October 31st, 2009
All of the coloring was done digitally in Photoshop CS4, with a Wacom Intuos®3 6″x8″ tablet. The previous 2007 iterations of these goddesses were colored in Corel Painter XI. I never got a firm grasp on that software, though. It was difficult for me to get the control I wanted, and the final results always [...]
October 31st, 2009
The inking process of these is pretty straight-forward. I was a bit nervous because pen and ink are not my media of choice and the one in which I probably have the least practice. Because I knew I needed clean, high-contrast line work for the Photoshop coloring, though, I knew it was a necessity. I [...]
October 29th, 2009
Holy crap. I just spent the better part of my morning troubleshooting why my new theme would not load correctly in Firefox. Correction: Would not load AT ALL. Nothing. Just a plain blue screen. Everything looked lovely in Safari and even IE, but Firefox held out its digital middle finger, cruelly mocking me. Turns out [...]
October 29th, 2009
Huzzah! The new and improved blog is back up, shiny and fully functional. A couple of months ago, I started posting about my Greek goddesses project. I’m happy to say that I’ve fully finished four of the five and will write in more detail about their creation process very soon. In the meantime, the finished [...]