I worked my ass off on this picture, so I hope you like it. (Even though I don't! ) There are so many things wrong with the background - I don't like the ground at all. I searched high and low for dirt tutorials and I used references but it still ended up looking like poo. Stupid dirt. Anyway, it's been charred and burned, so that's why it looks like that. The foreground forest - it isn't too bad, but I would of far rather had it look more realistic and less like a freaking medieval tapestry like it does. The far mountains aren't TOO crappy, but I still hate them.

The sky? I used no tutorials on it, just a ref and it turned out freaking awesome and looks a lot like the reference picture! Huzzah! (Unfortunately I don't know who took the pic, I found it on google so whoever you are - THANKS!!!! )

Eqaetz's fur caused me a fair bit of annoyance, trying to figure out how to do dapples. It took me a DAY to dapple him. A DAY! In the end my realistic look didn't look good enough so I went for a more cartoonish look. I used two different types of shading and highlighting on this entire piece. If you noticed with Eqaetz I had a bit of fun with perspective when I was drawing him. I did his entire body without a tutorial, though huge, absolutely massive amounts of credit are due to for inspiring me to do the bg digital in the first place and for doing her brilliant eye tutorial which taught me the technique for this.

For Eqaetz's hair and hooves I made up my own technique, which worked fine so I was happy. I love him! I also used that technique on Ki's hair, which for the very first time in the history of me drawing drakoon - looks almost right. Almost! But I'm proud of it. I'm really happy with Ki in general, though I think his sword arm is a tad funky.

The sword was freaking annoying. Have you ever tried to draw a straight line on photoshop? Nigh impossible. Dumb program. For the metal I kind of glanced at a metal tutorial and then, since I already knew before basically what to do, I went at it.

Thanks to all you guys who provided support and for especially for providing critique whenever she was on. Thank you!

This took me two weeks. I'm gonna avoid PS for a few days.

Made with: a pencil, lined paper, a scanner, a computer, a mouse and Photoshop 7.0.

Traditional BG Version: [link]
Wallpaper: [link]

Official Disclaimer: All characters, places, species and ideas belong to me, R. Brost a.k.a. Falcolf!