well i didn't get much of a chance to really get into it cause i was looking for custom brushes and couldn't really find any =\

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and well i did the smoky look with like some earth like brush and then i had 2 layers of black and a little gray =] then i just did 2 diffrent brushes i did the earthy one and a like claw scratch then i like used the reg eraser to make the tail look sharper smoothed out some stuff and make the heads a little bit brighter.