Thank you @Rich Green! Good luck on your portfolio review too!

Welcome Lindsey! I look forward to seeing your work. : )

@audrey-dowling and @Jana Thank you, very much!
Rodentia changed a bit since 2013, but I'm pretty happy with what I have in mind right now, that is a mix between the past two years. 🙂
But, I'll definitely stay tuned for this storytelling class. That really might be just what I need to take Rodentia to the world outside.

Thanks for taking a look at my stuff!

Welcome and nice to meet you!

This is a great forum and group of folks! Welcome!

Welcome aboard!

Hi!
Looking forward to see the paintings for your book! This is great place to get critiques, and practice by doing monthly thursday challenges.

lol nice one!

Welcome aboard.

@Aaron Thank you so much! And @DanetteDraws thanks for the humorous pic!!

Thanks Carey, I will try jumping in with both feet 🙂

Thanks Kevin. Pop-up pages are easier for me because designing composition is too scary and difficult at this point. Hopefully I will beat that. 🙂

Hallo Welkom! Greetings from the Netherlands!

None of that is boring stuff! I was in a 17+ year career that promoted me away from anything artistic and creative. After our office was downsized and closed I decided to make the transition back towards the creative and have been doing anything and everything I can to make a career of it. And part of that is always trying to learn and improve my skills. The folks here on these forums are all so supportive and helpful with that and you will find this to be a great place! Welcome!

@Carey-Bowden Thanks! I am slowly working my way through the fundamentals series.

Welcome 👋😊

Hey Jiri!
Huge Congratulations on the 3rd Thursday piece

As to Photoshop - i heard something a while back that Adobe had made one of their earlier versions all legally free. I think it was CS2.

Wait... after a bit of research - yep. they made it free by discontinuing the license server and tech help.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-get-photoshop-for-free/

Hope that helps!

@Sarah-LuAnn thankyou, I'm hoping it won't be too hard 🙂

@Lauren-M. Wow, thank you so much! I love the links you provided - great resources, I'm adding some to my bookmarks right now!

Looking forward to your course Lee!

@Sarah-LuAnn Hi Sarah! OA Live is great and very in depth, with some brilliant resources and interviews with industry professionals. It's definitely worth the sign-up and will do wonders for how you think about story and theme in your work. Hope you join!

Paperwings is awesome, as are all of Chris Oatley's Artcasts. I'm going to be on one of them soon as he interviewed a load of us 'first wave' OA Live students which was a blast 🙂