Ashes to Ashes

EDIT as of Feb/2010
This is one of my first Deviations I made when I was 15


-Drawn by sly-stalker, digitally painted by JTaz- This a sketch artwork by sly, and because it's a sketch artwork, I didn't want to actually paint it. what do you call painting but kind of sketching as well? I have no idea so I will call it a sketch paint lol. First I tried actually painting it, like I have done with the other digital paintings I have in my gallery, but his sketch came out too cartoonish looking. And because he drew it as a sketch, I didn't want to change it entirely by making it look so japanese animation. So I painted all of the areas, but I did not paint it in details as I did for the other artwork. After I did a little bit of coloring, I used photoshop artistic tools such as cutout, dark strokes, and fresco to make it look like an actual painting. I hope it looks good, and critiques are welcome. By the way this is one of my fave artworks.. Not because he looks like Ichigo from bleach, but because it looks real, like a real painting..

original picture ---> [link]