So with some of his lessons still fresh in mind, I forced myself to sit down and try it out. It's not great, but it's a start. I'm practicing the thumbnailing technique he demonstrated.
And I painted it using the very first photoshop brush that I made! It looks like this:
The next step is to work on varying the value. Right now, the values are too similar and most of the image blends together. Another thing to do is to add more elements so that there are more entry points into the image and also creating more paths for you eye.
On the topic of blogs of artists from work (in case I haven't posted it before), here are blogs from two very cool artists from work:
Rad Sechrist (who taught the outstanding comic class) - http://radfordsechrist.blogspot.com/
Priscilla Wong - http://etelois.blogspot.com/
