Well, I got myself together and managed to submit my entry to the art contest. Barely. The hardest part, really, was smacking myself and saying, "Look, you. You're never going to like it better, just make sure it prints well and send it off. And then you can pretend you're accomplishing something."
It's hard to argue with that, though mostly because arguing with yourself gets you funny looks. When you do it out loud, anyway.
The print looks very different from the picture on the computer, not least because LCD screens are the opposite of awesome at displaying something that is anything like what will print, or even what other people with LCD screens will see. Nonetheless, I've made a variation of the file that approximates (at least on MY screen, everyone else is probably out of luck) what the picture looks like when printed.
I really feel like it approximates the sort of layering and color mixing I used to get with colored pencils.
