OOOOO I am first! Very nice detail and color! Great job!!!!

pretty cool man! cool detail and shading..

awesome!

you are my hero!!! awesome work!!! truly amazing!

Man fantastic details, love the monster and his mosterous expression. Great image dude

Great detail, but above all, excellent lighting!!

Fantastic style, and also excellent work on the details, I'm impressed

Very cool, top score

Excellent, as always, great expressions... (especially the girl)
seems like a family photo !

+9

thats AWESOME! is this a comic you're making or just a single work for good fun?

Yeah, nice to see more good work from you, I like the detail and colours you have put in, really nice.

i like it
congrats
good characters.!

That's my boy, INDEED! Now we're talking! Again, I say, welcome back, you sneaky magician, keeping this up your sleaves.
Damn.
It's great!

m-m-m-mad(!) color skills dude!
Especially the details on the 'dragon'/'lizard' makes me
drewl all over the place

If you éver have any plans to make a tutorial about your colorskills,
I'll be the first one to try them

Oh, and BTW;
Great expressions as well!
Max points from lil' ol' me

Fantastic... great work.

awesome!

Very good work!

Ok, one of the best stuff I ve seen here lately. VERY COOL! Good job! Beautiful expressions and neat colours. Really well done

Dude!!! I love it! You arre now in my Fovourite Artists list.

The girl's expression and stance makes me laugh. Overall I love this picture - though it seems to be lacking, I keep thinking about maybe speech bubbles? I think it's because I liken this almost to the page of a comic. The shading is utterly amazing, keep it up!

Really nice one, I like the expressions.

I really like the soft colors in this one! +10

This is so cool it hurts!!!

Great job and kudos on a fertile imagination.

cheers for the comments, everyone. nothing helps me through the down-cycle of my manic depression like a complement or two

yo, Flabber: every morning i get up and thank god for photoshop, for without it i would be lost. getting the colours and details is just a matter of persistance...there's no actual talent involved, it's just a matter of changing things around until they look right. block big areas of colour in at the start and fiddle around with the colour/hue settings until they work together. after a while, you could try overlaying layers of transluscent colour over the top of your pic...it might help to unify them. i think. i'm making this up as i go along, so bare with me...

TJVerhagen, Phaeri: these are based on characters i've been messing around with for since i left college...occasionally i'll launch an efffort to make them into a comic strip or a picture book, but it always seems to fizzle out. i've got the ideas, it's just i lack the organisational skills to make them into a decent story...sigh. one day i'll crack it.

Artoonator: sneaky magician, eh? gives me an idea for a pic...

I'm speachless! Wonderful characters!
Great, great, great!

soft colors indeed, i'm going to sit and stare at this for awhile till i figure out how you got such great color work...

top marks +8

excellent as ever

I love your work.

Awesome.
lovely expressive tech.

Looks great, the colour especially. I'm not a cartoon person (I mean, a person who likes cartoons) but I can still see this is very professionally done. How you get that colour graduation in 'shop I've no idea - I used it for the first time last week and now, when I get up each morning, I thank god for Painter!
+8/10

painter = too many buttons! the few times i've attempted to use it i've been rapidly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of controls and had to run off and hide in the corner.

i tend to use just a simple round paintbrush in Photoshop, plus the airbrush and gradient tool for block colours and basic shading.

cheers for the comments everyone. next week: something a little different...

BRILIANT!!!
Fantastic work Man!!

awesome
i like characters are too nice.
and color and light effects are great.
+9/9

The details are just amazing

i like soft colors here and xpresion of charas

Wicked style! Fantastic.

Cartoony, still really good all the same

Neat! Very original

Great work as always. I love the colors on the big reptile-looking guy (who seems to be smoking...?). I can totally feel the cold, scaley body just from looking at those colors.

"guaranteed to keep you alive in any circumstance, or your money back!"

HAHAHA!

well, he's either smoking a cigar or the end of his fingers have caught fire. i have a similar problem when i draw too fast...

Aha u back with MAGIC one more great artwork from my fav. artist keep it up bro !
Thanx a tonne for the BIG image

THIS IS SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! NO, THIS IS GREAT!!!

Very neat! EXCELLENT DESIGN! Absolutely great! Like the colors u've used!

very good in deed!

excellent!!! +7

Greatly done and very expressive! Great concept!
10

wow efin-a, this thing rox +9/9

Fav artist! Your color schemes and the way you use light sources is so great! I love your art becasue it seems no one else pay as special attention to light the way you do!

This is just 2 cool! Fantastic style, love the lightened colour scheme, really good and interesting chracters, top work!