More tablet/shading practice, with somebody else’s face for a change. Far from perfect yet, but a noticable step closer.
Drawn in Photoshop over a photo base, using a tablet.

This image is also published on Renderosity and DeviantArt.

Trying to get used to using a tablet, while practicing shading. Drawn in Photoshop over a photo base.

I may not know how to shade worth a damn, but I do know how to cheat. Drawn in Photoshop, based on a photo.

How did I ever live without this? My grocery store is selling them—banana cases in hard plastic, each with room for one banana. Keeps your banana from getting squashed and bruised in your bag. Pure genius, I tell you. Genius!

I’ve decided to make some of the reference photos I’ve taken available to the world at large, and Flickr is the tool I’ve chosen for the job. Flickr allows for attaching a Creative Commons license to photos, which is just the thing I need. The utility making uploads less-than-painful is just gravy. Bless the [...]