very nice work and origin.
well pencil stroke.
good balancing i would say but only some minor like the character size is some offset from another at scale.

wish to see it in complete color.
well done.

Due to somehow sloww internet connection.. the example picture all loaded halfway.. very frustrated. Also cause my search for flower pattern brush end up failure. I'll try again later. Tq for pointing out the links~ 
Tq. But even the latest Painter X does not support Dual Core processor yet, so I guess Photoshop is much faster than Painter. I can do my art in PS, open up to 25 tabs of webpage in firefox, Antivirus (Avira) scan, plus mp3 and apache webserver. still ok exept when painting the mp3 will somehow stuck2 a bit. haha.

becoz fedup  with internet connection, I halted the kimono patterns work and try planning up the background for her.
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Added on October 19, 2008, 4:40 pmbackground and lighting tweak finished.. now left is the kimono flower .. will add as i hav free time...

@aizen - good work. but if if its me, I'll do all the details on the paper first then scan so that the pc will only be used for coloring process. its very good though you did that with only a mouse.

Okay slumberus.. ive fixed the lighting problems and also some gaps here and there. Also fix incorrect hue for the grass. Tq for ur comments and critique. It does improve me alot, although its not really good yet. 
Btw do u guys know where i can find info about art educations? I really like to know more about how lighting, gravity and stuffs work. Or maybe a good book u guys would like to recommend?

slumberus,
Ah took me some time to notice this but it's a city in the sky isn't it? Nice work ya have there. Probably still need some cleaning up.

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