I worked on this picture of Sephiroth (FF7) to practice shading techniques used in Anime.  It actually turned out quite well considering I only used a 2B pencil which does not get very dark in the first place.  Of course since this is my "practice" section I had to have something to practice off of. If you want to see the original Long Vo piece I looked at, go to the Scroll Website mentioned in the links.