30 Minutes

Ok, so I got Photoshop CS5. It has a whole slew of new features I'll probably never touch, but some that might end up useful to me. Right now I'm trying to get a feel for the thing. It has some sorts of new brushes that are supposed to behave more realistically from what I understand.

So I decided I'd try to give some of them a whirl with a quick half hour portrait. It seems to me that they're not really doing anything different than the old brushes. This sketch is kinda wonky in some areas because I was trying to test out as much of the new stuff as I could think to use.



So far I'm liking CS5, but I'm not doing anything differently. I probably just need to read up more about it and keep experimenting. I want to keep doing more characters for my portfolio, but I need to start getting some environments in there too. Right now I'm in full-swing character mode, though. Oh well.