The family's doing great, growing and getting smarter and more expensive by the day. What about you? What's going on in your world?

Actually I'm not active on here directly; just happens that my Tumblr feed connects here. I guess I set that up when I first created my Tumblr and forgot about it. My deviantART following works pretty well for me but I guess I can make time for this site too. I'm not convinced it's "better" per se, just different I suppose.

Aside from that, I'm great. Moving forward on my webcomic and really just focusing on producing what I want, making it the best I can and hoping to build a stronger following.

Yeah, Jess and I are part of a very small company working toward expanding our horizons but you're right- every day is a new challenge and a new hill to climb. We work our asses off and feel it's very worth it, but some days, ..... well... you know all about it, I'm sure. We're both self taught too- so any new thing has to be learned because we're too small to just hire someone to do it.

Coding these days is ever changing when you're working on a social platform too, which super sucks because you think you're done with something and then the "MASTER" code has a change that affects what you just did. pffft. lol I don't code, I do 13 other things. I understand what's being done, but just to sit down and right code? hell no.

On the contrary, I have the patience of a mosquito on speed.
It might seem to the casual observer that this picture might take a while to finish, but that is not the case. I can prove it using science......
This picture uses a stippling technique which, as you know, uses lots of single dots of ink to make up an image. It takes only a fraction of a second to place a point of ink on paper, whereas it takes a few seconds to draw a line. As this picture is comprised of dots and not lines it obviously took much less time to finish.
There, proven with logic and science.

[meanwhile,back in reality....]
I think that it took me somewhere between seven and nine hours of work spread over a few days.
Thank you for your interest and comment.

Eamonn

It was my pleasure.
And thank you for the favourite on the Victoria cartoon. Much appreciated.

I think that every town does have someplace like this but the politicians have all learned to avoid it (I know that they never call around here any more > ).

You are very welcome. It's my pleasure.

I do like my clichés.
Thank you.

Thank you kindly. I think that most scanners have trouble with pencil work at the best of times. Ah well, it seem that we'll still put up the work for all to see even when we know it is not going to be viewed as it should be. Artistic vanity?

No. White balance has to do with the color of the light in the environment you're shooting in. Different fluorescent lights have different colors temperatures--shooting in daylight is different than in incandescent light.

White balance is equally relevant in the world of digital photography as in the use of color film (and is totally irrelevant in the use of black and white film).

Or maybe mess with blending options on the layer with the symbol.
Change the shadows and shading or embossing to bring it out more.
Perhaps even add a light stroke around the symbol.

You've got every right to copyright but if it takes away from the work, then it's hard to get an objective critique- in my experience. Usually when people rip art, it's for the faces to use as profile pictures (as an example) and there's no reason you shouldn't put the watermark there. I've found that experimenting with the watermark itself is even fun to do. In my last piece, you can see where I've separated my art name one near the top and one near the bottom. Maybe work on making a creative watermark, or symbol that you'd use in every piece and find something you like that is more artsy than just a typewriter looking one.

Since you work with photoshop, after you have transparent .png file that you like, then put it on the image last, copy the layer, mess with the layer style and opacity until it becomes part of the art and is easily recognizable as YOUR mark.

It's part of a bigger project that has to do with youtube, intimacy and internet privacy.

You can definitely still buy them. Try eBay, or check if there's a camera swap in your area (camera swaps are like trade fairs, you can buy old equipment and parts and things you wouldn't be able to find anywhere else). I got my Canon QT at a tiny hole-in-the-wall repair shop.

I don't think I did, with this one. It's compressed charcoal on newsprint, it's fairly high-contrast on its own.