err umm.. that sword says a LOT about over compensating for his male inadequacies... hehehehe

great job author

Really nice one! I see in your sbs you paint in monotone before coloring. I never thought of doing it that way. Learning new things all the time.

My flight is delayed, so now I'm still in the airport... Thanks two of you for your comments. @Slush: Maybe his appearance is inspired by Prince Poppycock (in the natural way lol). @Chad: the way to start a painting is depended on what I like at that moment. But normally to paint something with 3D shape I use monotone, which can be easily achieved, to have the overall imagination about the subject, then I just paint the color following the grayscale with other tones. It's easy with the grayscale because only the brightness of the pixel decides which pixel it is (but with other tone, we have to care about the saturation and intensity at the same time). With grayscale, I just choose the color from black to white (in a straight column in the color panel), but with red color, for example, I have to choose on a curve from bright pink to dark brown. I used to be scared with color work because of that, it's difficult to achieve the natural color gradient, until I painted with Photoshop some months ago, it changed everything...

Looks amazing, really great job! Not so common to see a not so pretty faced hero but this is a surely strong one.

well done... Great stuff

Fantastic work author...face,sword and the background are great,but hair and the armor are simply amazing....well done

Great job . . . .

amazing work

Congrats buddy...great great great work...keep going man...

Congrats dear friend. . . .

Congrats! for another amazing work

congrats

congrats

Astounding as always...congrats, buddy!

Thanks everyone, I was on vacation so I can't check Pxleyes, sorry for the late reply