devilofthenight
That's really awesome. What do you use to get that affect?
hmnn.. first the background was done, what is visible is actually a peice of a larger background. that took a significant period of time and used a mix of various colors, air brush, color burn, and color dodge with layer mapping overlapping a white background.
the next project was more taxing, the actual pencil drawing, which when scanned, as is common, required some digital white out (i.e., an hour of "erasing") to get rid of pencil smudges.
following the digital white out, it created application of a special background eraser tool on a specific setting at 12%.
the next step, was naturally, to merge the two layers together, but befroe this could be done, a third white layer needed to be created to proplery transition and clean up the pencil sketch, for sizing etc. This is done by using highlight wand and then selecting the inverse, followed by applying it as the layer 1 (which makes two layers) to the background image.
The actual layer merger was also a bit tricky, using a hard light combined with a specific glow effect, of many. If done a slightly different way, the character can be made to overlap a hellish scene of bleeding skies, or twisted a bit differently, can be amde to look like Saito from Peacemaker. and a slightly different effect renders a "dream" from Vertigo comics.
this is a half & half drawing that i did for school ^ ^; 
