ei8ht b8ll - thanks I've just started concentrating on bringing up the contrast in the underlying skin/muscle areas and then I'll probably draw the scale layer over the top.

jramauri - cheers its just a variant on the great eye tutorial doing the rounds here (I'd forgotten how simple some techniques in photoshop were!)

Fallenswordsman - cool, I was hoping it still had that 'cutesy' factor

Still looking forward to doing a shiny metallic texture version but I'm still accumulating reference material. If anyone sees any simple chromed metallic pictures that may be useful ref then post me a link please :bow: