Guendolen wrote:For eyes, remember to color them in and then set it on "normal" to overlay white "shine" highlights. It amazes me how much more expressive eyes get when you add those.
Stellar is unique because of her eyes. It's the main point I try to describe when I can't show someone a picture of her. Remeber, Stellar isn't human, so she doesn't abide by normal rules. I actually love doing eyes, but I don't wanna do something to Stellar that doesn't exsist.
And thankies everyone ^_^ As for the background, I don't see that happening... I'm not too worried about the outline either, I could probly clean it up really easily if I felt like it... wich I don't =p
P-tan, I'm working on it, for some reason I'm not too happy with it. But if you're really ancy to see it I can scan what I have right now, just gimme a half hour or so to ink it.
Cleaning up the edges of a picture is also easy. In Photoshop proper, after you've saved it as a Photoshop file but before you start coloring, set it on "normal" (as I'm sure you know, "darken" is the best default setting for general coloration, as it doesn't cover up the black lines). From there, pick white, and just color over the speckles and fuzzy spots and whatever, and you have nice clean edges. Heck, you can even tweak images in-program that way. I've used it to slightly rearrange fingers or whatever, on the biggest setting. There's another thing- scan your image bigger than you want the finished result to be. I usually scan it about four times as big, and work at it on a view setting of 50%, saving the full-sized view for small highlighty type things, like eye shines and metallic effects and so forth. It's easy enough to size it down right before you save the final copy. I typically do my image clean-up in Paint, though, using the eraser tool; I scan it into there initially because my scanner defaults to bitmaps, and importing a bitmap directly into Photoshop for some reason offers you fewer options for what to save it as. Whereas in Paint, I can save it as a jpeg in the interim; for some reason, a converted jpeg file gives you the most options, in-program. Odd, but that's how it works for me. Sorry to babble at you like this. I just want you to be able to do as much with your art as possible. 
