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Okay, after spending half a year in a love-HATE relationship with Photoshop CS2, I am finally starting to get the hang of things. Here is a WIP of my entry for the latest monstersandmaidens contest, "Jungle Jeopardy." This is after six hours of work, about half of which was really figuring out what's going on in the program. I imagine I'll spend about 10-12 more hours on this in the course of the week, and then start another one ASAP to try and work out the kinks in my methods (and, besides the obvious lack of skill, there are MANY kinks in trying to adapt my painting/drawing approaches to the computer).

Regardless, I need to thank two people for helping me get going on this: (1) my wonderful wife, Camille, who patiently and professionally plowed through my computer-issues to get Photoshop working, and (2) *DocRedfield , who provided me with a great online tutorial for digitally coloring hand-drawn art (it came in very handy, Scott, thanks!). [link]

This doesn't mean that I will quit "Demon's Due," of course. The pen and pencil pages will keep coming out over the next month at about 3-5 pages per week.

By the way, this is my fourth digital drawing/painting. So, while I am certainly open to suggestions, give me some time to get a feel for how I am going to do things before you get too nit-picky or critical. Not that I'm too proud to take it... ...but I will take suggestions very seriously, and too many of them will fry my brain. Among my DA friends, Bryan, Fagashlil, Dyun, Doc, Dash, and a bunch of others kick my ass at this, and there are lots of folks out there who frankly blow me off the planet. Can't be helped--I gotta' start somewhere...

...women tied up and carted off seemed to be a good place for it, all things considered... And the whole "pulp fiction" comic-book style seemed appropriate, too.

Enjoy!

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Okay, after spending half a year in a love-HATE relationship with Photoshop CS2, I am finally starting to get the hang of things. Here is a WIP of my entry for the latest monstersandmaidens contest, "Jungle Jeopardy." This is after six hours of work, about half of which was really figuring out what's going on in the program. I imagine I'll spend about 10-12 more hours on this in the course of the week, and then start another one ASAP to try and work out the kinks in my methods (and, besides the obvious lack of skill, there are MANY kinks in trying to adapt my painting/drawing approaches to the computer).

Regardless, I need to thank two people for helping me get going on this: (1) my wonderful wife, Camille, who patiently and professionally plowed through my computer-issues to get Photoshop working, and (2) *DocRedfield , who provided me with a great online tutorial for digitally coloring hand-drawn art (it came in very handy, Scott, thanks!). [link]

This doesn't mean that I will quit "Demon's Due," of course. The pen and pencil pages will keep coming out over the next month at about 3-5 pages per week.

By the way, this is my fourth digital drawing/painting. So, while I am certainly open to suggestions, give me some time to get a feel for how I am going to do things before you get too nit-picky or critical. Not that I'm too proud to take it... ...but I will take suggestions very seriously, and too many of them will fry my brain. Among my DA friends, Bryan, Fagashlil, Dyun, Doc, Dash, and a bunch of others kick my ass at this, and there are lots of folks out there who frankly blow me off the planet. Can't be helped--I gotta' start somewhere...

...women tied up and carted off seemed to be a good place for it, all things considered... And the whole "pulp fiction" comic-book style seemed appropriate, too.

Enjoy!