I love your fur textures! Also, the way you use light and shadow.. It's like.. Almost like a three-dimensional effect. It's quite lovely! :)

Thank you! That was what I was going for- glad that it seems to have worked. : D

Also, to answer the question you asked in a shout- generally, I prefer working with digital media, mainly because it gives me more control and is easier to fix mistakes. I mess up quite often, and layers and the undo button are my friends when my hand slips or something doesn't look quite like I thought it would. It's not always so easy to recover from that sort of thing in traditional media. : ) Why oh why doesn't CTRL+Z work in the real world?