Jesse Hajicek

The big difference, to me, is that Adobe had a guy locked up away from his family for months because they thought it was theoretically possible that a program he wrote could have been used to make copies of books that Adobe didn't even own, but which were "protected" by their technology.

Corel has not done this.

Advantage: Corel.

I know what you mean. It's very organic, sometimes in unpredictable ways. That might be frustrating for some people, but I really like learning to finesse new media, so I'm happy with it.

I'm not sure whether other programs have watercolor brushes that work the same way, so it might be. I used a big soft wash brush all over with the darkest warm skin tone, then a transparent water eraser at about 15% to lighten most of it, and a smaller wash brush with pale blue-gray for the deep shadows. The little details like the pink on his nose and under his eye, I did on a different layer so they wouldn't bleed into the skin tone too much.

Heh, you have bull-dancers on the brain. Loved your Greek story in Spank Palace, btw. I wasn't coherent to comment at the time, but I thought it was delightful.

I'm coming to it from Photopaint, so I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing at all. :D It's fun figuring it out, though.

Like I said to hyksos, it's organic and sometimes unpredictable. More like a meatspace medium than a digital one. The watercolors, particularly, are every bit as crazy as real watercolors, and they do all the same freaky bleed-and-drip things real ones do. The difference being that, unlike real watercolors, you can do them on layers, erase them, put effects on them, and so forth. I'm quite happy with it.

I love how you did his hair.