Who is 'SeanE'? SeanE is Sean Ellery; a high school teacher of geography/socialstudies at Como Secondary College in Perth Western Australia. I'm also a husband, step-dad, and a guy with a hobby in colouring comic art which some people feel the need to occasionally pay me to do, but mostly it's just for me. How long have you been rendering/doing computer graphics? About two and a half years now. My first ever comic colourd pic was when I got an old copy of photoshop 4 and saw Penguin_Commando's pencilled Christmas elf here on Renderosity. I felt that I'd be able to colour it and so gave it a bash and have never looked back since. This elf pic is still in my renderosity gallery on the very last page. It took me about 6 hours all up and looks so pathetically bad now. :+) Do you have traditional art experience? I have always done art in some manner or kind. From making up the annual yearbook at highschool to just drawing for myself. I started to study art/design at Curtin university in 1986 but for various reasons the lecturers decided that I didn't have "it" and got quite upset when I confronted them about just what "It" might be....I left soon afterwards and never completed the course. Since then I suppose I've been subconsciuosly working to prove them wrong. Since people now want to offer me money to do this artwork I guess I might have finally done that. :+) What are you currently working on? I've just completed a commission piece for a Lecturer in Lismore TAFE New South Wales Australia of his 'Void!" character. It was drawn by Andie Tong and I was asked to colour it. The next project is another commission piece for David Rivera (The Samurai picture in my gallery was for him as well) and afer that I may get to do something just for fun again if nothing else comes up. What software/equipment do you use and why? I use photoshop 5.0 mostly and sometimes get my hands on a friend's copy of photoshop 7 to some assorted effects 5.0 won't handle. I can't afford the horrendous price Adobe want to charge to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop 7 etc for myself. What do you think your best piece of work is and why? The "Mexicali" picture which was drawn by a guy in Mexico who goes by the online name of "Elsevilla" I got the skintones just pefectly on that picture I feel. The "Cici" picture by Joe Benitez would run a close second to that one. Why do you like to work with 3D software? *laughs hysterically at the thought of being able to afford 3D software* - I have the free copy of Terragen but have no idea how to use it yet. Does anyone know of any tutorials out there? Who/what inspires you? I look at other comic artists artwork and try to work out how they did it. Steve Frichow would be a good example of this. How has this online community (Renderosity) enhanced your work, relationships, and learning? This is where it all started for me. I look at others comic colouring or just colour techniques in the 3D gallerys and try to get ideas from there. Supafly and Jtron here have been an immense inspiration for me and what I do. Parting Comments / Advice to other Artists? Practise, read the tuts online, and then practise some more. cheers Sean

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