Hyzenthlay
 

[img]http://webpages.charter.net/jazzjackrabbit/Hyzenthlay.png[/img]

Hyzenthlay from Watership Down.

Drawn, scanned, dropped into a different scene. My first digital color job. I'm learning tons about Photoshop. It can do anything it seems. o.o

Background from Escape to Watership Down (TV).

Nice pic. :)

The pink fur looks a bit weird though. You should thin it out a bit and make it white. :P

And what if Hyzenthlay HAD got pink fur?

mmm, yes... the fur did come out a little too pink didn't it....

eh... I'll probably release a v1.1 patch for this one.... :)

Good job on the background.

Heh. Kidding. It's good. As I said. Whee.

It's a good start, but your shading needs a light source. By that I mean you should know what direction the light is coming from and place the shadows accordingly. Like (old example I made godknowshowlongago):
[img]http://www.foxmage.com/Lightrays.gif[/img]

Yes, I was hoping no one would notice that...

I tried to get Photoshop to cast a shadow... but since the rabbit was on it's own layer Photoshop would not cast a shadow over the the background layer... I tried serveral different ways... and finally I just settled for what you see there... I also couldn't tell where the lightsource was in the background... it seemed to be coming from the upper left... but I wasn't sure...

eh, but I still like how it came out... despite the shadow and pink issues..

btw, when I was first looking at your "Lightrays.gif" I was wondering why you were showing me a picture of male genitalia... lol

Photoshop is a smart little program, but some things you've just got to do manually. Default shadow functions are great for buttons and logos, but if you want to realistically shade or draw a shadow for something complex like a character, you need to make a shading layer/darkening brush of some sort and draw the lighting related things yourself.