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Some of you have heard about this technique for checking the quality of a drawing, where you just mirror the image and it exaggerates certain flaws with the picture or something. Not sure how it works; maybe it's a psychological thing and it just overrides some sort of confirmation bias that makes artists think their own art doesn't suck by forcing them to see it from a fresh perspective. Anyway, I discovered this on my own one day way back when and correctly assumed that it meant I was doing something wrong. Never did get around to learning what I needed to do differently, but... well, another thing artists tell you is that if you draw enough, you'll just naturally get better even if you never actually learn any new techniques, like grinding in an RPG. Know what? It's true. Know how I know this? Stick one of my more recent pictures in front of a mirror and you'll see.
Is there a tool that can do this?
You know how there are programs that you can use to pose CGI people models for reference? Are there any that let you paint onto them? I've been thinking it would be handy for keeping the fur patterns on some of my characters consistent from one shot to the next as the camera angle and pose changes.
PSA: This site no longer cares about you.
So, after concluding after my last journal that the site has, indeed, been retoactively re-compressing all JPEG-formatted images for God knows what reason, I decided to look for ways to get in touch with the staff about it.
There aren't any.
Their entire help desk/support system has been completely wiped, and replaced with some third party garbage that directs all complaints to a "contact us" link that, when clicked, just crashes the tab. I know this site has been going downhill with its support for years now, but the Wix buyout seems to be the point where they just fired everyone and put up a brick wall between the users and the few humans
DA re-compressing files?
Has anyone else had this happen? I was looking at one of my recent pictures, and discovered that the version that shows up on the deviation page is way more artifacted than the copy on my computer. If I click the Download button I get the way it's supposed to look. It's not scaling it down or anything, so why would it be converting it to a smaller file?
Is DA going out of business?
Lately I've noticed that a lot of thumbnails won't load anymore, almost as if the servers they're hosted on have stopped working and never been replaced. It's really weird that a site this big and this... significant? ...would be letting something like that happen, and weirder that I haven't heard anyone else talking about it. But it's been like this for months now, and with the recent news that Twitter is struggling to stay in business and has shut down Vine as a cost-cutting measure, it's a possibility worth considering.
I've long thought that we're in for a second dot-com bubble burst one of these days, with so much of the Internet relyin
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It's something I learned recently. Ended up forcing me to go back and redraw some of the worst offenders in my comics.
Nowadays, I flip the paper on my lightbox before inking.
Nowadays, I flip the paper on my lightbox before inking.