hehe, good reasons are good. :) beware of he who has the keys, he might lock you out... XD

I always looked the real toothy look of Mallory! That big ole smile drew me right to the book! Seeing it in a more sheepishly worried expression is too cute!

*LAUGHTER*

Thank you for this vignette!

*snickers* Yup, that's the Mallory this wuff remembers! Love the expression and posture you gave him in this.

You really should get a tablet. I traded drawing with a mouse for drawing with a tablet and I wouldn't want to go back at all.

I do enjoy the interactions between your characters.

A good drawing package is a godsend. Me, I've got a TabletPC and picked up Sketchbook Pro. Too bad I still have stylus-to-media fright...

Heh...I have Manga Studio Debut..(spins chair around)...hmm...3.0

I really need to get acquainted with that one...I've got a bad habit of buying software and never getting around to installing it O_o

The manual is Teh Suxorz, but there's a couple of help pages around on it. It's actually quite good. I particularly like the way you can pencil something (on one ... well... it's not a layer but it behaves like one) and mess around with it and then ink.

And I adore the ink brushes. It gives a very smooth weighted black line.

I've only fairly recently become acquainted with the concept of layers. first using them in a copy of Deneba Canvas I got off of a UK computer magazine CD. I normally use a very old app called Micrografx Picture Publisher (it was designed in the Win95 era), and up to maybe a year ago, all my pics were single-layer images, and some of them were rather complex for that method.

I've since learned that I can approximate layers with it by use of it's floating objects function, which behaves like layers, but each "layer" is confined to the mask that spawned it. So, each of these could be a small section of, or up to the entire image in size. Thanks to that discovery, and the use of Multiply and Screen modes, ("discovered" in a tutorial by evilartnazi), I now create pics that can be as much as a quarter-gig in filesize fullsize and uncompressed. I've had to buy bigger external hard drives to archive & backup my uncompressed projects thanks to those two relevations :)

Now there's our, uh, man Mallory. I sure have missed his what should be a trademark grin.

Maaaaaaaallory! Where is your sense of responsibility? Those keys also open up the food locker and I'm hungry!

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