Thank you
It was meant as a publicity logo for a device called a HTKC, a little brass thing you put in your carburator somewhere, and it makes your car consume less petrol and produce less exhaustion fumes. Since it's economical and natural, and it actually looks a bit like a brass acorn, the idea of drawing a squirrel was obvious. The order didn't come trough, the guy who sold the things left and I'm stuck with my squirrel, but it can be still useful to practice coloring, while I'm trying out all sorts of programmes.
I started out as a comic artist in times when there weren't any computers yet, let alone digital art programmes... only brushes, real ones, Chinese ink, water colors or poster paint. That I can handle real nice! But editors want the stuff digitally colored nowadays, so I have to find at least one programme that I can handle. Most young colleagues use Photoshop, they learned that in Art School. But I hate it... when you look into a Phs. studybook, they spend 90% of it nagging on about fiddling with photographs, and I don't need all that! Just a tiny bit in the back of the book is about making art. And I'm too old to learn tons of useless stuff! I'd rather keep it simple.
Paint. net was easy to color, especially because it fitted my drawings, they're not exactly Tintin style. (that's called "Ligne claire" , clear line school). That sort of drawings can be colored in Paint, even. But in my rough style, none of the patches are closed, so that is useless. In Photoshop you have to fidget with that lasso for hours, so boring! So slow!
That's why I really want to use this, unless I can't put it into CMYK afterwards, some way or other.
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out