Awsome! O_O

To find out who the other person in the room is and what their story is, you'll have to read "First Light" in Anthrolations this summer .... muahahahaha!!

(Sorry, I'm not the writer so I don't want to give his story away.) :)

That's why I +FAVed it in the first place, Cooner! I knew it was a multi-talented piece. ROWR.

Holy ..

And here I am with my 3 layer average: 1 for sketching, 1 for inking, then I empty the sketch layer and use that for the coloring... LOL Sometimes another layer for some added shadows..

I feel so inferior :p

But that makes you the professional I supose. I just need to practice to be this awesome.

Heh heh, it all depends on what I'm doing. When I'm noodling around in Painter or ArtRage or doing a sketch for a friend or something, often I'll only have two or three layers ... one for sketching and one for coloring, as you said.

This particular piece was a pretty involved one I wanted to do, and it's for publication, so I took a lot of time on the lighting and shadowing and toning and such. Keeping things on multiple layers is really just a big help when you want to go back and make changes or corrections or additions to something without undoing or obliterating a lot of previously-done work.

Well, it was worth it, I believe it's your best piece ever. It's absolutly gorgeous!

Wow, that is fascinating. It's very interesting to find out just what went into the creation of pictures like this. Thanks. :)

Jebus! X_x
I usually only use a mere two layers if I actually color anything.. .oo;;

This is amazing! The amount of time that goes into drawing one of these must be incredible.

Adored. ^.^

Wow. How do you even keep track of all of that?

Wow. How do you even keep track of all of that?

Definitely gives me more thought on how to try and approach photoshop coloring. I already liked the piece before hand and seeing what went into it definitely is nice to see for reference.

Definitely gives me more thought on how to try and approach photoshop coloring. I already liked the piece before hand and seeing what went into it definitely is nice to see for reference.

thats a damn neat tutorial!
and indeed you sure use a lot of layers o_O

That's actually seems alittle too complicated for my tastes XP *goes back and makes a pic with 40 layers* Hehe, nice ^^.

Only 15 layers? Wow, I seem to average between 25-50, some pieces taking me up to 125, depending on how modular the design is. Very cool, thanks for showing us the breakdown.

I would never have the patience to do something like this, even if I could draw somewhat decently. Extra kudos to you for doing this!

Wow! I'm gonna have to spend a lot of time studing this piece, I'm sure I could learn a lot from this and I really need to learn more about colouring so I can improve.

That must've taken AGES to do... Nice job :p

Wow, I wish I could get PS CS2 down this well.

Wow!

That's a lot of work. It looks beautiful though.

That is great...I love how you did it!

He is beautiful and so is the image, but why does one who is so gorgeous look so sad? Well done!

-Balto Wolf

Thanks very much for providing a "look behind the curtain", Cooner. There's a host of artistic lessons in this piece.

Much appreciated. :)

wow coolnesses
>HUGS<