warning: boobs are below!

Because this culture is stupid and prudish about female nipples, I had to mark this as mature on deviantart. I'm pretty sure that also means I can't post it to facebook to share it.

I could go on a rant now--I mean, really: everyone, and I mean everyone has nipples. What's so mysterious and porny about them if they're constructed of XX genes?--but I'd rather talk about my picture. Ahem.

This took me about four hours, which is much improved from past projects I've done. I think a lot of that is because I got a new program: Artrage really makes me confident enough to do my pictures 100% digital, and being able to go from sketching to inking to coloring in one picture speeds everything up nicely. (Oh boy did that sound like a paid promotion. But I'm not being paid. Not even in anchovies. I just like the program.)

so that's why I have a tablet!

I got a little Wacom Bamboo tablet for . . . I think it was my birthday last year. Or maybe the year before. My not remembering the exact date may show exactly how much I haven't used it. I mean, I asked for it, I wanted it, I was excited for it. I'd seen people do digital drawings in tutorial videos and had been blown away by all the options. The possibilities of layers, for one, made me want to dance around in glee, clutching the tablet to my bosom. Ahem. Anyway.

So I plugged it in, loaded the drivers, had fun writing "omg I am writing with a tablet" a few dozen times before dragging out whatever photoediting software I was using at the time (might have been Paintshop Pro, maybe Paint.net). I scribbled excitedly. And it looked like . . . a scribble. A scribble where all the lines were a uniform blackness, a uniform unattractive fatness. I blinked, and tried again. Same thing. Not exactly the sexy depictions of line quality I'd seen in tutorial videos.