Last night I remembered I'd wanted to work on the character designs, so I drew a line drawing of my hippie character, gave her curly hair and named her
Dahlia, which is a kind of flower named after a dead Swedish botanist: one Anders Dahl. After I finished, I copied the image with my amazing Hewlett Packard OfficeJet G55 printer/scanner/copier and coloured her in with coloured pencils.
I also drew & coloured the side view and then went to bed. This morning I drew & coloured the angry, sad, & chibi Dahlias while making sure Nora didn't die. [She was chundering all morning & had a temperature of 104. Well, okay, so I wasn't really making sure she didn't die, but Mutti told me to sit by her and get her anything if she needed it. Of course she fell asleep, so I had nothing better to do than colour.]
Later today, I scanned the line drawing and CGed it with Photoshop. My first ever photoshop CG! Well, except for one I did a long time ago with a trial version that I COULDN'T SAVE BECAUSE THE STUPID THING WOULDN'T LET ME. h8h8h8h8h8h8. Er, anyway. I was excited to CG because I had the opportunity to finally use this
tutorial. I've been so jealous of that girl's CGing skillz for ages, but I couldn't use that tutorial because I have PSP, which just isn't the same. But now that I've illegally downloaded Photoshop, all is right with the world. Huzzah.