Waiting for Rain

It was a small creature, and rather squishy. It always carried an umbrella, in case it started raining underground.

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This was pretty much a texture experiment. (No, I can't just scribble on a piece of scrap paper like normal people.) I did my usual thing with the scribblies and the rocks, and then pulled out my Secret Weapon--a dip pen, which I used to do the scribbly thing, only with white and grey inks. (That's always been my stumbling block--dark scribble is easy, light opaque scribble is hard.) Then I danced around yelling "VICTORY IS MINE!", which scared the cat, because it worked much better than I expected--if anything, the white was almost too opaque, and I had to keep blotting it. The dip pen absolutely made all the difference. So I was pleased with that, and will probably be using it a lot in the future. (I wonder if that's how Palencar does it? Adding the white scribbly really kicks it up a notch.)

Even though it's all very simple shapes, I kinda like how that works with the relatively complicated textures. What the small squishy creature is, I'm not sure, but it seemed inevitable that it should be carrying an umbrella.

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