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Last Friday was the worst day I've had in this hobby... let me break it down
I spent almost 4 hours on a digital painting of a sunset over a lake, trying to get the colors just right. Then my stylus battery died at 95% completion and I lost the whole file because autosave wasn't on. On the flip side, I had a day last month where everything clicked... I finished a portrait in under 2 hours and got 15 likes on the showcase thread within an hour. Which kind of day teaches you more, the total disaster or the smooth win?
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ivanb413mo ago
Man, dead stylus batteries are like the universe's way of telling me to go touch grass for five minutes. But honestly, that disaster day taught me way more than the smooth win ever did - I learned to manually save every 15 minutes like my life depends on it, and to keep a backup stylus in my desk drawer. The win just made me feel good for an hour, then I forgot about it. That crash course in file management though? Now I save like a paranoid squirrel.
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green.jessica3mo ago
...and honestly, I'd count dead stylus batteries as a character builder for sure. I've had that exact thing happen in the middle of a client meeting, where I'm nodding along like everything's fine while frantically trying to find my backup stylus in a bag of chaos. Now I keep a cheap pack of batteries in my laptop case and one in my car. That paranoid squirrel method is the only way to go - I set a timer on my phone every 15 minutes to hit save, and another one to check my stylus charge. Eventually you just accept that tech will fail you at the worst possible time, and the only real answer is to over-prepare like you're planning for a zombie apocalypse.
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