Axl

My first picture of Axl. (And about bloody time, too!) This is a bit of a landmark in my art, since it's the first picture I've inked - I usually just stick to 2B pencil because I make such a mess with ink. I even used that Adobe Streamline program that I recently got my hands on to smooth out the line art. It's also the first picture I've done with my Wacom pad. Well, that's a little white lie. I did about half of it on Wacom, but I got so fed up with its fiddliness that I did the rest (including the no-brainer background) with the mouse. I'm still baffled by people who jump on Wacom and call it a godsend. I even witnessed a classmate claim it was the next item on his shopping list after using it for the first time. I'll admit it gives the user various degrees of pressure, but that's no substitute for the extra control that a mouse provides. You can rest your hand on the mouse, but most of the time you have to hold the Wacom pen hovering just above the pad. That's too awkward for me. For those of you who use a Wacom pad, please tell me why you find it so useful.