Reply #65: A mix of quills and ink pens.

[Forkboy]

Brushes of any type intimidate me. I just never found a comfort zone with them, and it doesn't really fit my style anyways, so I've never busted my ass to get better with them. I did some stuff with them in Art School but never really took to them. I loved sculpture though, and wish I could afford the materials for it. At this point though I can barely afford Playdoh.

One of the reasons I moved to more digital stuff was that my friend gave me Photoshop, Bryce, Corel Illustrator and the old Ray Dream modeling program (which I never figured out). I had all these sitting here and just started messing with them and found I could do some pretty neat things that would have taken me forever to draw. As I have the patience of a ferret on crack I found this very exciting.

I know some artists have mixed, or outright negative feelings on digital art, but I really enjoy doing it, and I have no doubt that many old masters would have loved to have that option. This took me about 12 hours to do, but doing it traditionally would have taken waaay longer. This is all Bryce, with just the butterflies added in Photoshop (and no, I don't usually do nice pictures, this was for someone's birthday ;) )