CS5!

CS5 is fun, I played around with their mixer brush tool. The blending on the fly is fun, but it gets difficult if I want to introduce a new colour, kept switching to the regular brush.

Now, I generally don't go for the Rorschach method of drawing random shapes until something comes to the surface, but this time random scribbling worked resulting in this insect... thing.

Michiru

Drew Sailor Neptune just in trying out a new technique in colouring, where you also colour in the lines. Not sure what to say about it - I had a difficult time coming up with the colour scheme, because I didn't want to go for the usual 'hey, since her hair is green, lets have her wear the same hues!' I still tried to keep it all girly, despite... really disliking girly stuff. Oh well.

... Anyway, I re-did it about 3 times, I just think it's time to put this one to bed.

Gussie and Prissy

Gussie has a friend! Huzzah!

Priscilla O'Something (because she's OYRISH) is the financially poorer, but much more in love with life ginger friend of dear Augustine.

We're getting our computers REPLACED WITH FREAKING MACS PRO (Mac Pros?...Although, iPods Touch, etc.), but the IT is messing with my scanner and long story short, I'm resorting to Photo Booth to get these digital.

The text may be hard to read, but it says:
Prissie: "Oh, no! You failed the history exam?! Your parents are gonna kill you, isn't this the fifth time this semester?"

Gussie: "Yeah, I know."

Tax Code genie

So.

A friend suggested I draw a tax code genie, an entity that only grants tax-related wishes. Pardon the image quality, I gots no scanners at home.

At first I was somewhat self-conscious about not being able to come up with a solution for his lower body, but then I figured... he never uses his legs anyway, always sitting behind a desk, so it's okay that they're an ethereal tail.

Anyway, I'm proud of his triangular ears (developed over time, should be seen in the biggest sketch) and his cuffs.

Green jacket

"Real 2B Pencil" tool in Painter.

The first time colours cooperated with me, and I didn't have to fight tooth and nail to get greens and purples to look normal on her face. Somewhat of a success, overall.

Gussie study

Dear old Gussie, I've abandoned you for quite some time.

Part of the problem is that she always has a pained expression on her face, as she's a suffering teenager, misunderstood by the world, abandoned by luck, etc, etc (all this is, of course, how she sees it - there's nothing particularly abandoned or suffering about a girl growing up in a wealthy family). And drawing a character that's constantly miserable tends to make me miserable also, and I don't want to deal with their emo anymore.

But anyway, I dusted her off again, as I started playing with oil pastels in Painter. Just laid down the values in a desaturated red. Then added colour in PS, plus some gradient layers... my only qualm about this is that I started with a white background... big mistake, I'll have to keep in mind to change it in later attempts...

Here's an older version, before I changed her face a bunch:

Painter...

 Oh, Painter. I really have a love-hate relationship with you.

Finally did something worth showing. D: