Monday June 25th 2001
Yet Another Late Night Update { Forrest }
I'm delusional from sleep deprivation so please pardon this news post, but one of the artists I've been nagging to do that promised sidebar art, the venerable Hippieman working on the Pfhorathon Marathon scenario and also doing some textures and various other things for me... finally pulled through and got me a kick-ass paintbrush image for the sidebar in, um... some place else. Yeah. Not a new section of Myth@B.org, coming Soon™. (Remember, I'm delusional, I'll say anything right now!).Mneh. Anyway, in touching up his image, I discovered the artist hidden within me. I decided to try my hand at the other ones. I've never tried combined sketch/photoshop work before, and my photoshop work has always been crap alone, and I never had a scanner to get my decent sketches into the computer... but now I DO have a scanner, and toying with dodges, burns, color shifts, and various transforms in Photoshop, I discovered the Ian McConville hidden inside me.
And after getting a few pointers from the REAL Ian, who hangs on Bungie.Org's Hotline server, I churned out two new images which now grance the sides of every Legends and Forums page. It's a shame there's only one Forums page, cuz I'm really proud of that feather. (Hrm, maybe...). I also touched up Gargamel's old sword image in Mythmaster Central, to fit with the overall theme better and generally show more of its true colors thanks to the Color Dodge tool in Photoshop.
Wyrd bless Adobe.