Sick pic man, I love the rich colors and the composure is great. The fread(sp?) ends, folds, tears, shadows and wind effects are perfect. Also love the fading of the cloth. I can't imagine how long this must of taken but I'm sure it took quite a while. My goal is to be able to color like you do in PS. Getting those shades and mixing those colors so perfectly is just awsome. I'm still trying to learn how to do that in PS. For some reason I always end up with regular colors, and usually can see the edges of my shading... if it were pencil and paper it would be easy for me... but then that would defeate the purpose of my trying this lol

Great Job, I can see why people higher you ^^

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I sit here pondering weather my loneliness will ever betray me. My wounds etch deeper into my skin. My sorrowful crystal lake is blood-stained. I look into a mirror showing my past; nothing but razor blades. Another blood drop trickles down into the lake

As regard the fading off, well hopefully your using PS7 or later, (I use 7). All you need to do is change your brush settings. Click on Window>Brushes and change the settings. You can soften the edges of the Brush using the Harness Slider, and mess around with the Dynamics. Make the brush Pressure sesitive by clicking on Other Dynamics and set the Opacity Jitter to Pen Pressure. Then try pressing on the tablet softly and harder to get more or less solid colour.

There's all sorts of brushes and settings in there, and you can also create your own Custom Brushes as well.

As for getting the colours, a good way to learn would be to find photo's of images with the colours you want in them on the Web, open them in Photoshop and use the Eye Dropper to select the colours.
One hint, when on the Eye Droppe tool, set the drop down menu at the top to 3 by 3 or 5 by 5 to get average colours so you dont select discoloured noise pixels.

I would hazard a guess that the image took me a severel days to do.

Sweet, small tips like that is exactly what im looking for. Thanks a ton. I honestly never thoguht about doing that I always tried to make all my custom colors which is very difficult. I do have PS 7 so this should work great I'm in the process of drawing a picture now, I want to scan it, and put it in PS then I'll go back and shade it in pencil(my choice of medium) and post that. Then I will take some time to experiment with PS coloring. Might take a while before I get the look I want but it will eventually get there. I am going to have a bit of a time laps though here soon. I leave for boot camp on July 20th and then off to Buds training for 8 months. Durring which time I doubt I will be able to do anything computer related in PS, but once I am done I will pick it back up. Of corse I will always draw durring that time.

Any helpful websites that may have good tutorials or tips such as yours? Also how do you prefer to clean up your lines in PS? I read a tutorial to do it 2 ways, the pen tool or manually masking off all the lines with the laso tool. Thanks again for the help.

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I sit here pondering weather my loneliness will ever betray me. My wounds etch deeper into my skin. My sorrowful crystal lake is blood-stained. I look into a mirror showing my past; nothing but razor blades. Another blood drop trickles down into the lake

dude that is awesom i love the whole idea and the fallowthrough of it. i gotta get PS and try to do tsome of that stuff seeing as just almost the only way to have a job anymore with art is with PS n stuff

impressive, very impressive

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My Love : ~DisturbedGhost
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And if you never existed
Tell me why I would have ever existed
To live in a world without you
Without hope and without regret...

fantastic work. Death itself would be impressed. Great work.

Scanning in and cleaning up Pencils?

Well, I scan in a sketch in greyscale, not colour. Although you can always change the sketch to Greyscale with the Hue/Saturation tool. (Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation, or Ctrl+U and move the Saturation slider to the far left.)
Then, to make the background white and get the lines how I want them, I do Levels (Image>Adjustments>Levels or Ctrl+L) and on the main Histogram sliders (3 sliders under a black wavey thing) I move the right hand slider in slightly, which makes the light grey of the paper go pure white, then I mess around the the other siders, making small moves with them to make the lines how I like the line drawing to be.
If I want to clean up the lines then I will zoom into the image and using a white brush I carefully remove anything the levels treatment missed.

Hope that helps.

Awsome, Once last question about lines. Do you go over your lines at all in PS? Suchas making them black with the pen tool or lasso? I know quite a few people do this to enhance the areas of thier drawings and make thik or thin lines, however, those pictures are no where near what you do.

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I sit here pondering weather my loneliness will ever betray me. My wounds etch deeper into my skin. My sorrowful crystal lake is blood-stained. I look into a mirror showing my past; nothing but razor blades. Another blood drop trickles down into the lake

No, generally I lighten them up until I can only just see them, and then begin painting in colours as I dont want to have lines in the image.