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First of all, sorry for the lack of activity. Birthday happened and... well, let's just say I couldn't celebrate it the way I wanted to. Or even live the way I wanted to for a while. I'm still trying to recover from it (the novel I got recently helps), but I don't think I'll have much to post until next week (or maybe sometime this week, if the stars align themselves perfectly).
Secondly, there seems to be a purge happening on tumblr. Lots of conspiracy theories abound, but the most p...
2018-11-19 20:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostStill unsure as to the cause (Tumblr rumors claim it's because the company moved to the UK or something, others claim it's a Patreon bug), but if you used your card to pledge here or for any other account, it may have been declined. If that includes you and you're reading this before Patreon forces an auto-unfollow, try with another payment method or contact the bank your card belongs to and check if the payment was marked as fraudulent. If it was, simply clarifying that it's legit and ...
2018-08-02 15:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostDue to caffeine tolerance getting to a point where four cups of coffee did nothing but make my chest feel a bit tight, I decided to take some time to wean myself from the stuff. This isn't me announcing the intent now, btw—I already started doing this over a week ago.
I spent more time asleep than awake during the past month, so I kinda needed to do this. Hell, I needed to do this while the blackout was still going on; instead, I just kept drowning my systems with coffee just becaus...
2018-05-21 23:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostBrigades started work on my neighborhood and have drilled a hole for the replacement pole that's going in the neighbor's backyard. Looking like we'll have electricity sometime on early April, which is good 'cause it's been over half a year since the power was knocked down and I was starting to get pretty angry at the fact.
2018-03-27 17:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a bottle of acrylic ink from the art store 'cause it was cheap and I wanted to see if I could use it for the crow quill whenever India ink wasn't available. So far it has its quirks and I much prefer India ink but it's a good enough substitute in a pinch.
2018-03-19 19:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostDue to troubles with some of the family (namely me having to cut off certain members because they're total assholes) I won't have access to the hotspot anymore. This means no streams until the lights come back and periods of not being able to go online at the end of each month (phone has a data cap of 5GB and I listen to a lot of podcasts). I gave USB tethering a shot but it was so horrendously-slow compared to using the phone itself that it wasn't worth it. So... yeah. Less communication for a...
2018-02-05 16:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostRelevant link: https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/ Carry on, yo.
2017-12-13 18:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo Patreon's gonna change fees so they affect patrons instead of creators. Kind of a shit move, tbh, but other creators have gone to great details as to why it's a shit move so most of you probably already have a good idea about what's going on. All that's left to see is if they reverse the decision on account of so many creators losing so many patrons 'cause of this (I haven't yet, but if any of you choose to remove their pledge because of the fees I completely understand). So. Alternatives. '...
2017-12-08 00:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere is none. Surrounding areas have power but this neighborhood still hasn't been fixed. Power cables and downed posts still adorn the backyards. At this point I'll be content with not having to spend Christmas in the dark. But yeah, this is gonna go on for a long while. Because Puerto Rico. Yeah.
2017-11-25 21:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostUsing a family member's phone to type. It's been three weeks since the hurricane and I couldn't find a place with any kind of internet until now.
Dunno when I'll be back. Rumors say by the end of the week but that depends on people not being asses and destroying towers for the hell of it. Again.
I'll post pics once my cellphone has internet (different provider).
2017-10-11 16:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting yet another hurricane in this area (namely María), except this time it's gonna be a direct hit. If all goes well I'll be finishing and uploading an ink wash painting within the night (preview here), but after that I can't guarantee that I'll be back online until next week. Keep in mind, Irma knocked out power in this area for a couple days, and that was from winds at tropical storm ...
2017-09-18 23:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Quickie done during the last stream to de-stress. Mostly doodling, as far as the hair is concerned.
Anyway. Hurricane Irma is hitting the island today, which means chances are I'll be going offline for a while. And by a while, I mean anywhere between a couple days to several weeks. So apologies for the lack of activity in the meantime.
Remember, people: Never move to Puerto Rico if you can help it.
2017-09-06 09:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostMultiple things to go through, but I'll make it brief. Shouldn't take too long.
1. Rig is now stable. Or at least seemingly-stable. It's been close to a month since the last crash so I'm gonna assume so.
2. Gonna work on a more stable stream schedule. Now that I have a working rig I can do this without any crash-related paranoia, so once I figure out something that's manageable for me and have managed to follow through long enough, I'll let you all know....
2017-08-24 06:47:07 +0000 UTC View PostTwo important updates this time. I'll make this quick.
Based on these past days, we now have a semi-stable schedule regarding streams: They will happen every night except (most) Wednesdays and Saturdays. This, of course, means there'll be a stream within the night so look forward to that (no commission work, though—just gonna ink and possibly color a Princess Bubblegum warm-up I did last stream).
Also, due to a sudden Tumblr update policy, the blog will no long...
2017-06-21 04:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostA heads-up for those still watching this space: Tomorrow night I’ll try to do a stream. It should start at around 10:30 PM AST, though in reality it’ll probably be a bit later, depending on how long it takes before grandma goes to sleep (because privacy issues are the reason I’m nocturnal in the first place).
Pic will be an owed commission—depending on how I feel about the now-months-old sketch I’ll either edit it a tad or redraw it completel...
2017-06-16 07:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently there are some stability issues with the new rig, all related to the motherboard's current BIOS (apparently when I chose the RAM I picked something with speeds that were unsupported). I'm tweaking the settings to see if I can get it to work alright, but I'm still dealing with random reboots every once in a while.
I'm testing something new at the moment and if everything's stable I'll stream this weekend. If not, I'll have to wait until the next BIOS update (checking the MSI forums an...
2017-06-01 08:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It has issues with remaining stable during high heat/humidity situations (which makes it unusable on most days and some nights), but it's finally here! Just need to unrust a tad and the streams will resume.
Why do I need to unrust, you ask? Because I ran out of sketchbook pages a long while ago and was unable to draw for weeks. I can barely getn anything to look right at the moment. :V
2017-05-17 20:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a month-long rollercoaster of emotions caused by Amazon-related shipping delays, I finally have everything needed to build the new rig. Part of the arrangement was that I'd build it in front of a family member so they'd know how to build their own, though, so it won't actually be functional until Sunday.
[EDIT: Family member has Friday off so we're building it then instead]
Safe to say this stupid-long hiatus will finally be over by next week. I'll post one final u...
2017-05-11 00:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe graphics card has yet to arrive in the mail. It is now over a week late and I doubt it'll be arriving tomorrow due to an island-wide protest that's probably gonna bring everything to a standstill all day.
That is the only part that's missing right now. Once it gets here the rig can be built. Apologies for the added delay but this one's out of my hands and in those of UPS.
2017-05-01 02:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlmost all of the rig pieces have arrived—all that's missing are the motherboard, the graphics card and the hard drive. Everything should be arriving within the week or the next (hopefully the former), so proper updates are expected to resume soon.
Once it's built and I've made sure it's stable/work-ready I'll finally return to streaming. Once again, sorry for all the delays and lack of content—everything will be back to normal within the month.
As for what to expect: ...
2017-04-18 00:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostParts for the new rig will be ordered on Saturday, so this content drought should finally be ending soon. Apologies for the lack of pics, everyone, and here's to everything going back to normal in the coming weeks.
2017-03-30 22:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Note to self: Do not ink before bed. Never ink before bed.
2017-02-02 08:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on a DIscord bot I'm working on for a group chat.
2016-12-25 23:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Need to work on making my lines clean again, but it feels good to do this again. Only issue I have is with trying to do the lines where I want them atop the kinda-dark pencil lines.
I need a light box. Or at the very least, an eraser (the threshold function in Krita and Gimp can only do so much).
Anyway, expect more pen stuff in the future. Hoping to get my lines to a state where I don't have to do much digital clean-up like I had to many years back (at the very least, I now know how...
2016-10-13 22:33:31 +0000 UTC View PostJust a list of stuff I need to work on for when I use tones next time.
A long while ago, on a Tumblr post that I'm too lazy to hunt down, I mentioned that I was gonna make a custom set of MyPaint brushes and upload them for other people to use. Reason for this is that, while I find the default sketching brushes to be excellent enough to outright spoil me (to the point where I'm still trying to adjust to Krita), the painting and inking brushes just didn't match my style and preferences.
While I ha...
2016-07-26 07:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Superficially, she serves as an example of the alvaji as a
whole: Pansexual, hypersexual and with a much higher than average chance
of being transgender compared to the other first-gen species (a
whopping 45 percent, though only two percent of them choose to alter
their genitalia). What makes her stand out, however, is her
unusually-high magical aptitude and thirst for knowledge - probably why
s...
2016-07-16 07:36:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't think about this until now, so I have to ask: Do the pics in each post load in a timely manner or does it takes a crapton of time due to the pics' file sizes? I use the original files as the post images so you can just right click/save from there and they scale nicely and all, but I've no idea if it gives any of you any issues.
If they do, let me know and I can just post the hi-res images as attachments and use a slightly-lower-res image for the post itself. Otherwise I...
2016-04-14 03:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostPardon the lack of image for this post, but I haven't been able to draw much lately.
For those of you unaware, I've been dealing with a congestion-turned-bronchitis for several weeks now. The congestion itself prevented me from drawing much since I didn't want to cover the sketchbook or Cintiq in snot (I was sneezing a lot), while the bronchitis left me with what felt like a pulled muscle on the back (lots of pain, basically, even after the lungs started healing). Antibiotics and Si...
2016-03-01 02:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post