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K so I'm not in to large artwork on Photoshop but this recolor is nice but u should try 2 lower the out glow or try to blend it better because it stands out 2 much other then the glow nice recolor

Photoshop is just a tool, you still have to have basic skills and talent to make a good-looking image. A lot of the traditional artists that I know are horrible at digital media, they find it a lot easier to make a finished-looking image with paint and ink and pencils than using Photoshop. I really think that the digital vs traditional argument is really irrelevant x

I think Photoshop just need's as much practise as drawing with a pencil or shading.
There are so many techiniques you can use in Photoshop and many way's to colour and present work, so I don;t think it's easy,
I mean sure, everyone can do lineart and colour underneath it but it's just like pen and pencil.. you need to learn and practise different techniques and affects.

It's not about the medium. It's the Artist.
No medium is better than the other as it is all personal opinion. But saying just one medium is better isnt going the right way to experiment with new thing's when they pop up as you will soley straight away just keep to the Traditional stuff and not expreiment truely and see what Digital Art has to offer. When both come out with stunning results.

Photoshop does have all sorts of nifty tools, filters and adjustments that help with your art. These are all easy to use, but they're actually quite difficult to master.

Photoshop doesn't automatically make your art better, as evidenced by the huge amounts of artwork "improved" by dodge, burn or, god help us all, lens flare filters. In Photoshop you might design a brush tip that draws out entire locks of hair at once, toss on a layer mask and a clipping mask and you can design a head of hair in minutes. But unless you know how to work those tools properly and how a head of hair is supposed to be drawn, it won't even look like pasta.

I guess I'm just trying to reiterate what's been said before; Photoshop is a tool and a medium. It's just as difficult to learn and if you don't take the time to do that you might as well work in MSPaint for all the good it'll do.

Okay. You see this? It is a picture of a boy whore in a stained glass window with a green-white-brown colour scheme. I made it using the pen tool, a vector tool that exists somewhere in photoshop. To a newbie, it may seem like rocket science, but to an expert, it may seem like photoshop basics. And trust me, I do not actually know photoshop that well.

Whether or not this looks cool is up for debate (currently I'm working on a stained glass masterpiece), but let's just assume it looks cool for the sake of my example.

What I'm trying to say is that the coolness of your artwork is based not on WHAT you use to make it, but HOW you use whatever you used. You can use just about anything: photoshop, prismacolors, paints, pencils, highlighters, anything. As long as you use your medium of choice in a skilled and artistic manner, your artwork will be good.

And trust me, the pentool wasn't a piece of cake when I first tried it. It was weird and confusing. But as I slowly learned how to use it and gained skill, I managed to make stuff like this.

Only through long years of pentool practice was I able to make stuff like this, which is why your photoshop picture sucks. You need to learn how to use the dodge and burn tools, not abuse them!