Slumber

It's been a year since I last drew -- maybe spring is just drawing season?



I had way too much fun coloring her hair.



Because the one she wore in the movies just did not really translate well in PS tbh >.>



I loooooved the texture of her dress but alas, it does not come larger than that.



CLOTHES ARE SO HARD.



One of the prompts in hh_sugarquill is Costumes, and immediately my thought went to Disney.



Still on the costumes kick. Imagine Hermione watching Beauty and the Beast -- she'd have been 11/12 when it came out. IMAGINE IT.

The lines aren't super clean but I'm actually really happy about how this turned out in terms of shading/coloring and stuff. Still not quite sure how to manipulate the tools in Photoshop and ArtRage but this weekly practice is useful, I guess.



( Fleur Delacour )

After posting this and reading what everyone had to say, trolling Tumblr for reviews, watching YouTube videos, reading Amazon reviews, I bit the bullet and ordered it. I figured, if I couldn't get a lot of use out of it, I could always just sell it on eBay -- it's not going to be at the same price, but at least I wouldn't lose all ~$65 on it.

It came in yesterday, because I chose local delivery (which was the same price as standard delivery, which would have taken 3-5 days), and I have to say, I kind of love it.

( First shot )

Drawing on the tablet while looking at the screen takes some getting used to, but I already work with a mouse in general and I don't think the difference is all that huge, actually. Hovering to do things hasn't been hard to do either. The only thing that's been annoying me is sometimes it'll switch from brush to the grabby little hand that moves your canvas around, but I figured out that might just be the little buttons on the stylus, so that's corrected itself for the most part. Definitely need to work on cleaner lines, though. And shadows. Urgh. How do you shadow?

I think what I like best is, in Photoshop and using layers, this is such an easy way to sketch something out, draw the line art in, and then move on immediately to coloring. I haven't tried Art Rage yet (the software it comes with), but I'm excited to because it looks like it works with coloring media (oil paints, for sure, but I hope there's watercolor) that's a lot more natural-looking than any other program does, so I'm gonna give that a go.

acidpop25, I nearly forgot to put this up. Erm. I have no scanner, so I took a photo.


Proof that Terminus Does Things to You


Right, so:

• Invisibility Cloak Nearly Possible
  
  
• The Best Table in the World
  
  
• terminus_notes - Notes from Terminus by those who attended, for those who didn't. Um. It's bare bones for now, I basically just put in a working structure and stuff, but yes. If you know anyone who was in Terminus who took notes, or at least remembered the gist of the discussions they were in, please see if they would like to share their notes here. I'll put mine up probably after DC. (Speaking of, I'm never going to get anywhere in that place I have absolutely no plans. :|)

Good night, LJ. ♥