I started this one as a black&white sketch but somehow I found it really dificult to add color later on since I messed up my layers. Man, do I love that paletknife-brush, especially with an art pen. If only Wacom would update some decent drivers for it: it was really buggy in CS4 so I switched back to CS3 which improved things considerably, not to mention much less brush lag. No rotate canvas on my touchring though.
This is the B/W sketch:

More experiments with brushes in Photoshop, with the brush-images made in Painter. I realise this image came out a bit like a much cooler one done by Sparth who I'm a big fan of. I'm really starting to dig this painting digitally , again (first time was from 9 to 5 years ago).

This is not something I ever thought I would be doing ever again, painting digitally that is. But my tablet, an Intuos (yes,no number, an Intuos 1, 10 years old) fell and didn't do much of anything anymore afterwards. Now I still used it for things like adjusting the photo's I took from my paintings and stuff so I bought a new one,yes,a nr. 4 large. And once I got started watching Vyle's dvd I got really excited and bought an art pen too, to get that bit closer to having a flat brush I can rotate. The pic up here is one of the first attempts and though I never finished it I still like it. The one below here was less fun,took too long to finish it and should've left it alone much sooner than I did. Ah well, live and learn I guess.