Back on Gail's side of the story...
I don't know if those are really the "three ingredients of stealth." Maybe there are others? Maybe the others are so secret they can't be spoken of? That seems very stealthy to me.
So I've taken my first steps down the path of using some new artistic tools. I have now fulfilled a long-held dream of owning a really good drawing tablet--got a relatively new iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil 2. And I'm getting used to the Procreate software on that platform.
My previous process went like this:
1. Pencil on Bristol paper.
2. Ink with a brush.
3. Scan to clean up, color, letter, and finish in Photoshop.
This time around, I did step 2 on the iPad with Procreate rather than in Photoshop. I'm not unhappy with the results, and I think once I get the hang of it, I'll see a certain savings in time.
Procreate is a cool piece of software, but in order to get the full use of it, I'm going to have to overcome about 25 years of habits built using Photoshop. So I'm not sure how much of the coloring process I'll eventually be able to do on the tablet. We shall see, we shall see.
Oh, and hey, look! 2020 is almost over. Man, this year just whizzed by. Like a steamroller. Through molten glass. Being piloted by a sloth. An evil-tempered sloth who hates us.
Hope you are all well and safe, and wishing you better times in '21.
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