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Stupid anality. Drives me nuts. Trying to paint an actual portrait of Copernicus and yeah, she ain't workin' out so far. Tried that thing where you lay down the darkest colours first and gradually get lighter - doesn't happen. Wish I didn't suck so completely at light. The original idea was to have the light coming upwards towards his face from a candle on the desk or something. It's only in the early stages so perhaps I shouldn't rant too much but usually I can 'see' where it's going by this point - however, I cannot, which is why I find it frustrating.

*epic lose*

Solution: Eat chocolate chip cookies until my hands are too greasy to hold the tablet pen. Mwaha.

K, solution is working and it's starting to look WAAAAY better. Learned two very important things just over the course of the last hour - change the brush shape to make things look more dynamic - ie. if I'm painting his nasolobial folds and the light goes from the top to the bottom of the canvas, change your brush shape to mirror that. And hoshit, what a difference it makes. AND when blending, pull from the colours right around that area - ie. don't just alternate between the two main colours on your colour palette. This is all stuff that's probably been obvious to everyone else for years but I'm a little.... uh... slow.

KK, so this is teh way it looks so far. It's still way the hell too dark - nice tan, Nic - and his eyes creep the poo out of me but s'good.


K, have to go get ready to go out with some 'friends.' DO NOT WANT. DD: At least we're going to see 'Juno'