Toph Heavy Part 3 - Page 21 - Final

So remember how I said that there were going to be two pages? Well, that's not happening. Photoshop crashed while I was saving page 22, and I lost a week's worth of rendering progress. I try to open the file and it says that it's not the right kind of document. It's just completely broken.

What I find especially infuriating, is that this is not the first time this has happened. It probably won't be the last.

Now, I want to nip a couple of things in the bud if you don't mind. First, I save often. In this instance, the file was corrupted while I was saving it. (I honestly think that's part of the reason why I'm upset tbh) I have looked through the temp files, and the recovery files, and what I did this week is gone.  Second, I am aware of all of the Photoshop alternatives. Many of them are great for illustration and are programs that I wouldn't have this problem with. However, the reason I don't switch is that they can't do the one thing that I use photoshop for. I test them all to see if they can, and they can't. If these alternatives ever do what I need them to do, I will drop Photoshop in a nanosecond. And it's something I'm always keeping my eye on. For now, I'm stuck with this program.

As for Page 22, I don't know if I'm going to do two pages next week or just one or if I'm going to take the next few days off for Christmas. I have to admit, I'm feeling a bit of burnout. Though that may be the fact that I haven't slept, and this bullshit just happened.

Man, I put the final touches on it tonight. I was an a roll. Shit was great... and this.

The thing is I'm probably going to have to redraw or change parts of Page 22 in order to be happy with it. Let me see if I can explain this; I was really happy with Page 22. I was really excited to show it to you. Rerendering that page would be frustrating because in my head I'd compare it to the version that just corrupted, the version I really liked. I have a method, but sometimes there are "happy accidents" happen that can't be replicated, and attempting to replicate them feels artificial. So now, as I reapproach page 22, the page has to be fundamentally different in some way in order to reach the same level of quality of the file that was corrupted because I will be forced to do something new, rather than replicate what's lost. I hope that makes sense.

Either way, once again, this week, I must apologize for the lack of Page 22.