The doodle above is for Illustration Friday. This week's topic: "Broken."

I created it in Corel Painter 8 and used the Croquil Pen and Fine Round Gouache brushes. First I did the drawing in black with the Croquil, created another layer in Painter, chose "Multiply" in the new Layer so that I don't wipe out the drawing when I colour, then added colour using Gouache.

I've never used gouache paint in real life so I have no idea how closely the virtual Gouache brush mimics the real thing, but I do know that I would never be able to play around with all these different types of media so easily if it wasn't for Corel Painter...the expense of the materials, the smell (in my basement enclosed office) and the mess would keep me from experimenting.

Here's one from the archives, that I did for Illustration Friday at the beginning of the year when the topic was "Sorrow":

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