That Boy

Practice painting with my new Intous 5 tablet.

My old Graphire was messing up and having lots of issues, so for my 28th birthday my boyfriend decided to surprise me with a brand new Intous 5 tablet and mouse. Last month he also surprised me with full versions of the Adobe CS 5 Suite (I was still using CS 1) and I wanted to test out both the capabilities of the tablet as well as the new features in Photoshop. I wasn't sure what to draw though as I'm still suffering from what seems to be permanent art block (this is my first piece since last year) so he randomly/jokingly suggested I paint him.

So I did. I tried anyway. I have a lot of frustrations with this piece but I think I've reached the point where anything else I do to it just ruins it and takes it beyond my original intent, so I am satisfied with my current result and am calling it finished. It was just supposed to be a quick practice piece but it's actually taken me days and days because I'm so out of practice that even simple things were giving me trouble and I had to keep restarting from scratch.

Oh look at that I'm still super wordy with my descriptions.

Medium: Painted entirely from scratch in Photoshop CS 5 using the new "painting" brushes.