Your colour schemes and shading leave me almost wordless Racheal (well, it would do if I didn't have more i wanted to say). An honestly fantastic picture. Great design and idea, really brings out the majestic idea of a Xenomorph emperor. Great. Just great.

Thanks very much! I really had to work to get this color scheme to smooth out. I actually did quite a bit of adjustment in Photoshop. The original colored pencil drawing is much more grayed out - I was within inches of just scrapping the thing and starting over when I realized that it's the 21st Century and Photoshop fixes *everything*. ^_~

whoa cool. this a cool alien picture. (2 thumbs up.)

Beautiful!!! Bow before his Kingliness!!!

Thanks! I'm glad you like this one. ^_^

I guess I should have said "Bow to his Imperial Majesty!"
It is an awesome pic, great color-scheme, and it's good to the see the other half of the relationship...

HOLY CRAP!!! this rox!!!!

O.o....wow thats amazeing!!!.....wow..i so want it!!...im jealous!!..omg favs..and fav artist!!

Awww, don't be jealous! ^_~

wow that's so detailed! cool add to fave^_^

By the way, what type of colored pencils did you use? The coloring is beautiful!

Thank you!

I use Prismacolor pencils to the exclusion of all else these days. I have some Faber Castells that I need to try out, but I'm rather addicted to the soft and squishy lead of Prismacolors, so it's been hard to change over. ^_~

lots of detail...must have taken a LOOOOONG time! O_O

It took about 30 hours in total, but I spread that out over several weeks. ^_^ Thanks!

WOW!!! This is very nice! Excellent work!!! *favs*

now THAT is badass!

Thank you. ^_^

Thats.... TOTALLY WICKED!

thats fucking awesome!

that is so cool it really looks cool

I've heard of a Alien King. Now I know that it's kick @$$! This is great and one of the best pictures of a Alien I've ever seen! Great Job.

Yeah, I think that one had been developed for the Aliens: Stronghold comic miniseries. We never heard any more of the king/emperor concept after that. The friend who had me do this particular piece, though, has had an emperor Alien in her head for quite some time, though, and so it was a pleasure to get the concept a bit of continued spotlight time. ^_^

Gorgeous pic, love it loads.

Thanks very much. ^_^

Wow... detailed. Great job :D

Thanks. Details are the stuff of life. Couldn't live without 'em. ^_^

i love  it, is so detailed and dawn perfectly. love the colours that you used
*favs*

Thanks very much. It's an odd color range for me to use, too. I ususally tend toward horribly bright and cheery colors. ^_~

my god that kiks @$$!

Thanks! ^_^

This is amazing. I love all the detail and dark colors used. Great job.

Thanks very much. I thrive on details the way my cacti thrive on me leaving them alone. ^_~

oh........my........God........ YOU ROCK!!!!!

LOL!

*rocks out with her bad self*

*faceplant*

...Forgot. I can't dance. ^_~

O.O wow... the colors... the shading... the tecnique... the awesomeness... beutiful... wow... *faves* XD

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LOL - Thanks. ^_^

that is so freaking awesome! *favs pic and artist*! dude it's so cool omg!!!!

Thanks very much! ^_^

How do you shade like that, I can't go from dark to light like that.D: Good job!

Spottedfur.

I managed the smooth gradations by using a lot of different layers of color (and in this case, a lot of different layers of grayscale, too). It's mostly a matter of smooshing the pencil lead around until it gets to the consistency I like, and then maybe tweaking it by adding a bit of white on the highlit side, or a bit of blue or dark green in the shadow areas. I'm also using really soft pencils, so it almost is like scuplting with very thin clay. ^_^

awesome

youre so good, i cant help myself but be amaze, youre really good,...youre so good, you probabaly know youre good, but i`ll say i once again...hay,so good.
just great...

LOL - Thank you. I know I have some mad-skills, but I also know that there's still a ton of stuff out there for me to learn. It keeps me humble. ^_~