So another New Year happened...(updated 2/6)
11 months ago
General
Any earthshaking changes in my routine?
Nah. I'm still catching up with the existing routine.
So what's relevant to folks here? Art stuff. (some minor edits in Feb)
Commissions:
--Currently I have two to finish off. One is a five-page image sequence that I'm making decent progress on, and the other is...a bit challenging as to layout and perspective, but I think I'll be able to push ahead with it once the multi-pager is done. As usual, I don't solicit commissions outright since:
(A) I don't depend on them to make ends meet, and
(B) I don't like to stack more than two of them in queue. But I'm at least willing to hear out commission proposals (to think about how I'd do them) till I'm ready to formally take them.
Personal Art:
--I've been allowing myself to do impromptu sketches here and there when inspiration strikes (bear in mind I usually refrain from doing much "me for me" art when commissions are in-progress). One of these sketches became my most recent upload, "Mis Directed". Which became noteworthy for an unexpected reason:
--Wow, that pic has picked up a thousand views in a month. That just doesn't happen on my gallery. Especially a G-rated pic. Nothing of mine has ever accumulated anywhere near that many views in that short of a time. One potential reason was pointed out to me about four days after I uploaded it, was that the pic was reposted to e621, although it has a couple of things working against it getting much of any traffic on that platform, not the least of it being it's not Explicit, and it's a pencil-ish sketch of a niche subject matter. What kind of views its getting there, I don't know since view counts aren't displayed, only favorites (of which this one has13 15 as of this writing),
--While examining this pic on e621, I found there are eight other pics of mine reposted there, the oldest of which is Administrator at Work which has been there for 15 years, old enough to have possibly been sourced from my presence on VCL. While I have toured e621 many a time for "reference material", I've never thought to look up my name there since I'm not known for NSFW art and therefore nobody would bother reposting any of my stuff there (being I have 800+ uploads here and only nine pics have been reposted there seems to confirm this) till I was told about "Mis-Directed" appearing there. Then again, I haven't drawn enough NSFW work to get noticed by anyone who routinely reposts stuff there. Maybe that'll change once my new OC's make their formal debut and establish their personalities.
--Another sketch I've done behind the scenes depicts the event in "Mis-Directed" but about a half-minute later, but I'll wait till the current commission is posted to upload it. Given the success of the first pic, maybe I'll flesh out the entire story as a short-form comic like "Mudlark Mentor".
Tech:
Nothing much to report here. After I found that Micrografx Picture Publisher no longer displays images properly after I upgraded my primary laptop to Win10 from Win7. Since then I found that despite its scrambled display it will export it's native file format (.pp5) files as .PSD with layers intact and readable by Clip Studio. This means I'll have to embark on a project to export .PSD's of all my multi-layer Picture Publisher projects to ensure they remain editable in Clip Studio. Given this encompasses most of my work prior to adopting Krita (and CSP) into my workflow, this is going to be a drawn-out preservation effort updating dozens of project archives duplicated across three backup drives, and the thumb drives various projects lived on while they were WIP.
--Right about now I could find a NAS to be really useful, but they're expen$$ive, and I don't know enough about configuring storage pools and RAIDs on them, much less on-board applications for stuff like media streaming (Jellyfin because it's free), transcoding and such.
--Got me a retro game console (Abernic RG406V), but the Aliexpress vendor left out the game card I ordered with it (I let them know about the omission and they sent one out a couple of days later. A backup copy of it (since the micro SD cards they use typically have short lifespans) now resides in my unit and I've managed to play a few games on it. I have leads for roms and console BIOS files not included on the card (not all possible systems have emulators pre-loaded), but now that I have it, it'll take a bit of time to add more to it.
Nah. I'm still catching up with the existing routine.
So what's relevant to folks here? Art stuff. (some minor edits in Feb)
Commissions:
--Currently I have two to finish off. One is a five-page image sequence that I'm making decent progress on, and the other is...a bit challenging as to layout and perspective, but I think I'll be able to push ahead with it once the multi-pager is done. As usual, I don't solicit commissions outright since:
(A) I don't depend on them to make ends meet, and
(B) I don't like to stack more than two of them in queue. But I'm at least willing to hear out commission proposals (to think about how I'd do them) till I'm ready to formally take them.
Personal Art:
--I've been allowing myself to do impromptu sketches here and there when inspiration strikes (bear in mind I usually refrain from doing much "me for me" art when commissions are in-progress). One of these sketches became my most recent upload, "Mis Directed". Which became noteworthy for an unexpected reason:
--Wow, that pic has picked up a thousand views in a month. That just doesn't happen on my gallery. Especially a G-rated pic. Nothing of mine has ever accumulated anywhere near that many views in that short of a time. One potential reason was pointed out to me about four days after I uploaded it, was that the pic was reposted to e621, although it has a couple of things working against it getting much of any traffic on that platform, not the least of it being it's not Explicit, and it's a pencil-ish sketch of a niche subject matter. What kind of views its getting there, I don't know since view counts aren't displayed, only favorites (of which this one has
--While examining this pic on e621, I found there are eight other pics of mine reposted there, the oldest of which is Administrator at Work which has been there for 15 years, old enough to have possibly been sourced from my presence on VCL. While I have toured e621 many a time for "reference material", I've never thought to look up my name there since I'm not known for NSFW art and therefore nobody would bother reposting any of my stuff there (being I have 800+ uploads here and only nine pics have been reposted there seems to confirm this) till I was told about "Mis-Directed" appearing there. Then again, I haven't drawn enough NSFW work to get noticed by anyone who routinely reposts stuff there. Maybe that'll change once my new OC's make their formal debut and establish their personalities.
--Another sketch I've done behind the scenes depicts the event in "Mis-Directed" but about a half-minute later, but I'll wait till the current commission is posted to upload it. Given the success of the first pic, maybe I'll flesh out the entire story as a short-form comic like "Mudlark Mentor".
Tech:
Nothing much to report here. After I found that Micrografx Picture Publisher no longer displays images properly after I upgraded my primary laptop to Win10 from Win7. Since then I found that despite its scrambled display it will export it's native file format (.pp5) files as .PSD with layers intact and readable by Clip Studio. This means I'll have to embark on a project to export .PSD's of all my multi-layer Picture Publisher projects to ensure they remain editable in Clip Studio. Given this encompasses most of my work prior to adopting Krita (and CSP) into my workflow, this is going to be a drawn-out preservation effort updating dozens of project archives duplicated across three backup drives, and the thumb drives various projects lived on while they were WIP.
--Right about now I could find a NAS to be really useful, but they're expen$$ive, and I don't know enough about configuring storage pools and RAIDs on them, much less on-board applications for stuff like media streaming (Jellyfin because it's free), transcoding and such.
--Got me a retro game console (Abernic RG406V), but the Aliexpress vendor left out the game card I ordered with it (I let them know about the omission and they sent one out a couple of days later. A backup copy of it (since the micro SD cards they use typically have short lifespans) now resides in my unit and I've managed to play a few games on it. I have leads for roms and console BIOS files not included on the card (not all possible systems have emulators pre-loaded), but now that I have it, it'll take a bit of time to add more to it.
Kritterfox
~kritterfox
Happy new Year Rail, may this year be full of some amazing projects and art goodness :3
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