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Huge file is huge. Sorry!I finally got around to posting the process to [link]
You know how it is when you do something and it takes forever and you think it's amazing and the best thing you've ever done, and then a month or so later you look at it and pick out all the problems and hate it with every ounce of loathing in your body? That's how I feel about that painting. It has failed to live up to itself in posterity. It's the last big thing I did on my old computer and on my macbook it looks like ATTACK OF THE 80s and yikes. I want it gone from my life.
Painted in Photoshop 7 (best incarnation of PS ever) with a 4x6 Wacom Intuos 3 tablet
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wow that was great. It was one of my favorites and I always wonder how you do it. So now I know.
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Wow, wow, wow great tuturial!
I've always wondered about getting the values of a painting down in black and white before actually putting in the colour. Do you do that for all your paintings?
Thanks for this!
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Yes, most of them, though with some I start out with a really clear idea of the colors I want, and skip the step.
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Oh wow! 
And it's so fascinating to see your process to everything. So simple, and still so complex! Very amazing.
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It's not at all complex, I'm like a caveman with a stylus, I just roar and tear my hair and beat at the tablet for hours and hours. This process makes me look way saner than I actually am. Nick says I get a "art look" where my eyes narrow and I bob my head back and forth like some kind of crazy hobo who's gone too long without a pick-me-up
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ROFL. I do that same thing! I squint my eyes, and my head darts around to get different perspectives on the laptop screen. Probably why I have back problems. X]
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Oh god my posture is horrible, I'm like Quasimodo
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Haha, ditto. 8D I try to sit up straight when I'm not drawing, but I phail. C:
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I like your process! I'm bad and never do value thumbnails...>_> I will, though.
rocks, man. How do you paint so many rocks? I cringe at the thought of painting rocks.
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I paint a lot of big fuzzy blobs...and then...slowly make them...better?
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hahaha XD i tease, i tease. For some reason I can't stand trying to make rocks have rocky textures, but you've cleverly circumvented that.
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I must be the only person ever who really likes the messy edge on paintings like that. :\
Though, I am a tard, I never thought about doing that digitally
anyway, this was a really nice tutorial, good insight into your work process. I just need to keep working at my painting skills... cuz a lot of this isn't stuff i'm unfamiliar with... but at the same time I can never achieve the look.
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I like it on non-digital paintings, it looks cool
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hmm, maybe it's the shrunken down part that makes it look cool to me then. I'm still gonna try it sometime here, and see if i like the effect myself. Then again... I don't do much for backgrounds, I just need to do backgrounds.
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Definitely start doing backgrounds, they're oodles of fun, more fun for me than characters now
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Oh, I love the art and the tutorial! Just one question, how many layers did you end up with? And would you like to share some brushes? ;D
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I generally paint on just one layer 
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