Commission for the MAIN man

My god...it seems like this took forever. I had to play a couple of sonic games to get some inspiration back I was also reading some painting methods from Digital Character Painting and Illustration which was very helpful. I added some textures (and I would've loved to create a variety of them). What I love most of all in this pic, is how the lens flare turned out and influenced the scene as well as Nack. It's just how I imagined it

Anyways, Nack with a commando suit, hehe, I thought that was pretty interesting Yeesh, I realized that there was some distortion problems, but I've redrawn this so many times that I just had to correct my existing one. I started this out in inks originally, but I lacked the skills to pull off a REALLY good ink/paint version...(which is something I've got to learn if I want to get into that anime-painterly style.

There's a couple of stuff I would've liked to do, but was beyond my skills, like applying different kinds of textures for more realism like professional artists do in the CGtalk forums...aah ghad, they do it in like minutes and it looks freakin awesome o.o Hopefully I'll get to that. Damn, I've got to paint natural scenery or somethin.

"The hedgehog's favorite meal before his execution...its all so painfully beautiful." -Nack