Howdy all, apologies for lack of my presence on the forum.

I'm not dead just been beavering away on painter - which i've newly discovered :) So I'm working on building up a portfolio & i've set up a site (thanks to deviant art) & i was going to add this pic to my list of character designs. There are 2 versions - one for the main page which will have my name etc on it & the other will feature in the gallery itself.

 At first painter felt so alien but i realised I just have to pretend its like real paint & viola! something good came out. But now I have to go into photoshop mode or painter mode when doing pics :P stupid brain! Still doing work in both programs is great.

so the first is a full colour pic that is going to be in the main gallery. Hes a lightning  sprite. was going to be yellow but i thought that would be far to Pikachu, so i thought making him the colour of thunder clouds would look awesome.