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Steel Roses wrote:It is difficult to find good art software, thats very true. There is plenty of powerful stuff out there, but the fact of the matter is its like learning how to use a nuclear reactor, when the only product of your suffering is a picture that could have been done nicer, and faster by hand.

I'm still using the free version of Paint Shop Pro for Windows 3.1 that I downloaded back in 1995. All the color images you see in my web page were done in that program. I just love the damned prehistoric 16 bit thing...

Ghastly wrote:Maybe someday when I get really good at it I'll have to write a book "Hentai watercolour techniques with Crayola washable magic markers". I wonder how long it will take me to get sued.

Doesn't anyone find the words "Hentai" and "Magic Markers" makes for an intresting word group

Anyway. Ghastly could send one of his pictures to Crayola. One of those portraits you did of Chibi-Sue or Kiki for the convention would be ok cause they're not overly erotic! Just remove any unnecessary text!

Wow.

during the short period of my life when I was knew I was destined to be an artist (yeah right), I spent ages looking for a way to draw buildings in the middleground. Wish I'd come across the technique Ghastly used there, my delusion might have lasted longer.

Amberchrome wrote:Oh, I've played with Crayola washables before. Nice for study and sketch work, but watch out for the fading. Doing it on good paper helps.

I do all this stuff on Georgia Pacific inkjet card stock. Almost as thick as Strathcona Bristol but instead of being $1 a sheet it's only 6 cents a sheet. It's also acid free so I don't have to worry about it eating itself.

It holds up very well when wet and doesn't crinkle much. I haven't noticed any fading on the originals yet, but after they're dry they go into an acid free plastic page protector and then into a zippered binder so they don't really see much light.

Seems to be working pretty good so far.

Tha_Pig wrote:Great job! I love all the detail you put on the background. The bricks look great! For some reason it reminds me some brick buildings I saw in Baltimore some years ago.

The buildings are purely from my own imagination but they're very much the architecture of Hamilton. In fact the street looks very much like it could be nearly any corner on Barton Street which, incidently, is where I saw the girl sitting on the steps that inspired me to draw this picture.

Very nice pic. She looks kind of... I don't know... malevolent dosen't she. Though I suppose the "Bad Girl" tagline is appropriate then.

That is some fastastic brick work there Ghastly.

And I agree with the sending an image to Crayola. Maybe if you're lucky they'll release a line called "Crayola Fuckable Watercolors".

Ohhh reminds me of a half japanese friend.

A half dressed half Japanese friend with a half malevolent look, sitting on half a step, at 1305 1/2 Half Street?

Cause that would just be recursive as fuck.

urrm... close... but no cigar.

awwww... I wanted a cigar..

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

right, which is exactly what I want.

kite-san wrote:sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

And somtimes it's been used by Bill Clinton.....

Irish Witch wrote:

kite-san wrote:sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

And somtimes it's been used by Bill Clinton.....

wooooOOOOOoooo Bill Clinton just got served!!!! Though, in my opinion he could've used a less... uhh, Pungent phallis... Do you think that she got all nicotiney from it being in there>?

Or is this the new alternative to the Nicoteen patches.

Don't smoke it, just put it somewhere....................
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