Coloring practice with etching.

So, this coloring practice with photoshop is all I did on Friday, practically my last day of spring break, other than cleaning, grocery shopping and laundry before I go back to normal. (Oh, I did watch a movie, too! Slumdog millionair, and I watched Coraline yesterday! Surprisingly better than I expected. I have to admit that I had a prejudice towards a movie which based on a book.)

Anyway, the point is that, I gave it a try to color my etching piece with photoshop. I always wanted to add more vibrant colors to my etching pieces even though I love the deep mono tone of etcihngs. Sometimes I can add spot colors with hand blend when I print, but it wasn't enough, I felt. So I scanned this in and tried to color in photoshop. This is what I always thought of trying, but never actually got into. I tried before couple of times, but always stopped in the middle, being bored of tedious process of selecting and paintbucketing the pieces. Today, I decided to at least finish and see the final. I didn't want to go into every details which isn't my cup of tea, I wanted to keep it quite simple.

Result, I kind of like it. But feel like it actually doesn't need to be an etching after finishing up the coloring. It could be just pen drawing and coloring and it would look just same. Then what is the point of going through all those process of etching anyway? I definitely love the process of etching and its effect and look. But if I'm going to color in photoshop afterwards, what would be the point.

That I can't answer right now. My head aches after these hours of staring at the computer screen. This is one thing about photoshop coloring. I less enjoy doing this process in computer than with actual paints, brushes, and every thing in my hand.

Oh, well.