I start my illustrations by first having a rough concept of what I want to portray. A story line evolves and rough sketches bring the composition together. I use Poser and Daz to get the characters developed then place them in a 2D environment. My work is usually a large format and saved on a flash drive. All of my detailing is done with an old Micrografx program I am fond of. Over the years I have made my own brushes for working in skin textures and developed techniques with layering to get the effects I want. Recently acquired Adobe Photoshop and I'm exploring the attributes of this current platform.