• I was watching a tutorial by Brian Haberlin yesterday and wanted to give the technique a try. It was about using Photoshop's dodge and burn tools as the main rendering tools on an image. The process felt very familiar and similar to how I once did my traditional printmaking. Years ago, I creates textures and tone in my etching plates, layered a dark aquatint over the plate and then burnished out my highlights from the dark values to form images. This Photoshop technique gives that same silvery quality I liked - very similiar to a mezzotint.

This creature above is basically Brian's design from the tutorial. I just redrew it and added some of my own touches. I enjoy this process of working. It is a lot like discovering organic forms in clouds or in the random pebble design pattern on my bathroom's linoleum floor.

How about a Breck shampoo ad for the zombie market?