Photoshopping

About 7 or 8 months ago I was in the middle of an NVQ that the job centre had forced me to go to. It hadn't mattered to them that I had a degree, of course it didn't. Lets face it, whats that even worth nowadays?

...lets not get into that one today. The point is, since it was a computing NVQ, and considering there was little more they could teach me, they decided just to ask me what I wanted to learn. I had decided that since my University years had concentrated on the coding side, I would like to venture into the world of graphics. Thus began my stint of playing with Photoshop day in and day out. Some of the stuff I'll put up, some is too drastically awful that I won't....although maybe I will.

Things got to the stage where I had done everything set for me and I was left to my own devices. This was when I trawled the net for tutorials to further develop my skills (as well as fall in love with graphics tablet/pens...seriously, it got to the point where I never went near my mouse, whether I was using Photoshop or not). I eventually came across a nifty little tutorial that taught you how to colour in black and white pictures (without spending hours and hours tracing the lines). Above is the original (click on it for a larger image), and below is my coloured and shaded attempt. I'm really proud of this one.