nice work. I'm seeing that green glow in so many pics lately. I dunno if its some sort of fad or an unintentional thing. regardless i wanna do a pic with the green glow lol. I really need to learn how to actually paint it descent though, im not really sure what technique to use so as not to impliment it all crappy like. What did you do exactly?

I haven't used green in many of my pictures, so it was a nice change of pace.

For this one? I did the following to make the shading effects.

1. Put a purple gradient layer at like 30% opacity over the characters' base colors. The darkest part of the gradient is supposed to be where the darkest shadows are.

2. Make a new layer and set it to 25-30% opacity. Using the same shade of purple and a hard, round brush I blocked in the biggest shadow areas.

3. Erase the shadow edges that are further away from the light with a big fuzzy brush.

4. Repeat 3 with a new layer, but use a gray/ purple instead of a pure purple.

5. Make another new layer and this time leave the opacity at 100%. Using photoshop's only paintery brush (I don't have ps on this computer, so I can't tell you the name off the top of my head), I gently scribbled in the lightest of areas + the pure green.

This image was fast, so the shading isn't exactly accurate. For more complicated pieces, I suggest stopping and looking around yourself to see how shadows grow softer the further away from the light source they are.

Hopefully that helps. :)

oh thank you very much for the tip! So you paint in your shadows and then erase the edges with a fuzzy brush? thats a great idea, I will definetely have to try that.

as for your shading, I think its spot on!