Okay, I just needed to share this somewhere and here seemed like a good as place as any (plus it's been really quiet lately).

I found a drawing toy! It's called harmony and you can find it: here. It shades itself using nearby points ( Read more... )

Hello!

I did a quick basic tutorial about painting, click here to see it (link targets to DeviantArt)

Also here are the steps of work, glued together into a GIF: [click!]

And this is the finished painting, on which the tutorial was based (click to see the full image):

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Sparth does concept and character design for games, most notably 'Prince of Persia 2', and lots of book covers.

Link to process galleries: http://www.sparth.com/gallery/index.php?cat=6

The rest of his galleries are rather hard to navigate, but it's worth the clicking.

Found a marvellous tutorial for Photoshop on how to make a realistic starfield:
Make a Realistic Star Field

It was written for PhoSho, but the functions used were quite basic and if you know your non-Phosho image editor reasonably well you shouldn't have trouble translating over.

( my attempt - not quite Hubble-perfect, but it's quite convincing nonetheless! )