Digital drawing - horse: mane tutorial

I wanted to show you how I draw digital horse manes. I use Photoshop CS5 and Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet. 1. new layer 2. draw thick outlines, fill them in 3. choose colours for shade and light 4. draw strand of hair in the first shade + light colour with a smaller brush (only a bit smaller than the one for the thick outlines.) do not simply draw dark and bright strands in each other, try to sketch dark and bright parts in the whole mane. 5. draw more strands with the second shade + light colour. Sometimes, you can add some dark strands to bright parts and the other way round. 6. use the burn-tool to create deep (Sometimes using the dodge-tool a bit at this point, can also be effective) ( 7. Add a new layer ) 8. Add very bright highlights to the bright parts, do not use this colour in every bright part of the mane (don't exaggerate!) 9. Add black - or better: almost black - strands to the darkest parts, to create even more contrast. Finish! I use a graphics tablet & photoshop Real time: ~ 30 minutes I always do it a bit different from time to time, but there are no fundamental differences. And of course the horse at the end IS NOT FINISHED! :D