The Girl, The Snake, and The Soda. By C.S. Lewis

 

Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop CS5

 

My hand still hurts after doing the photoshop paintings for The Satan Killers, so I've been trying to figure a way to spend less time on the tablet. I thought I'd try Corel Painter to see if it is any faster for what I'm doing and I did these for a comparison. I haven't used it since v9.5 and my opinion is still the same. Cool for some things, can never seem to make a set of brushes that do everything I want. I always thought of digital painting as its own medium, so I was never super on-board with the 'it feels like traditional media!!!!' thing. It has always seemed to have problems Adobe ironed out ages ago too, the one most annoying to me this time was how slow brush resizing is and that it requires two taps to start working again, often making a mark I didn't want. Then you hit ctrl+z, but it didn't actually register the mark so it deletes the layer you just made instead, etcetera etcetera.

Two catgirls enjoying hamburger sandwitches

 

Balletarinas 3

 

Final Balletarina studies testing ink. The ink wash worked fine with sumi ink but didn't play nice with Lamy cartridges so I decided to forsake them. I think I just finished the first draft of The God Labs 01, finally, after all these years, using said cartridges. At 3 panels per page I counted it to be about 70 pages which is nice because any more and it has to be compressed as all get-out to even submit it to Kindle. Part of the reason The Satan Killers is 47 pages, also because I was desperate to release something and wanted a short project that would lead into, finally, The God Labs.

The Satan Killers!

 The Satan Killers! Graphic novel on Kindle, prologue on youtube! You have now bore witness the the extent of my ability to self promote, congratulations!

 The Satan Killers on Kindle

Balletarina 2

 

This I was just trying to use up the pen so I could change the ink.

Ballet a rinas 1

 

More ink and pen testing for the next graphic novel