I wasted an hour and a half trying to get the webcam software to recognize the webcam on the new computer, but it won't. I will have to mess with it again another day. Because of that I'm in a slightly grumpy mood and not quite so much wanting to paint as I was an hour and a half ago, but here I am anyway. I just set up the old computer to run the webcam so that's on now. I mainly run it to keep the local copy of the 5-minute-interval progress shots for my own use, but if you wanna watch you can :)

Hopefully I can make some decent progress before I get too sleepy.

In other news: Happy birthday anitavacation!

I worked on the hands, the paintbrushes, and the hair. To make sure I didn't mess them up I masked off the fingers of the lower right hand with masking tape. It took a lot of tape. Slowly, slowly, progress is made. Oy!


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I need to call Adobe tech support because I can't get Photoshop to work on my laptop, so I wasn't able to re-square the picture this time or brighten it (if I use the flash it looks goofy, so I have to take it without and then increase the exposure in Photoshop, usually) so it's a bit dark. Sorry. I'll try to remember to come back and fix it.