--Shem Hotep!--

I just tried coloring a page with a Wacom Intuos. I couldn't even finish the fucking sky let alone the rest of the picture. My eyes are killing me! How do you bastards USE this thing? Your hand is in one place and the line you are making is like ten thousand miles away from it. How do you get used to that? Maybe my hands are abnormally shaky, but I could NOT get this thing to work the way it's supposed to. I'd need a screen tablet. Only now I don't want one at all because the thing doesn't register that you're using it unless it's within a micron on the tablet, but if you move it that close you actually make contact half the time and contact means you get a stupid line in a place you didn't want. There's a button on the side of the pen which seems to be useless. It would be nice if you just kept the pen down and pressed the button for clicking, but that would be too fucking easy, wouldn't it? I can used colored pencils fast than this and get nicer results. Still not happy about it because it's so damn grainy it looks like I used crayons, but at least the color will go where I want it to.

Oh, and photoshop has only two shades of yellow: booger and urine. So the sun was looking like a pee stain. It's going to be colored pencils or markers, so grain or marker streaks. DEAL WITH IT. I GIVE UP. I hate coloring, but I cannot afford to pay anyone else to do it for me because of the car accident.




Maybe I could just post lineart. Or do this in strictly black and white. I don't know. I'm so mad at myself. I wish my coloring skill was at least close to matching my drawing, but it just ISN'T. And don't freaking comment and tell me it is because I'm sick of the flattery. Honestly? I think I draw really well and color badly. I don't hate my work, I'm just frustrated. I should probably just suck it up and color the damn thing and let my coloring skills improve with practice like my drawing did.

**Hotep is updated every Tuesday, but is on a brief hiatus while I overhaul the beginning. I am absolutely NOT giving up, I have NOT run out of ideas, I'm just taking the time to do a decent job. New pages will appear very soon. You can find Hotep here on DA or at this link: [link] **