My hat is better than yours

Well, this is a trusty mixture of Photoshop , Corel Painter Essentials (which has a nifty woodcut tool), and Ultrafractal 4.0 for the swirly bits in the background.
I have to leave, the laptop is at boiling point...a pity because I am listening to "Mystic's Dream" by Loreena McKennitt. Nothing like music to get ya drawing eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIghrxxhQYs

Crusader

Virtually at a standstill with the blazing heat...Massive drawing block so this is an old one touched up. I cannot even play a simple scale. Woe.

Gene Ween sings "White Christmas"

Pit stop in shut eye town

Ouf! Plof! 44 degrees in the centre of Spain so back in Shut Eye Town for now. New set of baking tourists in town, mainly French at this time of year.
One aubergine growing, many tomatoes, some odd gourds, no sign of grapefruit. Frankly too hot to do anything useful. The invisible wife is still next door...groan.

Wolves I have howled with

I remain stuck in Shuteye Town until I escape the dentist. Not long now...

Birdbath

Dragged back to reality for a week or two. Here's a few creatures I have spotted recently. Trial version of Adobe illustrator CS6.