The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Finally done!

I love him too, I couldn't let him go.
It's usually completely in freehand, but this piece was going to be for a competition, so I went the 'longer' route with it.
Normally when I'm working on a piece, I come up with an idea first, usually during a pharmaceutics lecture, by sketching stuff around the margins of my lecture notes. If I like an idea, I'll do a few rough thumbnails, getting the composition and the values (range of lights and darks) right. Then I'll do a bigger mock up and sometimes scan it in ( particularly if the mock is rather detailed), otherwise I'll do it freehand. Once I have the rough in the back, I use it as a basis for the painting.
Unfortunately there aren't too many digital illustrators in Ireland- I'd love to meet up with more people who like this type of thing- it seems photoshop is only ever used for photo manipulation around here.... but I digress.
When I started out in digital painting (about 4 years ago?) I was using a tablet from Aldi, the Medion. Eventually I figured I needed to get one with pressure sensitivity, so I saved up and got a Graphire 3. It's my baby.

Any other creative people here? Come on out, it's your day today...

College has far too many hot people. It makes it hard for me to get any work done. The lot of ye should be ashamed, distracting innocent lil me with yer sexehness.

And I'm still stuck with this stoopid name. Grr.

Group projects for anything in college annoys the hell outta me!!! Pi88ed off completely with them, worse when your asked to choose your group cos you end up with mates...Absolute pain!!:mad:

I concur with annoyed gym sentiments. And I didn't see the notices because I wasn't in the gym last week. Who knows when I'll have the mental strength to force myself to exercise again? My guess is not before finals.