I have to cover some things relating to the website, so this post will mainly consist of metawankery.

1. My hosting plan runs out at the end of february. I think I’ll have enough to pay for another year, but I’m not sure til the time comes along.
2. I don’t really like the format of the site. I want to keep a personal blog, but I would also like a place to showcase my artwork and other more worthy topics. I’ll probebly end up branching into two different blogs.
3. The blogging software I use, Wordpress, has just undergone a major update. For me to update the site would be a major undertaking, but it’s something I want to do. This will probebly involve a redesign, which is always fun.
4. Happy New Year!

I’ve been feeling a bit down lately, so I decided break out Photoshop and do some digital colouring to cheer me up. I wanted to choose something simple, so I decided to do a piece by Fred Gallagher (of Megatokyo fame):

Original black and white lineart by Fred Gallagher.
Click for larger version.

And here are my coloured versions:

Work-in-Progress snapshot. Here I have the base colours layed down under the line art.

This is the final shaded version.

I’d really like to hear what you all think of this. It isn’t my best colour ever, but then again it only took me about an hour from start to finish, so I think it turned out pretty well.