oh the only critique i can make is that it has no link below

ah nuts sorry about that. I will change the notes...

This rocks... the thumbnail on white however is another story. I gets lost and doesn't jump out. I just freakin' love the new works your doing. You are quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Btw, did you ever get that "Gwen Stacy" portrait/pic finished? Dying to see it done.

Very Interesting, I loved the tutorial!! Thanks

please forgive my queston, but im new to this whole digi art "thing"...i saw your link and the tut. is nice...but what media did you use for the rough start...marker?, Chalk...? i've tride what i could with Painter but i jus' can not get the same texture?!?!?!?!?

great coloring and lightning francis.

huronblakhart: looks like all photoshop

nerfherder - thanks; the thumbnail was made with the background layer turned off accidentally. Maybe I will go back and fix that. The Spider-man and Gwen Stacy image is still percolating. Too many problems with that one, I may have to start over on it.

Sally - thank you I'm glad you found that useful.

huronblackhart - like Martin said, it is all Photoshop. It's funny because I love how Painter looks, but can't get past the interface. I've been experimenting with ways to get similar texture effects in Painter. It's possible, but Painter is better at what Painter does...

pwyll - thanks man!

Martin - yup!

thanks for the comments!

wow ... cool one ! thanks for sharing the stepbystep tutorial - very good one

what a creation....!

GREAT work again - You handle the lighting very well indeed.

Excellent stuff. I am really beginning to love this sort of painting/style. =]

Great, with an interesting tutorial too (and thank heaven for someone who knows how to compress their tutorial images properly! - from someone on a s-l-o-o-o-o-w dial up!)

I'm not a fan of straight character studies because I normally like to see a background and some context, but for some reason this one really works. It's possibly the dynamism of the character's stance and the absence of too many "fiddly bits"... and the fact he has one giant arm - I love characters with one arm bigger than the other !!

Great, Francis.

I love character sketches, and your tutorial was quite helpful. Thanks, and great job!

great character, I think the hat could have worked.. +6, you get extra point from me cause of the great tutorial that came with it. Great work and much appreciated.

the lighting is really great and add much depth to the character. I also love asymetrical bodies

Ooh..! cool, really cool wicked design. me likes. +9

Great work!!!

thanks everyone for the additional comments and support, very encouraging!

Great pic, other than it's hard to tell whether the background is shadows or some sort of odd fog, it's a perfect piece of artwork.

Very nice work francis, and the step-by-step thing was also great, gives alot of advices(im new to photoshop drawing though) but really nice done.

WOW tripy lol very cool nice character