Sea Creature done in Open Canvas 5.5 RC4

Testing out the new version of Open Canvas...pretty cool software for a great price.

K'naan

Was pretty into K'naan a couple years back when he came out with his big single  When I Get Older.

I Did this piece back then when I decided to stop bootlegging software and was using GIMP because I couldn't afford Photoshop at the time.

I found out that GIMP does some stuff pretty well and offers a pretty good amount of control over key mapping some of the more advanced brush features like rotation and aspect ratio which I thought was pretty cool.  Also, it can do image hose brushes and animated brushes which Photoshop can't do.

My time with GIMP was short lived though because shortly after I began beta testing TVPaint for linux which completely blew my mind and I now use it more than Photoshop for painting, drawing and animating.  But I'll discuss TVPaint more in depth another day.

Take care,

Gavin