Looks awesome, and such a great resource. Thanks a bunch!

You're one of the very few i know who use MS, I use it as a substitute to SAI and it is marvelous.

Very nice work by the way :)

Thank you, I recently started using MS5 this year, mostly as a substitue for PS but I've found I like it better and I plan to be sticking with it for the foreseeable future!

same

Yep, as a traditionally trained illustrator, I struggled with finding a digital package that 'worked' for me.

I've used Photoshop for 20 years as a designer, but I hate it as an illustration program. Painter is good, but just too insanely complex for my liking.

I recently discovered Manga Studio 5, and instantly fell in love with it. It just 'felt right', right from the get-go. It took a little tweaking to find exactly the tools that suited me, and a tiny bit of customisation to get a pencil that is 'just right', but overall I just found it an intuitive fit.

I love it.

And it's a good price, too.

The only other program I want to try is Autodesk Sketchbook. I've seen some work done in it that I would have sworn had been painted in gouache.

Ahh I have Sketchbook pro, and I really love it, but's lacking in a few areas that just made it too time consuming for my own use. It's a nice program though.

Too time consuming? Yeah, that was my beef with Painter. Whereas MS I found to be really intuitive to just pick up and run with.

I should probably spend more time going into depth with the brushes, I suppose. Meh, some day. Maybe.

Yes, I spent a ton of time in clean up on every layer, just not worth it in the end. Loving MS5.

Very lovely ^^
I really need to look at masks.

I use masks all the time. They take a little bit of fiddling to set up, but, man, are they worth it.

I am very happy I learned to use them, they made all coloring and shading related things so much easier :D

this is super duper cute ^.^ that eye is a bit trippy though[/color]

Amazing work

amazing work indeed^^ ~ rly cute

thanks a lot for the tuto. and beautiful cute character ^^

Wow, thank you for the tutorials. I've been considering picking up MS5, but always been intimidated by it

Not as bad as it seems!

Sexy! Nice job.

So darn good. :3

Chiiii Yesss <33 Biggest crush. Haha~

I have a bit of a thing for hybrids

That awesome art work! =^w^=

Shes a gorgeous character ;w;

Daaaw

I was getting ready to ink my first half-decent drawing and had already discovered the fuzzy tool.
This guide has a few decent tidbits that I hadn't thought about - like filling in the body area with grey after inking to reserve the coloring area and then erasing the outsides (never thought that fuzzy would select outside of my lines, but it makes sense).
And then that you can lock the transparency of a layer so that you won't draw over it. I sure hope GIMP works that way!

This tutorial will certainly help fill in the blanks! It's a little gem and I intend to take full advantage of it! Mine, all mine~ -Laughs like Queen Chrysalis-