You Will Do Math, and My New Friend Radial Blur

So I've got a few things going on now. Nothing major, but, well, you know, stuff.

First: I've added a captcha to my site, forcing all of these fucking mindless hard-on medicine bots to do math or piss off. This means all of you need to do basic math to post on this site. If you can't do basic math, I probably don't want to talk to you, so whatever.

Second: I like radial blur. I used it to get the wings on that creepy Butcher Faerie up there to look all...blurry... and it worked exactly the way I wanted it the first time I used it. That' pretty rare; usually this sort of stuff takes a lot of trial and error.

Blur is a tricky thing in photoshop. I've seen a LOT of artists who are just starting to get a handle on it overdo blur to the point of irritation. It's sort of like drinking; use in moderation or you'll get all fucked up. Personally, I go the other way, being a near teetotaller as far as the blur function goes. It doesn't integrate well with my style unless it's used very sparingly. But radial blur has some nice potential for motion in it, so I'm probably going to sit down and really hack at it a bit and see what it can do.

Another interesting thing about the wings on this dude; they're wasp wings. Usually I just make shit up as I go, but this is one rare case where I used a direct photographic reference to make something. There's a few spots where they're off from real wasp wings, and some of the lines are a bit over-emphasized, but anatomically those are exactly what wasp wings look like.

Also, I am eating cream of broccoli soup for lunch, and eet eez deelishis! :dance: