Well, had a good few hours to play around with my graphics tablet and my new found knowledge of brush functions and such and have created Scene 1 of a story board idea I have - this will be scene 1 of 5.

Not fantastically drawn because as I mentioned before, this is a skill I do not possess, though, I am quite satisfied with the result as, quite frankly, on Wednesday I could never have dreamed of making this.

So, the scene is supposed to depict a (as of yet, nameless) adventurer looking out over a  'picturesque' valley below him, from a high cliff vantage point:

Well, have been in a blog free zone for the last 14 or so weeks due to a Hell of a lot of programming but Thursday saw the end of that section and the dawn of the Art lectures - Enter Photoshop!

I have used Photoshop in the past but never for free hand drawing/concept art etc, pretty much due to the fact that I can't draw - bit of a hindrance you may say!

Well suffice to say there is a whole load of rather awesome functionalities in Photoshop, mainly to do with the paint brush tool, that I had no idea existed and being shown what they were and how to use them was rather exciting and strangely invigorating for a guy who can't draw so, I post here Thursday lessons play around picture that I made while messing with brushes: