These last months I've been facing a ruthless batlle against an uncommon enemy...my own Tablet.

8 months ago, I bought it, with the help of my parents...I stayed insanely happy with that, for I was wishing one since I was 14years old and I said to myself that I would start a whole new level in my drawings. And so I did, without any problem...

...but it's been some 4 months that my Tablet started to show some annoying resolution bugs....the cursor 'jumps' in some columns, it pops somewhere else suddenly, this kind of stuff...not to mention that these malfunctions are not concentrated in a single section of the Tablet, they spread out through the entire workspace...so digital drawing has become for me more like a Tomb Raider or Indiana Jones puzzle...and it's very time and energy consuming, and mindblowing, in the worst of ways.

Then it came the contest...it was the perfect opportunity to increase my skills on digital painting, and (why not!?) to have a chance to win the Intuos 4...and I really did improve my skills, but my Tablet wasn't helping, at all. A friend of mine once said "a good artist don't care if he works with the best or the crap, he's good and that's it", so it was my motivation to not to care about the bugs...but when that crap turns crappier to finally become the crappiest, with tons and tons of works to come, this can be a problem.

That's why I'll stop digital drawings for a moment...and get into a "exile" for traditional drawings: learn as much as I can of perspective, atmospheric perspective, lighting (godrays, overlighting, underlighting, diffuse lighting), shading (position, diffuse shading, ambient occlusion), shapes and some other things...so when I'll have the right tools, I'll show be the closest I can get of my real level of portraying dreams.

I hope to keep deserving your views =]

Cheers to all!