2008-09-03 [Jeccabee]: that's awesome [iippo]! What are biros? Looks kinda like a ballpoint pen.

2008-09-03 [Yncke]: That's a British ball point pen. ;)

2008-09-04 [deeterhi]: wow, it's funny because I've been thinking for a while how I should use more purple in my work since I rarely ever do.

2008-09-04 [Jeccabee]: ah... cool. Well you did a very good job!

2008-09-05 [iippo]: Yeah, ballpoint pens. ^^; It's one of those instances where the name of the brand has become the name of the object (like hoover means vacuum cleaner etc...)

2008-09-05 [Jeccabee]: LOL yeah and Fritos means corn chips. We had a discussion about that in one of my marketing classes. Very interesting!

2008-09-15 [Mikie9191]: I like bic ballpoints - I call them a "bic", again a brand being the item. You can achieve a massive range of tone with bic ballpoints. I use a black one a lot.

2008-09-15 [deeterhi]: Microns are pretty okay to use too. I esp. like them because they use india ink in them and are waterproof, so if I go over them with my watercolors, they won't bleed.
I mostly use them for doodling only though.

2008-09-16 [Jeccabee]: that sounds kinda like ZIG pens...they are archival...great for scrapbooking! :) I used to use them to outline my art before or after coloring with colored pencils. I do it all on the computer now. :P

2008-09-16 [deeterhi]: I could never abandon my brush and bottle of ink. I love the quality and the line that comes with doing things traditionally, but that's just my own personal taste.

2008-09-16 [Jeccabee]: Oh I wish I had the control to work with a brush and ink. I probably would if I tried. My boyfriend did a picture of himself (all distorted) with india ink...it was AWESOME! He layered the values and all. I was facnated just watching him.
I need to learn a little more about value and shading (like where certain shadows go) before I try anything like that though.

2008-09-24 [Mom]: This picture is hard to color...huh. 1/2 way done.

2008-09-24 [deeterhi]: if things were too easy though, they wouldn't be as satisfying to complete *nods head*

2008-09-24 [Jeccabee]: too true. I've just started coloring it...got some basic shades colors down, no shading or anything.

2008-09-24 [Anvikit]: I might just have to send my husband on a printing mission for me :D .. Our printers been outta ink for ages.. :P (after that I just gotta try to figure out how to make it work with vista to scan it :P)

Is it alright if my daughter does one too? she hasn't an elftown account, she's only 6 but loves to color all the same :D

2008-09-25 [Anvikit]: Humm.. was gonna play with it in paint for a little while (My tablets been outta commission for ages, and all I have is a laptop mouse.. but it just wants to color in grey scale... What format is it saved as?

2008-09-25 [deeterhi]: to [Anvikit]: It's fine by me if your daughter wants to color the image as well :)

As to your gray scale issue, I don't know what would be causing that. It's a JPEG. I scan all my lineart as grayscale, but that shouldn't make any difference, and on any program, it should be easy enough to convert an image into RGB mode anyways.

2008-09-26 [Anvikit]: Humm.. might just be the computer.. I tried a few different pictures.. they are all come through as grey scale.. I just copied and pasted it though and it worked fine that way.. hehe.. I had fun playing with it.. too bad it was on my husbands computer though lol!

2008-09-30 [XxTsomexX]: I'm gonna try ^^ It'll give me a chance to play around with my new Paint Shop Pro 8 :P

2008-10-01 [deeterhi]: groovy XP

2008-10-04 [Yncke]: A problem I had with my computer has returned (it turns out that they didn't repair a thing when I sent it in the first time), so it'll have to be repaired first before I continue with this one. :(