Here’s another test of my new technique using real paints as opposed to digital. I did do a fair amount of digital touch ups on this, though.

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 I enjoyed painting the baby so much, that I decided to paint a more complex image.  But at the same time, I didn’t want to give up the pen and ink work that I love so much.  So I’m trying something new… one part pen and ink, one part paint, and liberal amounts of Photoshop to get everything working together.

I might explain this new process in more detail at a later time…

This blog had some technical issues which had the blog down for a few days. After wrestling with databases, php and config files and other things I knew nothing about, I was utterly sick of the computer.  

But I couldn’t let myself quit working, so I decided to try something a little different.  Usually, I draw in pen and ink and then color digitally with Photoshop. There’s occasionally an intermediate watercolor or inkwash step, but even then most of the color work is done in the computer.  But I needed a break from the computer, so I broke out my paints and tried to do a proper painting.  I haven’t done any painting since college, and my skills were really rusty.  After more trial and error than I expected, the painting you see was “born.” I did end up doing a few slight adjustments in Photoshop, but not much.

In other news, I’ve decided to put the Daily Creature drawing on hiatus… it was becoming more time consuming than I had intended. But if enough people miss it, I might bring it back in the future.