I.... wow... not even sure where to start. First off, I've been out of commission from even doing much art for quite some time. In May, my beloved Macbook Pro kicked the bucket. Around the same time, my husband got a new job and we moved once more across part of the US, but this time to actually lay down roots. Hopefully, no more moves for a very long time. Between selling our previous home, renting for a while at our new town while we looked for a permanent home, then moving into that, tending to new home stuff, getting a couple horses and a new dog not to mention all the things that come with a kiddo going from 2 to 3, I just couldn't justify dealing with the expense of a new mac and all that was going to entail.
I will try to keep this short. Recently, I just couldn't take it any more. I had to get something set up again to do my artwork. Keeping up with a Mac is just too expensive and I do have a phenominal home built PC. Unfortunately, my copy of PS CS6 is for Mac. A new copy of CS6 is... well, VERY expensive anymore. I also cannot justify their new subscription model. After 3 years, I will have paid more than what they used to sell the program for brand new when it was stand alone. So after some research I decided to move over to using Corel Painter 2018 and I must say 'WOW'! I have just sat down this morning to play with it and churned out a sketch of a character that I have been trying to really nail down in how she looks in my mind for, oh... 5 years or more. I am really looking forward to what this program has to offer and quite pleased with the initial sketch results. I felt like I was almost actually sketching with a pencil except I had all the tools that make changing things around so nice in a digital medium.
Fear not though, I have not forgotten my other WIPs from Photoshop. My work was all salvaged from my dead Mac, but I do have to spend time getting it all transferred from it to my PC. It's a matter of setting up externals, but I just didn't feel like messing with it today.
Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to getting back into the swing of things around here!