And then they had sex the end.

Spoiler! >_<

No, this is the Michael Bay edition, so unfortunately the world ends first.

Oh my goooooooooooooooooddddddd

MICHAEL BAY!!! EXPLOSIONS!!!!!

*esplodes*

*coins phrase* "the life expectancy of an internationally recognized monument in a Michael Bay movie.."

Or...OR...Maybe they just cuddled and fell asleep. Really. Where's the good old fashioned values on which we used to rely?

At least we can trust people to sometimes put prepositions in the proper place :p

Looks super cute already! Can't wait!

d'awww <3

Aww, two puppies playing cutely on their bed. And video taping it for some reason. Oops, looks like they knocked over their something sutra book.

The Corgi Sutra? :D

My god, where do I buy this book! X3

Well, if where they sell Heat is any indication... http://www.sofawolf.com/catalog/

Oh nice :D can't wait to see and read it :) I didn't know we were allowed to post spoilers of the Heat illustrations, I'm keen to ask if I can do the same

Aww this is simply cute ^^

Awesome! Cute corginess!

*giggles* this can only result in adorableness

Awesome and cute! Can't wait to give it a look-see. ^^

Yay!

I love that they have Kong toys! (Or so I presume that's what's falling off on the right.) Do they chew on them like gum when they're distracted? Or does one fill it with peanut butter for the other to lick out as a treat? :D

I guess those would be more dishwasher-safe than tennis balls...

Hopefully you even get to reading this:

I have tried using TVPaint because you guys recommended it to me at FC last year (if I remember correctly).

I tried to use it and it does not even look half as smooth as what you have posted here. Are there any tips you have to using TVPaint for the lines? Also, the fill tool doesn't seem to work the best either... do you even use that or just manually "block" in the colors behind the line art?

Thanks! :D

I'll take some screenshots of the settings and techniques I use when I get back to my computer :3

Alright, thanks! :D

If you want to take this to notes/email, let me know, so we do not clutter your gallery/comments! :O

I don't mind discussing it here, since I figure some others might find it interesting, too.

Here are the basic steps that I use for flood filling. For inking I select the black pencil, then adjust the size to whatever I need. I work at 300-600 DPI (this file is about 5000x6500 px at 600 DPI, so it's pretty big. Lineart often looks smoother and cleaner when you shrink it down, which is why I like to work big. Also, I've found that TVP doesn't have the best damping, so in addition to working large, I also zoom in to 200% all the time for inking. It looks very sloppy very quickly if I work any less zoomed in.
http://kendavi.com/tvp/steps.png

And here's a screenshot of the fill bucket settings.
http://kendavi.com/tvp/fillbucket.png

Does this help, or not so much?

I've often worked larger and zoomed in, sometimes at 300 dpi; now I'll always do that. I'm guessing you do a little sharpening and other tweaking afterward?

I've painted solid colors in before but I'm now fiddling around with the paint bucket in Photoshop CS3.
✔Anti-alias ✔Contiguous ✔All Layers
Look ma, no halos! And the paint's on a different layer, too!

And the big question: So it ISN'T one continuous, nuanced stroke at a memory-intensive resolution prone to lagging? It just looks like it? What a relief! My only smooth lines came in one low-res stroke, with lots of Ctrl-Z. Now I know I can do better. I've just been derping about it the wrong way.

I resize my web versions using the bicubic sharper algorithm, but I almost never use additional sharpening filters, because I don't like the effect it has at the borders of colors.

When inking, I think in arcs, and draw them in one swoop. This makes them much smoother than if I did them as a series of strokes. I also move quickly, to help keep the jitters and indecision out of the pen.

I have two layers: One unsharpened original, one sharpened on top, and scale it back to a less grating opacity. #cheating

I guess in the end, inking works faster that way, and isn't all that tough when you get the hang of it. Practice.

Thanks for the advice!

It was helpful... if I get free time, I will have to reopen that program again!

Side note: Just checked and now I have to reinstall it! Gah! >.<

I love your work but knowing this subject matter is in it is making me rethink my interest in the product.

I haven't bought many of the more recent HEATs, but knowing that there are corgis in this one... corgis will part me from my money.

Puppes!