The One Where Photoshop saves you a bucket-load of time

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Today’s drawing shows Buddy Butterfly flying off to do something crazy and dangerous. As I drew the roof of the house I tried to draw shingles in a semi-realistic way. When I finished, I sat back and saw that the shingles running parallel to the bottom of the page looked static. Rather than redraw the page, I decided to change the roof in Photoshop by using the skew tool to create some diagonal perspective lines.

Skewing the layer added some interesting perspective, but it created another problem — I messed up Buddy’s body. I’m posting the two Photoshop layers I’ll be working on tomorrow. The slideshow shows the before and after skew problem that I’ll fix one way or another.