collage vs photoshop

i completed these illustrations a while ago with a view to getting a publisher to buy the license on them but they never got sent out. they took so long and i got so attached to them that i just put them away in my portfolio and looked at them occasionally.
this is when the great photoshop or not debate hits me. these drawings were first sketched, then traced and duplicated. then coloured with watercolours and inks. this was a long process as to get the right tones, lots of layers of colour was needed. then she was cut out and laid on a piece of (in this case) leopard print paper. The leopard print background is a photocopy of a piece of fabric that i hand painted with inks to achieve the texture and colour variation that i wanted. i find the thing i 'm not keen on for my illustrations is the flatness that photoshop can create. i prefer the realness of a collage......but just think how much simpler these girls would have been if i hadn't been so bloody stubborn!





i still really like them and now i've freed them from the portfolio i might frame them and let them belong in my flat where they can be seen.
or maybe i'll put them away again!