spots whenever he went into battle. The markings represented hailstones, and came from a powerful vision he had of the freedom he would earn for the Lakota people. It's what drove him to be such a formidable warrior, and why he inspired so many others. Unfortunately, the time it took to paint the hailstones all over his body meant he was late to the fight at Little Bighorn, but the warriors he and Sitting Bull inspired still got their victory!

Beautiful work, as always. I'm sad I didn't get to stay for the whole stream, but the results really speak for themselves. :3

I never did end up figuring out the photoshop thing, so the last little bit was just me farting around with smoke effects in Sai- not much was there to be missed ;).

It always feels great when your friends approve of the things you do. Thanks as always, Grace!

Got nine faves so far on my page, and only twofrom people l know. =^_^=

Damn this looks wonderful, great work! :3