wow, how much practice does this take...

That has nothing to do with practice. I could practice for hours every day and never be that good. That's what's called natural talent.
 
Probably a tablet. Damm, I need to go ahead and get one, not that I would be that good, but it would help me learn photoshop better.

it's still killing me that he was using PAINT...you could give me every bit of technology available to an artist and I couldn't come within 5 miles of that :lol:
 
Is interesting. The whole argument of paint/tablet/mouse is kinda dumb; it's not the wand people, it's the magician.