Dark Knight... I need some help on shading

Here's my Dark Knight that I drew...

I just need some pointers on how to shade the armor properly.

And I need idea's for a background.

and I'll fix the blue line thing later.



icbm1987

armor is metal

and if you look at the shading of metal it doesn't really blend together.

thats all that i can say about the armor.

oh yea!

add some shine on the metal parts so it relly defines that it is metal

what do u mean bob masqurade?

and i have tips on shading metal but then manga and anime would set in... dont wanna do that

-shadow_bob

looks like I'm on my own as far as shading goes then...

how about a background? What should I do?

and Shadow... I used the ava that Muoteck (where the hell is he?) made for Bob that was patterned after Lord's ava... -2 rep points for me from the Big guy.

I don't really know how he feels about all this stuff. Then again... he's really our only active mod even though he has the most cause to be doing something else.

icbm1987

EDIT: here's some progress... I made a banner out of what I was done with...

i dont know what to say about the banner

but you got a good grasp on the metal shading part

Yea banner looks pretty good and all (background = difference clouds??) Just a hint the edge of the sword has a white lining proboly a good way to remove is recut the lining so its perfect or just do sum smudging! Yay i want to smudge!! Yay! Sumdge! Smudge! Smudge! :D

yeah... clouds... I love that filter.

Yeah... I see the white lining... I'll fix it after I get done coloring the whole knight. I just need to erase the white foreground.

and I hate smudging because my comp doesn't like to do it... that process runs very slow...

icbm1987