shit scan ;_;

Ooooh this is so pretty! I love the little bird!

thank you very much <3

OOoo! How beautiful :D Thank you =^-^=!

Is that a rainbow lorikeet? What a beautiful bird :3

I'm still trying to figure on how to do lighting myself, but:

You can start by figuring out where the light is going to be coming from (I need to do this more)

Here is a link to secondary light sources that  chrisgoodwin shared:
http://kalaalog.com/2008/05/08/seco.....your-artworks/

I like to find similar images to what I'm trying to do, to see where the shadows are falling on the human form(I googled, releasing bird):

If the light was coming from (above) this image would work for shading reference:
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/20.....207362A3F24453

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399.....a321ec.jpg?v=0

For her form, I googled: Woman Kneeling Swimsuit:
http://s3.images.com/huge.67.335401.JPG

You can experiment on a separate page, getting the colors the way you want ( I do this all the time, so I can see how adding a darker color, or one out of the hue range will look, before applying it on the original coloring)


For highlights I usually use white pencil, or a color in the hue range closest to white.
you can blend it in, by adding a little color on top of that, if it looks /too/ white.


Hopefully this helps some :3

ur welcome, im glad you like it, it was fun to do <3

thank you so much! its a huge help, esspecially those links, cant wait to go git playing with my pencils now lol