New stuff!

OH MY GOSH I AM SUCH AN IDIOT!!!

So, I've never ever ever been happy with my digital art. I'm still not happy with it...BUT it has just gone up a gajillion times in quality. A week or two ago I finally bought my first-ever graphics tablet. It's a previous-generation, used, entry-level tablet, so I was able to nab it for all of 25 bucks. Safe bet, right?

I've been tentative about these things for ages because of my previous experience with a cheapo tablet brand that essentially acted just like a mouse and did nothing for me. I also thought I was doing alright with just a regular old mouse. Damn I was wrong.

Even though I bought pretty much the smallest, cheapest tablet out there (from a good brand, mind you) the difference in quality is like night and day. A tablet is to a fine paintbrush as a mouse is to a dirty bar of soap.

Here is the best thing I ever drew with a mouse. It took me 8 hours.

"Help?!" - Full painting is 6,200 x 4,064 pixels (25 megapixels)

And now here is the FIRST thing I drew with my new tablet. It took me 4 hours.

"Ginger Spring" - Full painting is 8,000 x 4,500 pixels (36 megapixels)

And thus I feel like a doofus. Two more drawings followed over the last week:

"Tigress" - Full painting is 8,000 x 5,000 pixels (40 megapixels)

"Colossus" - Full painting is 12,600 x 8,400 pixels (106 megapixels)

I have plans for many more! Look for something more cutesy in the next few weeks, something with Dick van Dyke, something else movie related...I have lots of ideas!