my first photoshop rendering!

[rockatanski]

hey all, just wanted to share this - inspired by the work on here, figured id try to teach myself how to do these. semi-familiar with photoshop, from a photography perspective, but didnt even know about the pen tool till 4 days ago. still havent figured out the gradient tool, just made do with dodge and burn on this one...

not really any original design work, pretty much just straight copied a reference photo (though i did change the color), using this more for a learning exercise... no tablet either, stuck with just the mouse for now as well...



thanks fer lookin, and thanks for the tips & hints in the tutorials thread!