"A good likeness?"

You know, its been a good 4-5 years since somebody handed me a black book to art in? I kinda miss those days. I've not gathered any in my sketchbook in 2 years.

That's a surprise to me! Really. Original art as loose sheets, or as scanned files? Maybe it says something about webarchives and storing art as graphic files. Do you have ideas on what is happening? (Message if you prefer.)

Probably won't see much of this sort of thing in the near future, either.

Darn it!

The only way for hard-copy would be among 'family'. I suppose exchanging files would be possible, but the interaction between artists would have to be like some event on Zoom or Google Hangouts. Not many have the tech or space for doing that.

We all have to admit that in-person sketch trades are often totally quiet except for pen-scritches and grunts. 😉 I can sometimes hold a conversation if I am inking a pencil drawing, but it is almost impossible to sketch and carry on a real conversation. Visual construction gets in the way.

It's virtually impossible for me to write if someone else is talking. I can handle the television or music, but when I'm working my concentration is on the story, not some drivel.

I miss those days!
VERY nice coloring job btw! :D

Me too!

Thanks. I feel like I am thrashing through when doing color. It has been a relief to realize that most viewers will accept non-realistic coloring, as long as the color kind of makes sense on its own context. Makes it easier to try things, or accept 'happy accidents' in coloring.

My mentor always told me the Artists' Alley was a den of scum and villainy!

Thats cause you hang out there!!

"Perhaps he is only working under-the-covers, for ze floofy-bits league of vixens!"

I suspect that many convention concommittees really worry that is true!

now I have to say - whenever I go to the artist alley, I never recognize the artist because they don't look like their icons...

*smiles... well done Hey...

V.

Thank you!
You have found out one of the secrets of original personal characters....

What program do you use?

The original inks were scanned into PaintshopPro in the late 1990s. The color was done in 2014, maybe on the same graphics software. Paintshop Pro was bought out by Corel, so recently I upgraded to "Corel Paintshop Pro 2018" (but has been modilfied into more of a photo re-touch software, though the graphics capability has been buried in the retouch and painting features.)
I have not trained myself in anything close to the full capability. I also have bought Clip Studio, which is more of a drawing/graphics program, intended for printed manga & webcomics. I haven't seriously worked on learning the skills there, either.

I quite enjoy the pixels! I like experimenting with the paint brushes myself, and there are lots of videos out there to help out.