".... suddenly Erik realized as he was crashing down to the mats after losing his grip on the horizontal bar during a giant swing at the Olympics in front of millions of people, he had forgotten to put on his tights!"

Hahaha @ the drawing and Dave's comment.

thanks, I use layers, I don't find masking very useful unless you are using your brush with anti-alias turned off, it's always screwing up around edges. I use the round brush on full flow/opacity with the soft edge, the third one down to the left of the brush size selector thingy, and then use the same eraser to whittle down or define the shapes. This is a lot like using the pen tool, if you're familiar with shi-painter, but without the flow. Lascaux has a really useful 'preserve layer transparancy' thing that can be used a little like mask and will preserve the smooth edges, that's how I did the crane in the feather shape. I drew in the feather shape on a new layer in all one colour, then preserved transparancy, so I could draw the crane in without messing up the details on the edges of the feathers. The girl and background are on the bottom layer, the spine on the next, and then the feathers and crane on top.

I am in awe. Very different I love it. :O

Amazing style o.o I love the design...

but its not fair

Neither is posting beginner stuff on intermediate boards.

uh oh i have a drawing thats not finished and and its in the intermdite board i think

Aw Em xD that's cute

Adorable, nice style.

I second what Em said ;)

thanks!

I really like the outcome, but I wish there were some bits a tad sharper, more in focus if you know what I mean.

I know but I lost my patience..

Love how you handled the cold colors in this :D I envy the number on the timer, I need your speed.

the large light reflection in that one eye looks cool

I love the stripped down color palette. There's a dream-like feel to this

I think your drawing is better than the ref!

I love your drawings, but may I ask you to use nifftyToo to shorten links? And of course: welcome!!

This is cool..nice gallery you're building here..

Very nice style.. It screems shi painter ;)

I also agree that it's too much like pornography It's very accurate, but we would love to see beautiful males, their bodies, muscles, and beautiful poses, that would be great. Could you do that also? we would love to have some gorgeous, sexy and masculine looking poses, kind of like out of some superduper gay male magazine. that defunct "Playgirl" magazine. gorgeous men in wonderful poses, how about that? really encouraging you to do that. Playgirl and superduper guys, we'd love to see them! I'm not too old for it. Ha ha Haw.

It's preseminal fluid.. maybe I drew it too "thick";

Porn has very little value in terms of aesthetics. (eg. poor lighting-> no shading, no texture of the skin) Maybe is not very right to do it here. I drew it anyway because it has been bugging me for a long time. Maybe after I tried once, I will regret and never do it again; or I will simply feel how stupid I was as I have been bugged for such long time...

In future, please use a URL shortener to shorten ridiculously long links. Reason I'm asking this is because long links extend the comments too much.
Thanks :)

I tried to use niftyToo but it didn't work for me

It's an illusion, because of the shadow on the inner left of her eye.