Beautiful!

*hasn't been checking her deviation watch thingers in awhile under her messages, as had collected waay to many in the time she was not using Dev* *forgot you had DA too until you commented**headdesk**so came to check you gallery*

Anyway; beautiful piece! I like how you do things with proper backgrounds.. I can rarely ever be arsed to do real backgrounds, and respect those who have the patience to do so. xD The detail of all the leaves and all the spots on the Sphinx must've taken forever to do. o_o

I admittedly kind of cheated on the leaves. I used a scattered photoshop brush of leaves, and then just touched them up to make it look less obvious that I used a photoshop brush

Ahh. Well, hey, fooled me. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you get it to fit in with the rest of your piece.. then kudos to you on sving time doing so. :3 I remember I used to always be so mystified by the *perfect* individual blades of glass that would always be in the backgrounds of some of my favourite artists's work.. and then I learned it was just a Photoshop brush; it was a major relevation. xD I'm not good at picking up on things like that, especially since the version of Photoshop that seems keen to work on my computer (6.0) doesn't have some many fancy things included, at least, not to my knowledge. x3

I totally used to do grass and such things the hard way. And I was totally dreading doing that part on a particular pieceThen a friend of mine was all "Y'know, the version of PhotoShop you're using has a brush that'll make that a lot easier." It was an exciting moment

I have no idea if other versions of photoshop have a scattered brush option.