Tri-Lit

Something I've been working on lately.

I'm really not happy with the dark one at all. My proportions are all off (nose too small, face is too thin in places) and it should be smaller and very slightly more bottom oriented so it offsets the looking up one; I believe I'll have to redo it because it's dang near impossible to erase that white pencil... I'm so used to being able to marquee and move things in Photoshop that I forget to give much thought over placement when doing traditional.

The other ones need some final rendering too, but I'm happier with those.
Used reference photos taken in the different lightings.

Ms. Leslie

This doesn't do my lovely girlfriend justice, but I'm still getting used to colored pencils...

Me Gusta

He's lovin it.

Oh Mushroom Mushroom (no snake)

Tried some straight up painting with the CS5 brushes, I'm getting there. No reference other than a quick look through google images so I could remember what a mushroom looked like exactly.

I also found a nice tip online: once you have the painting more or less how you want it, duplicate it, emboss the new layer one pixel high with maximum amount, desaturate, set to overlay. Makes the strokes look much more realistic.