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Well, after searching long and hard for a service that would do a decent job of printing Ben's picture, I figured the best one would be DA. Shutterfly will only upload .jpgs and myphotopipe had some sort of gawdawful program to use.

Since the size of the poster was 20 by 30 inches it was actually cheaper for me to buy the print account and then buy it. The HMS Benjamin was available briefly for 200$ (I didn't want anyone to buy it).

Lo and behold, I now have a print account and the three month subscription that came with it.

There is a point to this rambling, because now I can set the prices of my prints. And since the profit margins are so poor and I'm not exactly in need of cash now I'll set the prices as low as I can.

So if you want a cheap print, tell me what you'd like and I'll drop the price.

It might be a while before I upload more prints, since they're all on my other computer which needs to be put back together.

I can't believe DA just ate this entry XC

I realized that I haven't mentioned this to you guys, and while it isn't important I believe in being up front in how I do stuff as an artist.

The Photoshop brushes for some recent artwork of mine were not made by me.

They were created by M@, on conceptart.org to use. I'd link to them but you have to be a member to see them. If you are a member I'll gladly point you to them though.

Anyways, M@ is an excellent artist, and I really enjoy the brushes. I used to have my own set but I forgot to move them to the new computer, so I'm slowly rebuilding them.

95% of the brushwork I do is with the round default brush, so it's only for a few things that I use custom brushes for, but they are handy.

In part I wanted to talk about this since a few people have mentioned how difficult some of my art looks, and it will be the easiest part of the picture. Art isn't just about working hard, it's about being clever so you can work less. Not to bash hard work, but I only do ridiculously detailed pictures for meditative reasons. It blew my mind when I realized comic artists work on papers 400% bigger than the art you see in the comic books.

So I make (and use other people's) brushes to make things easier. Once you figure out how to make it work for you some neat effects can arise. Of course, always make sure you have permission!

I'm not exactly sure what I intended this tirade to accomplish, but it's off my chest now.

By the way, I'm out in Seattle. It finally turned sunny today

I think I'm a bit late, but I wanted to say thanks for all the visitors that came over from *beastofoblivion's vidya picture.

I really do appreciate all the favorites and comments, but I really don't have the time to reply to all of them. Sorry about that.

Thank you!

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Sketchblog:
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I figure everyone knows about this, but I'll leave it up just in case.

I've moved my sketchblog to livejournal, it's got some background on the art and sometimes has my attempts at writing. See it here [link]

Also on there is my (wimpy) attempt at the 24 hour comic. All four pages. Yep.

Anyways, while you're here you should check out ~StubbedToe who was also at the 24 hour comics day event and is awesome. You know you want to see the Hulk reciting philosophical treatises, you know you do.

Here it is [link]

Sketches, WIPs and other junk will be posted there in batches. Better stuff will still go here, and when I clean out my deviations, those will go into the old scraps section.

Enjoy!