Various art related things

First: I have a bunch of somewhat dried out Fimo in various colours if anyone in Perth wants it. It's still useable, but a bit crumbly, so you'd want to be making something simple where you don't mind a rough texture. You could probably put new fimo over the top to get a nicer surface. There is apparently stuff you can buy to make it less dried out.

Second: Some time ago I installed Photoshop Elements on my laptop (it came free with my tablet) and have been using it for most of my art since then. The smaller screen and lack of features was a bit limiting at first but in some ways it was good to be forced to keep things simple and it's been fine for most purposes. A couple of recent pictures would have been be impractical without grouping layers so I drew them on the larger desktop machine with a full version of Photoshop and was struck at the difference to both using the laptop and to what it was like using the desktop machine before.
I REALLY appreciated being able to use all those extra features again (once I remembered where everything is) but also I think my process has become more streamlined and my art more loose and spontaneous after being forced to work within the extra limitations. I think I'll switch between the two computers from now on, keep me on my toes :)

Third: Art! All done on the desktop machine, as it happens.


Full Metal Alchemist: Roy and Miles on deviantART Roy and Miles at Tumblr

I linked this already but not properly, so you get it again. The other two are based on prompts and went into my scraps, so no previews.

Wolverina at Deviantart Traced from a photo of gretel

Jellyfish at DeviantArt, Jellyfish at Tumblr based on a photo by aristgd.