Okay, so I thought I might post up what I've done so far. I need a lot of help, that much I know.

1. So here's the first one: It's already been posted in the recruit thread but I might as well post again. (Not completely finished though)

Kabuto the Freak

2. Here's another one with Sasuke
(Removed all the previous versions)

Sasuke V4

3. Not sure what type of shading this is but it's not what I normally use. I did this while reading a tutorial by Ammaretti (Thanks for tut!). The best part is Itachi's face as it is the part I spent the most time on.

Itachi & Sasuke

BTW, I am NOT an Uchiha fanboy. I absolutely hate Sasuke (though Itachi is my third favourite Akatsuki). Uchihas are just better at posing for title covers than others.

4. Just a quick rush through a panel with Pein. I'm quite proud of the background, I think it's one of the best backgrounds I've done.

Fixed up now after Kunai's advice

Pein V2

5. At last! A cover without Sasuke! This was done with the same tut that I used for the Itachi & Sasuke cover. Same sort of background as well, except for the design and the texture that I used. So anyways, here it is.

Naruto

6. OH NO! Not another Uchiha! It's not Sasuke this time, or Itachi. It's freaking Madara.

Madara

Here's V2 of the Madara pic. No smudge/blur was used so I feel quite proud of it
V2

7: My first colour with a tablet, hope you like it!
Team Hebi

8.372 Double Spread
"God's Angel"

9. I needed a bit of a break from colouring Naruto. This is a page I coloured for Himitsu(Yu-Gi-Oh! Scanlation group). Not only is this my first time making my own textures but it's also the first time I did a thorough clean of an MQ. Also, I used Kunai's tree tut for the trees so thanks for the tut Kunai!
Yami Vs. Bakura

10. 380 Double spread:
Final Encounter

11. Page from 373, turned out fairly decent:
With Texture

Without Texture

12. Page from 379 (credits to naruto-1969- for the clean. Awesome work!)
379 pg 6

13. Latest: 6 paths of Pain
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/crab2/Pein6.jpg

This post was last modified: 10-11-2008 09:30 PM by ShadowScythe.

What program are you using to color these pictures? Some parts of sasuke's skin in the pic look a little box-ish because of the sharp, straight edged shading. If you're using photoshop then try using the smudge too just so soften them up and give them natural curves. c'est tout.

I use Photoshop CS2. I'm not really sure (I'm a noob) but I think the style I'm trying to use is cellshading. I looked at some of the Zarosaki chapters with this style and try to emulate them. Those ones have fairly straight edges so I tried to use that in my Sasuke pic (my original one was really bad and involved me using the 'blur' tool a lot)

Anyways, ignoring my random paragraph, thanks for the advice, I'll try to smudge those edges as soon as I can.

How about no smudge and no blur :O

I'm pretty sure the (current) Sasuke pic has no smudge or blur used in it. The Kabuto one has a fair amount here and there (personally I think it looks better but that's just me). So anyways, to see my no smudge and no blur pic, look at the Sasuke one.

There's blur and there's shitloads of horrible textures/filters/stufff <3

*Looks intently at Sasuke pic*

Yeah you're right there is blur in various places, I didn't notice that before and I have a crap memory when it comes to whether or not I use the blur tool.

In terms of the textures, I tried them because when I used the gradient tool for the sword it looked really bad so I tried mucking around with stuff I hadn't used before. So, are you saying I should use the usual colouring (no textures/filters/gradients) for that as well. I'll start work on it tomorrow. BTW, should I do the same for the Kabuto pic or is that one okay (Which I'm starting to doubt it is)?

EDIT: So this is what I have so far. I don't really like it. It feels too....simple. I'm having serious problems with the sword, lower part of the robes (the blue bit) and the snake.

Sasuke V3

This post was last modified: 08-17-2007 08:37 PM by ShadowScythe.

uhhh...okay lets see if we can offer some help here...umm First thing about the sword, yur gonna have to learn to do metal, so either find a metal tutorial or look at how other persons have done metal colorings (tip: its the high contrast between the 'shiny' and the dark metal that brings out a metalish look in an object)

The hair is okay, try adding a little highlight to it though, its kind of plain. Same goes for the snake, the eyes were well done but why leave the snake skin so plain? Try following along the lines with a darker color like u did above the eyes to form 'grooves', and perhaps some highlights in between.

Btw what are you using to do all this? A mouse? I'd really suggest a Graphics Tablet, however decent work is attainable with a touch pad as well. Good luck, looking forward to seeing version 4 soon.

Thanks for your advice Kunai. The snake was plain before because I didn't know what to do with it so I posted the pic without really working on the snake to get some advice on what to do. I couldn't really find any good metal tutorials except for some that explained how to do forehead protectors (but not swords) I'm still struggling on it.

Btw, yes I am using a mouse (I can't afford a tablet, photoshop was hard enough to get a hold of) but my laptop does have a touchpad (which I find quite hard to use as I'm unco). Oh and a link to V4 is in the first post I did.

nicely done shadow but sadly i am an admirer of the colouring not a maker D: im waiting to buy PS3 and i wish to join you all