Watercolours

Are awesome. I’ve been reading on watercolour painting for the past few months, and been working with Corel Painter for a bit before I headed off to the army. As opposed to working with stuff like oils and acrylics, you work from light to dark instead of dark to light, conventionally speaking.

It almost mirrors film and digital photography, where in the former you expose for the blacks and develop for the highlights and the latter vice versa. Really, it’s not that obfuscating once you understand the actual workings behind the smokescreen. Sort of.

Anyway, I was looking around for a good set of watercolour brushes that actually made use of Photoshop’s paint engine (mainly because I hate Corel Painter’s user interface) and happened to chance upon these about a month ago.

I just got to testing them out today. Yes, I am a failure.

Concept art. For what? I don't know!

I think I have to work on it some more. Or maybe work on something else that doesn’t visually make me want to hug it and vomit simultaneously.

This is a little short, I suppose, but recent events in the army and at home have come together in a most unpleasant combination to, uh, impede any attempts I make at actually doing something constructive, both physically and mentally.

I hope I’ll have time to explain further soon. In the meantime, yes, Chinese New Year just passed me by, and I did perform the required duties and such. I also received the customary monetary packages, which, if all goes well, should be well on the way to financing my collector’s edition of Street Fighter IV. That’s at least one tiny bright spot in the distance that I can look forward to.

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