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Soo awesome!
As a noob, i would really love to know how you make the color so nuanced, with the great textures and shadows. What program do you use? And any special brush types? I would appreciate anything
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Thanks!
I use Photoshop CC right now, however, I think that particular piece I made in CS5 instead. If you can't get photoshop, I believe paint tool SAI, GIMP, and Paint.net are good alternatives. SAI isn't free but it is easier to get your hands on, GIMP I think is free, but I'm not sure, and Paint.net is definitely free but is more like a mix between MS Paint and Photoshop, so it's missing some functionaliy.
I just used the generic circle solid brushes, or sometimes the airbrushes. For the base color, I just eyedroppered it from a reference image, but the shading is all a dark blue with layer set to multiply.
As for the texture (which is all achieved by the way I did the shading) I cannot tell you exactly how I did it- I don't shade like that much and tend to forget how to do it. But I think I remember for this particular one. The shading layer is completely colored the same blue over the entire canvas, and I applied a mask to that. (If you do not know masking, I suggest this series of tutorials which I used to learn masking- ctrlpaint.com/videos/masking-1… In the mask, I set my brush to opacity pressure control and made the general opacity lower as I painted to make the shadows smooth like that. It's hard to describe that part, but playing around with masks may help it make more sense.
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Thank you very much for your time and tips. I have Photoshop C5. I guess i never really thought much about painting my drawings with it, even though it makes perfect sense lol. So i got Corel Painter X3. Which is good so far but i'm a little more into Photoshop so i'll just do some playing around with it then 
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I used Corel once, but I used it on a computer that couldn't really handle it XD
Photoshop is definitely a program you really just have to play around with to understand everything it does.
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It's already starting to look a bit better 
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Glad I could help you then!
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Whoa...
This looks amazing!
So much dark shadows to contrast with... just looking at this... I can't stop smiling
IT'S RAYQUAZA! HE IS AWESOME!!!
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hehe thanks!
One of my fave pokes, and I looove how the shading turned out!
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You should be very proud of this
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