#I am using Clip Studio PRO ;w;

[nymphrasis]

Hmmmm, wonder what I am working on :3c

[greybenjii]

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—— ˚₊‧꒰ა ⟡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ grey + greybie ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.• ☼ cancer ☽ cancer ↑ leo —— ˚₊ ‧₊˚ clip studio paint ⊹ ˚ procreate xp-pen artist 15.6 pro ⊹ ˚⟡.•* ipad air 10.6 —— ˚₊‧꒰ა ⟡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ short intro about me; my name is grey or greybie! i just wanna be silly and post my fanart/ my ocs and my new hyper fixations of the week! stick around for the madness :]

—— ˚₊ ‧₊˚ likes: anime (jjk, aot, spy x family, death note, evangelion, kill la kill, oshi no ko, erased, haikyuu, jojo's bizzare adventure, kakegurui, & more), gravity falls, genshin impact, welcome home, walten files, the mandela catalogue, overwatch, the last of us, the walking dead, avatar the last airbender, roblox, indie animation, alien stage, hazbin hotel, lackadaisy, kpop, nintendo/switch games, pokemon, art, music, fandoms, reading, spirituality, zodiac signs, quackity, jschlatt, markiplier, jacksepticeye, kwite, astralspiff, vtubers + more

dislikes:  hateful / problematic individuals (racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, zionist — just if you’re a shitty person at all, dni), bugs, ROACHES, the cold, problematic fandoms... ˚₊ ‧₊˚ boundaries and rules: 1. do not speculate on or search for my private info (name, location, etc). if i have not publicly revealed something, there is probably a reason. 2. please do not vent in my dms or anything! i am not anyone's personal therapist or your diary. it takes a toll on my own mental health. 3. i am okay with platonic shipping, "cute friends!" or "friendship goals!". however, i am not okay with romantic shipping between people and myself. jokes are okay, just don't take it too far. please do not assume or speculate on my romantic life and relationship. 4. lastly, please do not repost or use my artwork w/o permission. if you repost my work, you must credit me with @greybenjii.

BYF: i am twenty one, so i ask that no minors engage with my content or follow my blog. some things i post may be triggering / nsfw — i will have warnings in each post if that’s the case. —— ˚₊ ‧₊˚

if you read all of this, thank you and let’s be mutuals! 𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃

also, feel free to use my ask box whenever, whether it’s for my opinions on things, asking if we can be mutuals or whatever else you desire! :)

thank you for reading! -grey <3 MY BOUNDARIES FURTHER DISCUSSED

[batwynn]

Hey you! Are you new to art and feel uncomfortable asking questions about what tools people use to create art and/or have asked and been ignored or told off for it? Well, those people were jerks and you deserve answers. So, feel free to ask me! Anon or not. Whatever you’re comfortable with.

My artsy ‘resume’ is below, but I also am generally good at research so anything I don’t feel I know with confidence I can still help put together some info for you.

Art types that I have the most experienced with:

Comics- traditional and digital. including pencils, inks, colors, lettering (not my strongest), layout/printing, etc.

Illustration- different style types, including but not limited to: general illustration, book covers, children’s books, horror/graphic, etc.

Photography and photo editing- general, fantasy/art photography, portrait, animals, nature, etc.

Animation- mostly 2D and some 3D. Storyboarding/animatic/full projects, stop motion, voice acting (not my strongest), backgrounds/effects (not my strongest), props, etc.

Traditional arts: pencils, charcoal, oils, acrylic, watercolor, ink, printmaking (not my strongest, but I know a lot about it), figure study, still life, etc.

Printing/merch: sticker making at home and with pro printers, mugs, calendars, fabric printing, art prints, etc. Multiple merchants so just ask!

Tools:

Wacom Cintiq 16 (current)

(Have used a Wacom Intuos before)

iPad w pencil (current-she’s an older generation though)

Digital PC program experience:

Photoshop/After effects/Flash/Etc (until 2015 so not quite up to date on any major program changes after that, sorry!)

Clip Studio Paint- Pro and Ex (current)

GIMP- (current but I used it more before 2014ish)

Poser- (2020 right before the update. I had to get rid of it because the company that I bought it from sold the program to another company but didn’t include my key code anywhere so I basically got stolen from. Aye)

Apps:

Procreate-(current)

MediBang Paint-(current)

Other apps:

Picsart- (current)

CapCut- (current)

[roebeanstalk]

have you thought about a docked laptop setup? i have a lot of my own energy/disability issues and i'm looking into it for when i can upgrade. getting a good laptop that can do most things, but having the ability to dock it to an external gpu and a monitor setup when you want to do work or play big games at your desk is like. one of the better ways to get a split setup that lets you move to bed when you're low energy without much hassle

money's the main thang for sure. i have a solid desktop setup, so i don't really have to worry about performance or anything like that.

portability for digital art is a little tricky for me just 'cause i am very particular about how stuff feels. it's a sensory thing, and when it's off, drawing feels like 7000 pins in my wrist and arm (mentally) lol. so if my brain is in cintiq mode, it's wanting everything sensory about my cintiq - how it feels to push the pen on the screen, how much glide/friction there is, etc. also cursor/hover stuff, which doesn't exist on the ipad i have.

it also does not help that my cintiq is a 13hd, so it uses wacom's lovely (awful) 3-in-1 cable, which is already finicky enough without daisychaining usb/hdmi extenders lol

so usually i'll just swap to my ipad, if the sensory overlords deem it acceptable. anddd that brings up the other nested issue:

my ipad is a 6th gen ipad, the first non-pro one that can use the pencil. it's at the point where i can't have another app open while drawing whether it's clip studio or procreate. it's just old and i've used the hell out of it. it also doesn't support hover, so another sensory problem.

honestly if i could afford it, i'd probably just get the biggest, newest ipad pro. it has hover capability and would be comparable to my cintiq size wise. i could use this w/astropad and be able to hop to and from my desk without issue for the most part. also the novelty of a new toy could help push me through the adjustment period of getting used to going back and forth lol.

i'd be able to use it more dependably for drawing wherever, as well as serving most needs i'd want out of a laptop.

buuuut i am still in a perpetual state of not being able to afford my basics, let alone think about any technological upgrades/changes. sooo i just have to tell my autistic ass to calm down and wait it out, hopefully i can address it before i die!! :D

(ty for the suggestion btw!! i hope you find something that works for you, too!)

[diakamu]

what art program are you using? your art is gorgeous!

Aw thank you!! I only use Clip Studio Pro on my desktop PC (no EX. just CS Pro!). since i wasnt and am not too wealthy i never fancied the subscription model of anything so i dont have CS subscription or any of Adobe ;;w;; this CS Pro is the for-desktop (/not-for-tablet) one-off purchase one which was like approx.$45 back then? I’ve been using this for good 7years. Highly recommend. 

(and in case youre wondering, i use wacom drawing tablet, that is about $60. the basic one without a screen (not because it’s cheaper tho i think w/o-screen one is better suited for me, mainly concerning my horrible posture lol).)

[faerietrolls]

Do you have brush settings for your art/sketches? I really like your lines :0

Oh wow tumblr just now notified me of this ask! Anyways. I am at work atm, I use Clip Studio Pro. I do know that I got the two brushes I use for lines lately off the asset store or w/e it’s called. I’ll have to look at which ones.

One of them is real like translucent and lets me layer it real nice for like watercolor effects.

The color and lines were done by the same brush, the texture was made with a splatter brush.

I use this brush for my sketches mostly, this or the base mechanical pencil brush in CSP

[hntrgurl13]

Hello! I'm a fan of your work! I would like to ask, what software do you use to make the Hazbin Hotel art? (I am sorry if people have asked you this many times, and if you've answered this a while back, I am so sorry-)

I use Clip Studio Paint or MediBang Paint Pro (although it’ll be exclusively CSP bc my dog ate my iPad stylus so I am trapped w the laptop😢)

[awoken-artist]

Artwork is owned by @awoken-artist Kira is owned by Beartie Please don't resubmit/repost my works without my permission! thanks! 💚🍉💙 Team Sugar! 💙🍉💚 Speed Paint: coming soon!! Late post of posting this finally on my tumblr- but GOD im so proud of this piece-

My last ArtFight attack I did, sad i didnt get to all of the attacks I wanted to do but eh the months during the time that gave me time to do them, well..shitty drama happened. less motivated and such which im not happy about. since the drama finally is over..cause im not gonna sit 3-4 more years of that bs anymore, im tired of it, now i can resume without having that stress constantly. fuck the exfriend cause good god the drama was beyond petty and stupid. but now its finally over i am at least happy i did any pieces even this one which this one is my big fav piece I did for this year. 

hopefully 2021 artfight will be better ;w;

Anywhom i had alot of fun drawing Kira, and I really like his design just mysterious edgy man owo huhuhuhue >:3 no ones safe from me when it comes to Art Fight, imma just be honest about it.   Artwork owned by: @awoken-artist character Kira owned by: Beartie Programs used: Clip Studio Paint Pro

[rap1993]

I made this a while back, but I made another character for a Pathfinder game (it’s like DnD but a few things different lol)! Her name is Genevieve Willow and she’s a half elf Necromancer for a new campaign that just started! She has a more of a back story compared to my other character Arya (and more work to set up because of her being a wizard and having to set up spells), but I am pretty excited to play a wizard in this second campaign OvO . . ⭐️Program used: Clip Studio Paint Pro ⭐️Tablet: Apple iPad Pro 10.5in w/ 1st gen Apple Pencil . #art #draw #drawing #dnd #artistsofinstagram #artistsofinstagram #characterdesign #dungeonsanddragons #necromancer https://www.instagram.com/p/B8e7AYNJpha/?igshid=1utyxt1jlv6kv

[nymphrasis]

Update on Intro

Just wanted to give good news that I only have two pages to work on and then I can finally bring back @ask-the-abomination <3! I am really excited to bring these bois back, esp since a handful of the story was rebooted ( Some kept, some changed. I did felt like I rushed a bit for the beginning and a couple of things felt a lil off. Which admittedly, overtime, made me feel pushed away from the blog because of the pacing and that a few ideas didnt felt like it clash too well ;w; )!

BEANS BEANS BEANS!

I am doing my darnest to work on these <3! Admittedly I am having issues with my stylus. Well... I think the fault is the stylus? Since I try all else with Clip Studio PRO ( Even uninstall and reinstall the program ) and it doesnt seem like an issue, after doing tests on a different art program qwp. Basically lines are jittery when zoomed out, I have zero pen pressure, and I can no longer adjust lines on Vector layer because there is suddenly a billion things to select to move >>". I did had to grit my teeth and spend $15 to order a new stylus yesterday ( This was the final option. I didnt want to do the money route for this. A couple of friends in VC did heard my disappointment and unpleasantry towards this action >>" ). Just have to wait on that now ;;"... Jittering I can deal with, since all I have to do is zoom in to draw the lines normally ( I have grown use to zoom in drawing because of 8 years of Paint Tool SAI ). But pen pressure is a big deal, as I need it for sketching and lighting. Without it, things just come off as unappealing ;;"... I also need my vector adjustments too, as it helps me fix my lines ( Without it, I will have to draw slower and, as it is happening now, have to keep lining until it looks less bumpy ;; ). Having too much to select because my stylus(?) is acting up is really not good. As a friend pointed out: "Gee this year is really not being good towards you with technology problems" xd. First computer problems a few months back, now possibly my stylus with art ;-;.

But to change to something nicer, the emotes above was done on SAI back in February ( Months prior, before I made the move to Clip Studio PRO ) ;w;. So the line and coloring a lil different >w<. It is fine as both styles are something I am proud of <3!

[damn-the-dark]

FAQ

Mobile friendly! :D Just some trends I noticed in my ask box, I figured I could sum up a few things and give some general info! This post will be updated occasionally as new info is needed! 

What do you draw with/on?

I have two set-ups :3 I primarily use my iPad Pro (the newer model, 2018 I think) and the app Procreate, especially because it’s surprisingly powerful for being a mobile program! But if I need to work on really big canvases (body pillows, large format prints etc.) I have at home an HP desktop with a Huion KAMVAS 22 drawing monitor and Clip Studio Paint & Paint Tool SAI. The huion ran me about 900$ but there are smaller versions that are much more cost effective :D and it performs as well if not better that the cintiq I had prior! Also! Both Clip and SAI are only 50$ but if you catch Clip on sale it’s only 25$!!

How are you so good at art???

Aw geez I’m not good at answering this ;w; I’m going to preface this by saying the ‘goodness’ of art is arbitrary and often formed from the western ideal that good art is how well you can capture reality. This isn’t inherently true, in my eyes art is good when it establishes a connection between the artist and the viewer, everyone has different tastes than the next person so different art will resonate with them while with others it won’t.

That said I did spend all my life drawing, it was fun for me to be able to appreciate things I liked by drawing them! I landed in art school and spent 6 years getting my bachelor’s degree in illustration, however I’ll say that the only thing beneficial I got out of it were the figure drawing classes and even then, drawing a figure over and over means nothing without understanding the anatomy underneath it |D (I recommend this book even for 2-D artists because it covers the topic so well) Of course this only applies if your art is representative in some way, cartoons are even improved by a general understanding of anatomy!

In short just keep learning! You’ll never stop! You will improve! You Have No Choice :)))

Do you take commissions?

I take commissions from time to time, the best way to find out if I’m available is to ask! Feel free to DM me, I’m Soft and cry every time someone wants to get a drawing done by me ;w;

My current rates are:

40$ Icon/Headshot (comes fully colored + shaded)

60$ Half-Body Lineart

70$ Half-Body Color and Shading

85$ Full-Body Lineart

100$ Full-Body Color and Shading

Ref Sheets start at 150$

Example sheet can be found here :3 Additional characters are +50% of the base price, all commissions come with a simple or transparent background, it is +50% of the base price for a complex bg. Complex characters (armor, scales, detailed/patterned clothes etc.) are subject to a maximum +20% complexity fee of the base price. By contacting me for a commission, you agree to my TOS.

And just to address the inevitable: Your prices are so high!!

I didn’t spend 6 years and 60,000$ on art school to hear that my cheaply priced skilled labor is too expensive. Any freelance artist with my level of experience charges a day rate of at least 250$ multiplied by as many days as it takes them to complete the art. Please do us both a favor and instead of complaining an artist’s prices are high, maybe appreciate their work in other ways, leave them a tip or reblog their work. It goes much farther AND we will appreciate it very much!!

How come it takes you so long to reply?/ Why are you so sporadically active?

As an adult, currently employed, I tend to have rather busy days during the week. It really depends on how much a toll work takes whether I have the energy to respond to things qwq And like... I don’t like to bring it up much, but unfortunately I have contracted a cocktail of mental illness that effects my ability to interact with others. I promise I respond as soon as I am mentally able, and I am always appreciate the patience that everyone extends me on account of this ;;;;w;;;; Also I’m in the mysterious and feared ‘Arizona’ Time zone (we don’t do daylight savings time so we just end up bouncing back and forth between Pacific and Mountain time lmao) so depending on the time of year that can probably effect when you see me online |DD

I unfortunately can’t reply to everyone in my notes due to the sheer volume of them, BUT do know I absolutely read all tags and comments and they mean so fucking much to me ;;;;w;;;; Thank you for your kind words and above all Thank you for your understanding!! ❤ ❤

Do you take requests?

In a word; kinda |D I tried to have an Open/Closed system but people would send them regardless. I don’t mind! I like reading what people come up with but unfortunately I can’t draw them all, and I appreciate those so far who seem to understand this and don’t spam me with tons of requests ^w^)/ Thanks you guys!! This fandom is one of the most appreciative and courteous ones I’ve had the pleasure of being a part of! ;w;  ❤ 

[janishacolors]

Janishacolors About the Artist FAQ!

So I’ve decided to dedicate my Sundays to writing about all kinds of things

And what way to start it off by introducing myself with and giving an FAQ Pictures Included X3

Q.How do you pronounce your LAST Name

A. Ocaña is pronounced O-Kahn-Yah. The n has a tilde (squiggle) over it and makes it sound like “piñata” owob

Q. Where can I find you on social media?

A. You can find me most places under Janishacolors X3

Instagram \ Twitter \ YouTube \ Facebook \ Twitch

Q. Do you take commissions

A. Absolutely! If you’re curious about commission please feel free to message me!

Q. Favorite Fandoms and Things

Games: Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Phantasy Star Series, Miitopia ( the most hilarious game series ever that needs to become a switch title LOL)

Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho, Cardcaptor Sakura, Ancient Magnus Bride, Dr. Stone, Anatolia Story(Aka: Red River), My hero Academia, Yuri on Ice

Other: Lore Olympus, Star Versus The Forces of Evil, Steven Universe

Q. Do you want to be freelance artist?

A. As of current I am a freelance artist in between school so yeah!

Q. What’s your workspace like?

A. It’s a war zone of plants but very peaceful LOL

Q. What art programs and equipment do you use?

A. On my desktop I use A Wacom Intuos Pro Pen tablet and I use Clip studio paint and SAI for artwork

On my IPad I use the Apple pencil Clip studio paint and Procreate!

Q. What is your favorite software to use for drawing and doodling?

A. For drawing and doodling I really love using Procreate on my IPad. I just recently got one and it’s just amazing to be able to doodle wherever and whenever. If I’m doodling concepts on the computer I like to use Mischeif. it’s an infinite zooming canvas and I love using it for when I’m doing original story work.

Q. What are you in art school for?

A. At my university I’m actually a graphic design and digital media major. I wanted to understanding art better in the business/industry sense.

Q. What’s your ultimate goal as an artist?

A. Currently my ultimate goal is to become a graphic designer for the Pokémon company. I am currently working towards this goal by starting a Pokémon logo art project to gear up my portfolio while finish up my bachelors in Graphic design design. >:D

Q. Favorite topic in art?

A. Color Theory!

Q. What hobbies do you have aside from drawing?

A. Slalom inline skating is my main hobby followed by handbells, and knitting. (I can’t sit still for very long lol )

Q. Do you do traditional Art?

A. Yes! Mainly copic markers and watercolors x3

Q. Do you have original stories?

A. Yes I do and I have a bundle of OCs Too lol. Only really working on one story that I would like to make a webcomic soon!. Long story short this story focus on a race of Sentient stars called remnants. They maintain the expanding multiverse. The story focuses on the delves into all the various space theories I’ve studied and learned in astrophysics over the years so shenanigans will ensue! If you’re curious about How the multiverse works in this story definitely check out My Huevember 2019 project on my page. Each hue has a snippet about remnants and how they function in their world

Q. What made you get into astrophysics?

A. I love stargazing and looking for constellations it wasn’t until high school that I actually studied start studying the universe and how it works which eventually led me to look into all the various theories of astrophysics it’s just amazing all the speculations there are about the different celestial bodies in our universe

Q. What are those bubbles that you put in your artwork?

A. They’re actually photons. They are tiny light particles that we’re not actually able to perceive. It’s how I perceive those photons as they interact with an object.

Why do you draw yourself with the bottom of your hair colored?

A. I color the ends of my hair in hair waxes for funsies, the colors are really subtle unless it’ under direct light. It’s something I decided to do to celebrate my natural hair journey X3

So here’s the start of my About the artist FAQ if you have any question please don’t hesitate to ask ^W^

[profoundcreatorgentlemen]

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Agreed. My workaround is to copy the vote page URL to the clipboard before logging in, then paste it back afterwards.

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garybowling wroteI don't understand why when I click to vote on one of these, then click the thumbs up, it says I need to log in to vote. But according to the page, in the upper right, I am logged in. Then if I click the log in and re-enter my details, I lose the vote page.. Arrgh, it's the little things that get frustrating! gabo

Same thing happens to me.

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wonder6oy wrote...and by 'Bad Edits', I mean tracks that have been rendered and sent to you without proper crossfading, resulting in loud 'pop's and 'click's. In Pro Tools, it's just a matter of pulling up the pencil tool and drawing them out - literally a 5-second process. And when that fails, I use Izotope RX to do the job. But neither of those are an option in S1, and I need a solution going forward because I have to deal with these ALL the time. Any help appreciated!

I cut and fade the edge of the clip. I do this a lot for taking the fret click out of bass at the beginning of notes. Hit 3 on the keyboard to bring up the 'Cut' tool, then leave my hand there and hit 1 to bring up the normal tool and grab the edge of the clip. I've used the draw tool in other DAWs and this way is much fast to me.

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I wouldn't want them wasting time developing audio editing and embedding it, but partnering with someone to have a light version that does the basics through ARA and give you the option to upgrade if you need more advanced tools would be really nice. I mean, that was the whole purpose of ARA from the git go, wasn't it?

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Bub wroteI wouldn't want them wasting time developing audio editing and embedding it

Exactly. If the devs do not want to do this right (or at all) - they should at least allow clean passage of audio to a designated editor and leave it at that. I too use RX but the fact that RX Connect simply does not work in S1 makes it is disappointing waste of time when apps like Nuendo/Cubase can use this like a dream. Time for Presonus to get off it's 'closed' sandbox approach and offer the ability to pass audio back and forth between some standard editors out there. (please consider RX and/or Wavelab as starters ) VP

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Skaperverket wroteI've created a macro called 'Bounce to Finder' with Bounce Selection [Snap ('0')] Select in Pool Show in Explorer/Finder but for some reason S1 won't focus on the Browser window and the Pool when 'Select in Pool' is applied and the Pool is opened, so I have to do the Show in Finder command separately.

I ran in to that same issue when creating a drag location macro for non VST-XML sample players. What I did was adding the following before executing Show in Explorer/Finder: View | Browser [State '1'] Navigation | Up Navigation | Down

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This thread is a little old and may have been lost but it also goes into this and shows how I do editing anyway: viewtopic.php?f=151&t=18309 I use an editing program on a mother machine networked to my main machine running Studio One. This works rather well in fact. You can open files that are even active in a Studio One session. Edit them and resave them with a slight title change and they can be easily dragged into the session. I find editors like Cool Edit Pro (Audition) are very fast and slick at editing audio. Might be good to have a range of built in basic edit operations though.

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niles wrote

Skaperverket wroteI've created a macro called 'Bounce to Finder' with Bounce Selection [Snap ('0')] Select in Pool Show in Explorer/Finder but for some reason S1 won't focus on the Browser window and the Pool when 'Select in Pool' is applied and the Pool is opened, so I have to do the Show in Finder command separately.

I ran in to that same issue when creating a drag location macro for non VST-XML sample players. What I did was adding the following before executing Show in Explorer/Finder: View | Browser [State '1'] Navigation | Up Navigation | Down

Thanks, niles. Loving it. And daw.one is back! I have a long train ride tomorrow, so it'll be a perfect opportunity to read up on your great site. Looking forward to it. Keep up the great work, mate.

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garybowling wroteI don't understand why when I click to vote on one of these, then click the thumbs up, it says I need to log in to vote. But according to the page, in the upper right, I am logged in. Then if I click the log in and re-enter my details, I lose the vote page.. Arrgh, it's the little things that get frustrating! gabo

Click 'Log In' right on the red banner telling you that you have to be logged in. You do then get sent to another page, but you can just use the back button on your browser to return to the subject.

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Hi all, went ahead and got RX6 during a recent upgrade promo but have run foul of the convoluted working method mentioned above! I know that Studio One is not supported by RX6 (anyone know why?) but had assumed that the workflow shown in the videos relating to RX4 and previous version/s of S1 (links posted by Skapervet) would suffice, however, even those clunky workflows are not working with my setup utilising Windows 10 pro/S1v3.5..../RX6. I can get the Connect & Monitor plugs to work, after a fashion, but even the Izotope suggested work-around for non-supported DAWs does not work and the combination of RX6 standalone with S1 is tenuous at best. Having said that, RX6 does offer a good set of restoration repair tools just don't expect the software to play nicely with S1..... Yet!!!! Perhaps this is why there is a conspicuos lack of tutorials (or any updatee videos from S1 Expert) relating to this. If you know different, please inform. Regards....

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“quick” life update while i wait for my ipod to charge

(do ppl even still use ipods in this day & age. whats spotify)

i never made any posts abt it but i started the new semester & im taking 2 classes, it’s funny actually bc i waited even more til the last minute than i usually do to figure out my classes & spent the 1st week of school trying to see a counselor to find out if i still needed classes and that’s a whole other story for a whole other day but long story short the answer was no but i decided to take a couple anyway

mainly because every time im not in school The Depression takes over & i just needed something to Do so im taking intermediate painting (even tho painting 1 made me want 2 die every day) and animation (even tho i’ve already decided i don’t want to be an animator????)

so heres the thing, okay, since these are classes i don’t need in order to fill any requirements or anything i had to pick them based on nothing, really, like my main reason for taking classes this semester was to give myself something to do, right. i picked painting because my friend had told me she was taking it so i was like yo i’ll just do that too bc we had fun last time & it’s a good way to stay in contact. originally that was gonna be my only class bc i knew it’d be a lot of work and time but then i talked to my school’s art counselor about transferring to another school after im graduated from here and i’d said i was maybe interested in storyboarding so we looked at schools with animation programs and i decided super last minute to just take the animation class here and Boy what a mistake

last semester i was talking on here about a computer art class i had considered taking but dropped bc it seemed kinda... shitty?? because i hated the way the teacher taught and i felt like i wasn’t gonna gain anything from the class??? well animation is taught by the same guy and hhhhhhhhh he’s so fucking unhelpful it’s such a nothing class

see i was hoping to learn some hand-drawn animation basics like timing, squash & stretch, the fucking bouncing ball assignment, shit like that, right. the teacher was like “today we’re gonna go over the 12 principles of animation” and i was like “sweet i’ve heard of that this’ll be good” & literally he brought up a list, read off most of the names, briefly described a few, and told us to google it if we wanted more info like?? holy shit dude????? thanks for nothing oh my god

i’ve been taking a lot of time practicing animating in flipnote studio on my 3ds and watching youtube videos and i’ve been learning so much more from that than anything explained by my teacher bc godddd. basically what the class boils down to is like. flash animation. so far we’ve been working in adobe illustrator and animate & i cannot stand illustrator. i know it’s a good and useful program and if i wanted to i could learn how to use it & eventually get used to it but just the way he teaches it makes me want 2 slam dunk my computer

the computer art basics class was strongly recommended to be taken before this class but tbh i don’t even think that’s the issue here because i tried to take that class and his method was the same; he does a demo on screen that you’re supposed to follow along and do with him and he explains what hes doing as he goes but he goes so fast that if u miss a step ur fucked 

and it’s not just that he goes fast, it’s also that theres no understanding of the program itself, like ok u know how in math there’s all these formulas where if u just plug numbers into them it gives u the right answer? i always understood formulas better when i knew what each variable stood for & why the values were being added or multiplied together because then it made it easier to extract the information i needed from word problems and also helped me memorize the formulas themselves easier because i could make those associations between numbers and purpose. i had the groundwork of the formula, so i could apply it to all kinds of situations

this class is like, he only gives you the very specific formulas required to accomplish very specific tasks in the programs so i can’t make the connections to figure out how to perform other tasks and i get super lost every time & it’s super frustrating & i could ask for help because he comes around and helps people who need it but i sit in the back corner so he never really even looks my way so i feel like i can’t get his attention w/o speaking up or getting up to go get him & i get lost so often that it’s really just a pain to ask him every single time

i just hate when i have a problem in one of the programs & i just have absolutely no clue how to fix it or even work around it? im used to photoshop and illustrator is just so opposite that my brain doesn’t want to work with it so im. 100% floundering in this class

we have 2 assignments during the whole semester, the first was a group project where we hand draw a 3-second animation (~30 frames) and that was literally the very first thing we did in the class with no prior guidance and honestly i suspect that the only reason he assigns it is to fill the requirement for a group project (which i know is a thing bc a lot of my past teachers have talked about it being a thing) so it was literally just. a nothing project

the second assignment is our final which is a 90-second animation (~1080 frames) and we have basically the rest of the semester to work on it, so about a month and a half-ish? and all we’ve learned how to do so far is motion tweening in animate, basically. i mean we did a ball-and-string thing which was kind of different but it mostly involved a lot of copy+paste bullshit in illustrator & also like automatic shortcuts & stuff, there was really no drawing involved at all

also it’s one of those classes where everyone just kind of messes around and does their own thing like?? i saw one girl reading manga on her computer & these two dudes at my table were comparing yugioh cards & i hear like 50 thousand conversations about anime every day & i mean im not one to talk tbh but it’s just the atmosphere, it feels like u either know what ur doing or u just fuck around w/ ur friends and im in the “neither of those” category and the girl who was reading manga is in the “both” category bc every other time i’ve looked over there she’s got this amazing masterpiece on her screen that she made in illustrator & i die inside every time what the fuckkc 

he showed us examples of final projects from last semester and i noticed that some of them were done traditionally or in programs that were obviously not illustrator so i asked him about it & he said it doesn’t have to be done in illustrator/animate as long as it’s 90 seconds long so Guess What i think i’m just gonna make it somewhere else lmaooo i mean i feel like it’s a missed opportunity bc i have these programs at my disposal & im not even using them but god amn. god fuckign damn

im thinking of animating it in flipnote bc that’s what i’ve been using & im pretty familiar with it by now but im not sure because there are some important things im not sure i’ll be able to accomplish with it like backgrounds (which are another requirement for the assignment) and i don’t want to back myself into a corner, especially with how little time i have to do it, so idk for sure. my other idea was to use clip studio paint but i have the pro version which only lets u use 24 frames per animation which totals out to a whopping 2 seconds so idk if i want to have to deal with that bullshit either. right now im considering making the rough animation in flipnote so i can figure out the timing & shit and then slapping it into clip studio to finalize everything (or technically i could even do that in photoshop, since im more familiar w/ it & can probably work faster there- from photoshop it’d be a matter of copying the finished frames into clip studio to export into 2-second clips & then compile those in movie maker & then bam finished animation)

so!!! it’s a lot of shit im dealing with in this class & im just like. if im doing it this way then why do i even need to show up for class. what am i even in this class for im just basically making an animation on my own time with my own resources using none of the techniques taught in the class. im only doing this animation because it’s an assignment for the class im not gaining anything from. it just seems so pointless & the only thing getting me through it is the thought that i could possibly put this in a portfolio somewhere down the line, and for that i’d want it to look nice and not rushed so im thinking that for the sake of finishing the assignment i might just use my rough animation so that i can spend more time on the “nice” version afterward

aaaanyway it’s um Late for me & i went on about this for too long but i needed to get it off my chest tbh, i’ve been thinking abt making this post for like 2 weeks so there u go. i didn’t even talk about my painting troubles good lord. if you’ve been wondering why i havent been online as much lately This is why. also bc im a huge loser and 100% of my free time has been going into watching anime bye

[cansofbeans]

Could you do a tools of the trade post? I'm really curious what you use to bring everything together for your comic!

So I had this anon question sitting in my inbox for a while because I didn’t know how to answer it, because my tools of the trade change CONSTANTLY across the entire comic. Such is life when you’ve been working on the same webcomic for the past 5-6 years!

From pages 1-85, I used Photoshop CS3 combined with Manga Studio 4 for the inks, combined with a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. This was done on a 2009 Macbook Pro. 

From pages 86-133, I used Manga Studio 5 (now called Clip Studio Paint) with Photoshop CS6 for touch-ups. Still done on the Wacom Intuos 4 tablet and Macbook Pro.

From pages 134-167, I used Clip Studio Paint/MS5 but changed my Wacom Intuos 4 tablet for a Yiynova MSP19U+. Now I’m drawing on a big monitor screen! 

From pages 168-205, I finally ‘retired’ my 2009 Macbook Pro for the Microsoft Surface Book. I can’t say I got THAT much use out of its ability to draw on the screen, but it came in handy when I was away from my home desk and I needed to still work on comics. But my computer was a lot faster now! Still used Clip Studio Paint + Yiynova though. 

From pages 206-227, I deviated from my digital workflow and went traditional for the sketching/inking portion. I used a mix of old Ingram animation bond paper and Canson Bristol 300 as my drawing surface. For drawing, I used Col-Erase Blue Pencils and a mechanical blue lead. And for inks, I used a LOT of different pens & brush(pens)--Zebra Fineliner, Kuretake Bimojis, Kuretake No. 8 Brush Pen, actual W&N Kolinsky Sable brush w/ dip ink, etc. I went mad with power. 

I feel like I learned a lot from doing a portion of my comic traditionally. While I wasn’t happy with the scanning process and I feel like the final linework wasn’t as ‘clean’ as I wanted it to be, it was during this time that I fell in love again with drawing. I was in such a drawing rut for a really long time, but this pulled me back out again. So I’m happy I did it. 

From pages 228-237, I went back to my old digital workflow (Surface Book, Yiynova, Clip Studio Paint) because I wanted to see how truly happy I am with this setup. I also did a couple of pages in this set purely on the Surface Book using the Wacom Bamboo Ink pen just to see how much I liked it. It was okay. I missed drawing digitally but I hated how cumbersome the digital process has become for me.

And now....

Page 238 (current) and for probably the rest of the foreseeable comic: I bought an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. The latest comic page was sketched and inked entirely on the iPad Pro on Procreate, and then transferred onto Clip Studio Paint and finished there. I am REALLY happy with how easy it is to draw on the iPad Pro, it combines my favorite parts about drawing traditionally but without that terrible scanning process. And I can carry my comic work everywhere I go!

Anyway, the moral of this long Tumblr post is--the art process is long and weird, and sometimes it’s okay to ‘change’ your art materials. It teaches you a lot about your own work process and what you like & dislike. And it’s just good to change up what you use! It’s important to still feel inspired. 

Hope that helps!

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A decade’s worth of sports passion

I am not an athlete, but I have a passion for sports.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not uncoordinated or unknowledgeable. I tried my hand at rec-league basketball as a young kid, but it was too aggressive for my taste. 

I played six years of softball, but I was a terrible hitter and an average fielder. Frankly, the team I was a part of was quite average too.

I was always a great runner and made the varsity cross country team as a freshman in high school. I ran enough to get my letter and then called it quits after multiple bouts of pulled hip flexors. 

However, I always enjoyed football and basketball as an avid spectator and later reporter.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a small, southern town - the kind of town that nearly closes up shop for Friday night lights each fall. I grew up thinking it was normal to see the home team’s newspaper clippings plastered in downtown business windows and fans and families flock to watch the homecoming parade and following bonfire.

I remember learning the names of local high school football and basketball stars long before learning the names of college or professional athletes. 

I remember my dad dragging me to as many home games as he could, even if that meant me coming armed with coloring books to keep me occupied in the metal and wooden bleachers. 

All of that later translated to an insatiable love of high school athletics. 

When I was 14 years old, I interned at my local newspaper. My beat: the life of a cross country runner.

By 15 years old, I was connected with a local TV station in their up-and-coming “hot shots” program. I was sent to the high school football sidelines armed with a small, Canon, point-and-shoot video camera; a monopod and my dad as my personal bodyguard. 

The program was intended to give local kids interested in TV the chance to shoot their own sports while also providing free game coverage for the station. Instead, it became a career-changing calling.

I became a staple on the sidelines ever since. 

After football, I requested basketball. Following a season of that, I added lacrosse to the mix as my high school started up their first-ever program.

Between 2009 and 2012, I never missed a single football game - home or away. I traveled to back-to-back state championship appearances. I cried on my final game. The head coach awarded me an honorary varsity football letter and a plaque that hangs on my wall to this day.

I knew, heading into college, that I wanted to pursue sports reporting. I set my sights to be an on-air sports reporter, potentially on the sidelines for ESPN.

As a freshman, a journalism professor sought me out to become a part of the school’s up-and-coming sports newscast. I was no stranger to new programs and happily jumped on board. However, I quickly became forced into the background behind seniors who already knew the hands-on producing skills that first-year me did not.

Sure, I could shoot. I nabbed college soccer and tennis highlights which aired in the first sports newscasts. I met Woody Durham. I interviewed Hall of Fame coaches. However, the instruction I yearned in script-writing and Final Cut Pro was never passed on no matter how many questions I asked on Sunday afternoons locked in the journalism school basement. I felt continually out-of-touch and in the dark.

I stuck with it for a semester because I had always been taught to carry out my commitments. At the end of that time, our group was granted an in-person meeting with the then-president of ESPN, John Skipper.

I was the only female freshman, and one of only a half-dozen females in the entire sportscast team, but I didn’t give that much thought at the time.

I remember filing into the conference room with all the rest of the group as John Skipper sat at the head of the table. He circled around the room, asking each of us our name, favorite teams and one question for him. 

I was roughly half-way through the group, situated almost directly opposite of him. When it finally came to my turn, I asked him my one yearning question: “when will you have a female anchor lead Sports Center or eventually lead Super Bowl coverage?”

I will never forget his response: a laugh. “That’s not going to happen,” he said. He then added a shameless plug about the rise of ESPN-W.

I was completely deflated. I was mortified that I appeared like a fool, judging by his laugh. I was angry no one else in the room seemed appalled by the response. I was hurt that something I had wanted to see or even possibly achieved had been so whole-heartedly shut down.

The next day I chose to no longer pursue the sports track in the journalism school. I also vowed to never work for ESPN.

I took the rest of the year and summer off from sports and refocused my career path toward news. I still had a strong love for journalism (and still do), but sports would be moved to the backseat.

I kept up with my home teams from afar - even tuning in to the high school football radio broadcasts from time to time. I didn’t return to the sidelines, though, until I got a phone call from my old TV station.

They offered me a paid gig: help shoot Friday night football part-time. I hesitantly agreed.

My former mentor turned boss showed me the ropes on a professional-style camera. I learned Edius editing software, how to write up the shot sheets and input the scripts in ENPS. I was a rising junior in college doing exactly what college freshman me wanted to do, except I was doing it in a real station instead of a school-based studio.

I once again gave up my Friday nights. Sure, I missed my sorority’s cocktails, but I had returned to the sidelines. 

That first night back on the turf, I felt like I was home. I wasn’t even at my high school, but I was comfortable anyway. I bounced around one of the 63-area high schools the station covered. I made friends and encountered old acquaintances from other stations from my previous years. 

I was by far the youngest person, as well as the only girl, in the entire area shooting high school football for TV. My station was lucky enough to have a female sports anchor who I was privileged to work with often, though she didn’t usually shoot her own highlights.

Despite being the obvious woman in a man’s field, my colleagues and co-workers never doubted my knowledge or ability. I had some strange looks and sideways glances, sure. I had some high-school-boy catcalls more times that I’d like to count. But once kickoff happened, nothing else mattered.

The station kept me on for basketball season and renewed me the following year for both seasons. 

As my confidence grew, I began to reconsider the idea of sports reporting. In February of my senior year, I took a leap of faith and attended an ESPN-sponsored sports reporting workshop in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ironically compared to my last ESPN close-encounter, the workshop was filled with aspiring female sports talent. (You can read more about my big takeaways in my previous post here.)

It renewed my faith a bit in my former dream, but it still left me with some harsh realities. So, I moved forward with news journalism as my focus, but I kept sports close at hand. 

Out of college, I returned to my former station as a full-time videographer. I covered a little bit of everything: breaking news, college athletics, election coverage, and so on.

For multiple reasons, I was burnt out after a year. The passion I’d had during “Friday Football Fever” seasons didn’t translate to the day-to-day job. I found myself having more bad days than good, more and more often. I can vividly recount days on the job I called home in tears. College doesn’t prepare you for that.

I took another job, another shift in my fluxing career: a multimedia journalist for my hometown newspaper. I returned to the same place that 14-year-old me wrote her first sports beat.

I was hired in late May and began in mid-June, just outside local sports seasons. After a couple months of writing under my belt, I requested to cover the upcoming football season - the same team I grew up watching as a child, the same team I immersed myself into the sidelines with during high school. My boss agreed, seeing his Friday nights suddenly freed up after many more years of coverage than I had seen.

I also requested to video the season. He said it was fine as long as the articles got written. I grabbed my personal camera gear - and my dad, for old time’s sake - and returned to the first sidelines I had ever known.

The video work came easy. I doubled down and began to live-tweet the games as the action took place too. I soon gained a local following.

The articles took a tad more work at the start. I felt like a complete poser at first... Although I could speak and shoot a game recap with ease, I felt like I sounded out of place once pen went to paper. Why would anyone want to read a 20-something female’s play-by-play when a man who’s written sports for longer than I existed had probably already done it better, gotten it posted, and didn’t think twice about it before breakfast?

I got in the habit of speaking my recap before writing it. I used my tweets to string together the action. As I became more confident, I added game stats to my articles (though I still felt like a poser when I did so). 

Eventually, the words came easier. I stopped writing them from speech and wrote them like normal. 

Toward the end of the season, I remember walking into the office one day to hear an older citizen reading my football piece aloud in the lobby. I ducked my head and made a bee-line for my office. “Who wrote this article,” the man demanded.

“Our staff writer, Bailey Pennington,” our office manager politely replied.

I froze.

The older man curtly said, “tell him he did a good job. The boys sound like they’re on the right track.” He folded the paper under his arm and left.

My face flushed. I wasn’t angry I had been mistaken for a male writer. Rather, I had proven I was just as good. I belonged at the table that John Skipper had laughed me away from, and not just because I could shoot video.

In the year and a half since that moment, I have unashamedly and relentlessly covered the newspaper’s sports. I became a staple, video or still camera in hand, on the basketball court, behind the softball dugout, on the lacrosse sidelines, beside the swimming lanes and at the cross country finish lines.

I easily spend 20 hours a week at high school games on top of my regular work week, now ten years removed from the first time I filmed a game. Win or lose, I wait outside locker rooms for coach interviews (they all know me by name, most have my cell number too). My highlight videos are viewed and shared hundreds, sometimes thousands, of times on social media. People in the community stop me and thank me for my coverage more times than I can remember.

For all of these things, I have become extremely grateful. I realized my former dream of an ESPN gig wasn’t my path... Instead, I learned my value on a high school sideline by the impact it’s had on the dozens of athletes and fans in my small hometown. I came full circle.

Now, I’m two weeks away from another shift in my journalistic career... and I can’t help but reflect on my decade’s worth of sports passion.

At 25 years old, I’ve covered more sports in photos, video and articles than many budding sports-hopefuls could dream of by this age.

I’ve covered stages as big as the Carolina-Duke basketball rivalry to arenas as small as a 9:00 AM post-holiday high school basketball game (no joke, there might have been two dozen people in attendance). 

Now, my career is taking me away from home and away from sports. I’ll be traveling, producing magazine and web content and helping oversee a team of creatives marketing for a big-name brand. 

I’m thrilled for the opportunity. I'm excited for the challenge. I’m eager for the journey. But it’s bittersweet... with the majority of tears being shed for those same sidelines.

Sports is my passion. 

I’m not an athlete. I’m not a coach. I’m not a man starting a Twitter feud or Facebook comment war, arming my arguments with stats and name-drops to prove “my sports knowledge is bigger than yours.” But I will happily argue with all of them that my passion is greater.

Even as I’ve written this long-form post/rant, I’ve shed a few tears. 

I’ve notified many of the coaches I’ve covered over the years personally. All of them have been overjoyed for my new opportunities, although they’ve been sad to see me go. Most have expressed no surprise that I’m moving to bigger things, which I take as the highest compliment. 

I haven’t had the heart to post it publicly until now... Most of my “followers” are expecting a basketball highlight video posted to Twitter by this time. But tonight I needed to reflect.

Although I’m moving away from sports once more, I know the sidelines will always be there. I’ve proved all I needed to prove to myself. I know my ability and so do the ones that matter most. 

And I’m sure, with any luck, I’ll be back there once more with a camera in-hand.