After watching the Ryan Church "Intro to Painter DVD", I decided to try out Painter and see if I can make it work for me. Painter has a tremendous amount of depth and the Ryan Church DVD was invaluable in giving me a good overview of how the program works.

This image is a very different approach for me since I'm used to tight line drawings rather than loose painterly stuff. However, I really enjoyed experimenting while creating the image below, my first value study completed with Painter.