Just An Old Fashioned Cowboy

Whew!

What a fun one this one was. I've been working on cleaning up that image of Spike for the past few days, and when I finally get close to finishing, I ended up not even having to spend so much time coloring it in the end!

A somewhat simple wall, but behind the scenes this took me a long, long time to finish. The brick wall in the background was done using a whole series of filters. I learned how to do it from a professor of mine a good few months ago, very knowledgeable man and a good friend of mine today. It's a bit complicated to make, and if you don't follow the first steps to the letter, it ends up looking distorted and odd. It's basically the use of a huge amount of filters as well as use of various warp tools to make it look like actual bricks. Came out looking rather nice I'd say!

Please feel free to post comments or suggestions, thanks!

Original scan credit goes to http://nat.animepaper.net/

Enjoy all!