Bit of an explanation behind this one. Please read as it is quite important.

I've mentioned on other people's artwork quite often that I wish I knew how to use Photoshop better when I see them dish out masterpieces on said program. I've had CS2 for years but never quite got the hang of it. I never really played with it enough for that matter. And I often mentioned that tutorials make no sense to me, which truthfully they don't. I guess they just weren't explained too well, or at least broken down enough so that I could follow each step.

That is until came to my rescue and provided me with a tutorial that I could follow with no trouble whatsoever. It's thanks to him I have some confidence in using this convoluted program. Really, he explained everything so well that I can't begin to thank him enough. Arigatou Matsu-kun! I appreciate your assistance on this greatly. He gave me plenty of help on shading, highlighting and the like here. It was my first time, so I know it's not really apparent here.

This was an original black and white pic of Ryuu-kun did back in September of 2007 (which is also why he's still called Dragon-kun in the title) during an OC we had together. I sliced it up and saved the image of Ryuu-kun he drew. He said he was going for a Digimon-ish look when he was doing it (that probably explains the leg plate thing down there). Hope you see this too, Draco. ^_^

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