Talk:Jane Hook/@comment-25234327-20130909085458/@comment-14800267-20131202035600

Comic art is my life. I have a studio, lightbox, reference library, tablet, custom built double screen computer, everything. The only thing that stops me doing it full time as my job is lack of recognition of comic art as a "serious" art form here in Australia and the fact it's horribly underpaid. I have to work shiftwork in the railways to accomodate it. Thankfully my station is only five minutes away from my apartment, and my Station Master has no issues with me drawing at work.

But yeah, photoshop is nasty to buy, it's expensive and surprisingly over complicated. Elements is useless for art, too (it used to be good, then Adobe figured out artists were their main market, not photo manipulators and removed most of the art tools from Elements). I was obscenely lucky, A close friend of mine is a teacher and the teacher/education edition is way cheaper, but you need a teaching licence to buy it... so she bought it with my money for me ;)