April 16, 2024 - Last month I shared some development work for a new illustration I have been working on called, "Eye of the Beholder."  I finished working on the image recently and today I'd like to share a few images from the process and talk through some of my approach to painting this one. Hopefully it will be of some use to you as you seek to avoid landmines, pitfalls, headaches, and accidently opening a gateway that lets demons into the world, while painting your own images.   For decades, when I have used photoshop to add color over a traditional drawing, I use the same laboriously methodical approach each time: Monochrome value painting, followed by transparent color application, followed by some harsh highlight work, all of which is finally blended together with opaque paint. It has a…