I truly feel as though part of my soul were ripped out and eaten. I have been working for hours on a digital painting for a contest on DA along with my other commissions and projects, just to see something I've done, that I was really proud of and was a lot more detailed. Tonight when I got home from work the file was completely corrupted. Everything i have done is gone. It just comes up as a flattened black layer. I have cried a lot. It feels like someone died. It was sort of a scary fantasy picture, but no matter the content I was proud of it, and even my mate really liked it, and he is picky. He has surprisingly been very supportive through this, but I just feel heartbroken. Luckily there was some very crappy pixely film of it up on my livestream as I worked on some of it live. Unfortunately the quality was awful, and I had a lot more done on it that I did while at work the past couple of days, but at least I can piece together the few pixely crappy images screen grabbed from my livestream, and try to paint over it. I am pretty much going to have to do it from scratch, but at least now I still have some guidelines. I guess it could be worse to wear I would have NO proof or anything of my piece. I still feel really sad though. I can't stop obsessing and wanting to work on it to get it back to wear it was. Hopefully it will be even better this time around... I may livestream a commission tonight, or at least livestream as I doctor the shambles and remnants of my painting. It really depends though...