Agh, I’ve spent hours on the hair last night. I can’t get the shading to reflect the direction of light, granted what I’ve done so far is incomplete. It might look a bit better once highlights are added…I can only hope. Anyone with advice, I would be happy to hear it lol!

Found the source of a very loud bang that we heard the other night – popping capacitors. We needed to borrow a SATA cable from the PC and when I booted up the PC it was throwing BIOS errors. Upon checking the hardware I found these on the video card *sobs*. Second video card that my PC has fried. Thankfully, I’ve managed to get the PC up and running with no video card installed as it’s my file server.

I have started the colouring process in Photoshop for this. I have since read some really good tutorials on different ways to colour manga though so I might redo this. Not sure yet.

Another work in progress, I’ve spent a few hours on this tonight. A lot more to go with the shading and detail, I want to add a cyborg type shoulder on her left, not sure if I’ll be able to pull it off but I’ll give it a go. Still learning a lot about Photoshop hence why my images are still at the n00b level.

Line art done in Manga Studio. I also need to work out how to smooth the lines further, they’re a bit rough in some areas. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this in Photoshop, please let me know!