Brush Stroke Opacity and a Huge Fucking Hole

So after messing around with the inks I posted last time, I came to the conclusion that that was not the best image to start off with. Getting this new coloring technique to fit into small details is not an easy task, and something I need to work on. Another problem I was having was picking the color/s for the darker shading. In the "test" image I posted a few days ago, the darker color was just black, and the lighter white. I think that this is the way I need to go about it. I am also having a huge problem making things TOO dark (per usual). I'll work with it more today and post what I get. I have nothing else to do today, other than wait around for our maintenance guy to fix the huge fucking hole he put in our dining room ceiling.

Figure A; huge fucking hole,

Figure B; huge fucking hole detail,

I also messed with the design here a bit and added links to other blogs I read, as well as a new album.

U.N.K.L.E.'s Psyence Fiction is one of those albums that has stuck with me for years. No matter what the changes in my taste for music have been or what personal things I have been experiencing, this album is always right up there on top and very few other albums have I been that emotionally dedicated to. I haven't really downloaded a lot of music recently. I figured after filling up a 250G ext hardrive with mp3s on top of having over 5000 albums combined between Rachel and I, that I basically had enough music for a long long time. But I did end up hunting down an U.N.K.L.E torrent that was a 5 CD remix boxset, including Leonard Cohen (what the fuck?) remixes...so I couldn't really pass that up. I basically haven't listened to this much electronica/triphop/drum&bass/dubtone/non-ambient music since back in the "what do you mean Moby used to be punk?" days of highschool, going to SamGoody and Borders with Joey Weiser to buy (what we thought at the time to be) rare Aphex Twin and Death in Vegas.

In other news, I drove our car from Forest Park to our house (even turning into our death defying driveway) last night. For those of you who don't know, I don't have a driver's license and never have learned to drive (and yes, that means i purchased and own a car that i have never driven). So this is a monumental experience for me. And while it was pretty slow traffic due to it being Sunday night, it was still down fucking Delmar which is no picnic for anyone. Soon enough the planets will align and I will be getting a license, and the universe will be at peace once again. Hopefully this time I wont look like a child molester in my I.D. photo.