Oh that is really great! It must have taken quite some time and effort! Or at least it seems so from the picture and your description. You should do some more like this.

I love their faces, the look on the older one and then the cute lil guy.

Thank you! Heh, it probably didn't take as much time as it sounds like. For some reason, the stuff that turns out good usually doesn't take that long (or maybe the time just passes by faster, I dunno!). What's a bit annoying is when I do spend forever and end up with a big stick figure :P

Thanks again, though! I'm hoping I can do more of this thing in the future!

Lol. That's like when I spent an hour on some picture testing a fur technique and came out with this..horrible thing that looked like a 3rd grader had scribbled it xp

Hmm maybe time went by faster..that happens with me!

They look very nice ^^ So the technique you use to color it is a digital one or 'hand-made'?

Thanks (again)!

It was done digitally. I don't even have a set of crayons :).

The technique is actually just a way to get a scanned image into a nice looking border that's easy to colour onto. Which is great because digitally inking stuff was the most tedious part for me before (trying to trace over an entire drawing with a mouse and individually tapering each of the lines is a pain). I'm all excited now since it'll be easier to try out new stuff in the future :P

uh-huh, I see :) Yeah, I think I know a 'little' about how to color a drawing with photoshop without tracing the original drawing digitally, using lots of layers and stuff. There are tutorials out there. You did a great job!

Hehe. Sorry about this, you remind me a little of my boss. He puts "quotes" around everything, and I always tease him by "writing" my e-mails "to" him like "this" where random "stuff" has all "these" quotes around "them." :P

Hehe, thanks again, though! The whole trick with the one I just learned is kinda nice and easy. You just take the original sketch, duplicate it to a new layer, then copy the entire thing and make a new channel where you paste the entire image. Then, you can go to a new layer, Load Selection... and choose the alpha layer you made, then just fill the selection with black. It kinda looks weird that way, though, so it looks a whole lot better if you duplicate the layer you just filled, then Gaussian blur it (3.0 or so) and switch it to Hard Light mode. And... I have no idea if any of that made sense, or anyone even cared, but anyway... *wanders off confusedly* ;)