#actually I'm testing and organizing my csp brushes

[black-leather-sketchbook]

From brain dump sketches

[myrmica]

1, 3, 9, 23 - and as for 23 I already know the insane way you approach layers but I'm basically asking you to share with the class

1. Art programs you have but don't use

well as of (checks watch) 19 hours ago i have blender and no ideaaaaaaaaa what to do with that thing. i'm interested in it for grease pencil/2d animation though... speaking of animation, i tried to pirate tvpaint a long time ago because on paper it seems like it might suit me better than storyboard pro/harmony does but i can't figure out how to get it to do anything. i also couldn't find the version of tvpaint i actually wanted anywhere. animation programs are such a struggle i don't enjoy working in toonboom all that much, if i could i would animate entirely in storyboard pro because it's simpler/more intuitive but i inevitably have to move to harmony to do certain things -_-

otherwise... like, blockbench, modelbench, mine-imator, all of which i haven't touched in a couple years. for drawing i switch between sai and csp pretty regularly but csp is my default now, i feel like i'm slowly phasing out sai like a cat switching to wet food or something. but i still like sai better for painting (i'm attached to my custom brush in there)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

i have no idea actually. i don't really have any long term characters or story ideas that have endured the test of time, i draw entirely different things now, erm... well here's some minecraft art i drew at age 11 some things never change

9. What are your file name conventions

bad. well no it could be worse for the most part it's just 3000 numbered iterations of the same file. i'm too stuck in my ways to change it at this point but i do wish it was more orderly

and i organize my art more generally in folders by subject matter. which is funny because then you can get stats

^ lifesteal has surpassed the competition (although the file sizes are biased by having deleted all of the iterative working files for older stuff)

23. Do you use different layer modes

okay well in my defense it's BETTER than it USED TO BE. i think i've talked about my whole layer situation before actually but the tldr is i have a problem. i think my average layer count these days for something relatively complicated is in the 200s but once upon a time it could get up to the thousands

welcome to my twisted mind

all that aside i use multiply layers and such pretty often these days. i remember years ago i really hated using them because i didn't like there to be anywhere in an image where you could tell color was layered transparently, if that makes sense? but now i like them to help unify colors