Today's random art

I'm trying to commit to posting some kind of art, either by me or by someone else, every day.

I'm well ahead of quota for September, but I'm not sure how long I can keep up the pace.

In any event, this is from the 'jungle girl vs lingerie girl' fight I worked on incrementally from 1993 through about 1996 or '97.

I never finished it, of course, but I later reworked the concept into a tag team match. That was never finished. either, but pieces of that second story are around on the web.

I drew this at 800 x 600 pixels; in other words, at the actual size you'll see if you click on the picture. By comparison, I work now at 3360 x 2100 pixels. The computer I used in 1994, when this was drawn, wouldn't have been able to load a 3360 x 2100 graphic into memory. As I look at it, though, I can't see that this art has significantly less detail than the huge pieces I'm drawing right now.

I was sketching in Painter back then with a blue 'pencil' because I was accustomed to non-repro blue pencils from my Higgins Black Magic and Zip-a-tone days. I later discovered that as I put in color, I picked up litlle traces of the blue while blending. At the time, I liked the effect I got from that.

(I just threw out the last of my Zip-a-tone about four months ago, incidentally. The stuff was thirty-five years old, and the film was peeling off the backing sheets. I had hung onto it out of sentimentality.)