So I had to paint this on Photoshop CS3 for my art project in school. My teacher provided these line arts of "monsters" and we were graded on our coloring and effects. Obviously, what most kids did was color like how you would in MS Paint... you know, just fill in solid colors with the bucket and use a few stamps. But I used everything I knew about Photoshop and put it to good use. I used the airbrush for shading, gradations, shadows, multiply, a few filters, lots o' layers, and I made the background from a bunch of pictures I found on Google.
So I did my job. I impressed the teacher, but I have failed to impress myself. Bwah, you can still see a light white outline of the gargoyle! Not amazing like how everybody told me. They just don't know Photoshop and good art.