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OK, this took WAY more time than I wanted to spend on it, and time is not something I particularly have available just now, thanks to the (CENSORED BY KANG) people at college who decided it was a GREAT idea to make us do 6+ major projects, namely two mock History papers, two History Powerpoint Presentations, four pages of Maths Reading, and a six-page Physics paper over half-term (and you just know they'll say something like 'I hope you had a GOOD REST at half term, because we're going to pile on the pressure now'). Bah. It would have gone quicker, but I'm using PaintNET (the poor man's Photoshop - think MS Paint but with the ability to add layers and without the curved line feature, which I could have done with having). Plus, my computer has the charming habit of corrupting JPEGS:- not massively, but just enough to stop me from doing any sort of digital inking.

So basically, I I took a simple sketch < [link] > and, using a second layer, traced it onto the computer. That meant I could quickly and easily colour it. If I actually get a) the time and b) the motivation to continue with this, I'll add some better shading, but until then I never want to have to do anything else on this picture. I completed about 75% of it in two hours in a frenzy of activity, then made the mistake of saving it in JPEG form. Nuh-uh. Suddenly, the pristine white between the black lines is speckled with very slightly off-white squares, making my 'fill' utility about as useful as a chocolate teapot. But it's finished now.

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OK, this took WAY more time than I wanted to spend on it, and time is not something I particularly have available just now, thanks to the (CENSORED BY KANG) people at college who decided it was a GREAT idea to make us do 6+ major projects, namely two mock History papers, two History Powerpoint Presentations, four pages of Maths Reading, and a six-page Physics paper over half-term (and you just know they'll say something like 'I hope you had a GOOD REST at half term, because we're going to pile on the pressure now'). Bah. It would have gone quicker, but I'm using PaintNET (the poor man's Photoshop - think MS Paint but with the ability to add layers and without the curved line feature, which I could have done with having). Plus, my computer has the charming habit of corrupting JPEGS:- not massively, but just enough to stop me from doing any sort of digital inking.

So basically, I I took a simple sketch < [link] > and, using a second layer, traced it onto the computer. That meant I could quickly and easily colour it. If I actually get a) the time and b) the motivation to continue with this, I'll add some better shading, but until then I never want to have to do anything else on this picture. I completed about 75% of it in two hours in a frenzy of activity, then made the mistake of saving it in JPEG form. Nuh-uh. Suddenly, the pristine white between the black lines is speckled with very slightly off-white squares, making my 'fill' utility about as useful as a chocolate teapot. But it's finished now.