Diving into the digital world

Well I've had my wacom tablet and artrage for a week and I am totally addicted and loving it.  No more frustration with buying unsuitable papers and wanting more colours but feeling too guilty to buy them, or experimenting and ruining your whole piece - I have every color and paper texture I want finally!  The only frustration I've really had is losing hours of work as I forgot to save, but its part of learning and I won't do that again in a hurry.

This morning I was learning how to use the airbrush and drawing eyeballs.  Here is the result after around 40 mins of mucking around.  Thanks  to this tutorial lorrainekelly.deviantart.com/f…, I got a good start, but then redid it leaving the eye-lashes til last, adding in more colours with some W shapes to make it more realistic.  Biggest learning curve was getting the right blender setting for airbrushing.

Unfortunately I have to stop now to do my tax return