-Painting walkthrough, part 1-

...Yeah, a long time coming, but hopefully it's worth the wait?

I forgot to mention in the tutorial that I use Photoshop CS2. That's the only program I've used extensively, so I don't know if all the information will apply to other programs.

I don't know how helpful this will be, but I gave it my best shot... feel free to tell me if anything seems off or confusing, or if any of my information seems wrong... XD

I don't really know what else to say that I haven't already said in the deviation itself, other than I put an enormous amount of time and effort into this, so I hope it shows.

Hit download for the full size.

Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]

(Textures from CGtextures)