RubidiumHawk

hmm, good question lol
no one's good at everything, that's why I'm trying to find a style I like and am comfortable with ( hence my trying out all kinds of different ways to shade/color ) there are tons of different ways to make a picture look interesting, some people shade using markers and then go over with colored pencils for the softer highlights, some people color with watercolor, some use watrecolor for the base and blending , then go over with markers , some don't color at all , just use shading ( works for manga ) and there's a couple of different ways to do that too, the most interesting, I find , is using just lines and dashes to shade within the outline ( you can see that in my latest pic ) but you just have to find something that works best for you,
 
I'm currently exploring new ways to shade in black and white ( for my manga ) but I've found some interesting cloring techniques too,

not really, creating art with the help of programms like photoshop takes skill aswell, so it still is a reflection of your talent , it's just that if you manage to make a picture worked entiery by hand look as good as something that's been photoshoped it shows that your definitely a cut above ( at least I find it so )
that's what I'm trying to work my way to, pretty crazy eh ? but you won't see me giving up anytime soon, and I'll still continue to work with photoshop aswell

hand based , I like to work on the computer but when I do that I just feal like it's not my art anymore , so I prefer working by hand

kk, I don't know how i'm gonna do it yet , I'm trying out all sort of new techniques... so we'll just wait and see xD

Just look up Samurai Pizza Cats under google or Yahoo cuse if i type in the homepage it goes right to it it won't let me copy it

i used to watch it in the 90's I just looked up fan sites and fan art nowadays

It's good but sadly it's not on anymore not since the last episode aired in 1996

-nods-, yep ^^ enjoying the fact that i can sleep in now , it still feals too short though xD , so how have you been ?

Have you ever seen or heard of Samurai Pizza Cats?

it's a funny anime from the 90's that was sort of cartoonish

Hey, thanks for the comment on my new Phoenix and Versias pic ^_^ That's ok about Hartinae. Whenever he's finished is fine by me...I can't wait to see your Vampire pic though!! I was thinking about doing a Halloween pic, but I don't think I will anymore...I wouldn't be able to submit it until the weekend thanks to the lack of a scanner here, and I've been kinda busy today lol. Been helping my sister with her Kitsune mask for school. Took me 4 hours to make the mold for the paper mache -_-' Hehehe, I also did a new Naruto pic last night and today. This time it's Iruka....I wanna submit it, but again I can't until the weekend. This comp doesn't have Jpeg quality options...ah well....I'll go check out your new pic now. See ya!! ^_^