We’ve been pretty busy on individual side projects these days, but here’s our latest piece. It was a commission by Lady Seraphina, and she has the patience of a saint. We hope the wait was worth it.

The Exotique 3 art book is now available to order from Ballistic Publishing. Dubbed as “a collection of the world’s most beautiful digital characters”, the books from Ballistic Publish are all excellent books. I have a few in my collection and they are very beautiful and high quality. Of course I’m also mentioning it since one of our pictures was selected for inclusion. Electric Boogaloo is on page 35, you can actually browse through the book using the first link above.

There are a million tutorials online so I often feel like doing any of my own would be pretty redundant. But there is one area that I often see done differently than the way I prefer and that’s when people prepare their line art for coloring in Photoshop. The easy way and the one I see most often in tutorials is to just duplicate the layer with your line art and set it to multiply and then color on a layer underneath. This does work, but I find it extremely limiting compared to the method I use and learned while coloring comics.

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Post number 9, by Newt, not Rebecca. We’ll be contacting you to get your address and you’re print of choice will be on it’s way. As for that runner up prize, you’ll never know since you won. Thanks to everyone who entered our little contest.