#the same passcode i've been using for almost two years ie since i purchased it

[causticsunshine]

a year and a half of work gone

well i have officially lost all my art files edited and created since july of 2022 as well as all of my favorite brushes and tool settings i've since modified, including the only few lineart brushes i found that actually worked for me

some of my reference and insp photos were salvaged but most all of them are from 2022 and the very beginning of 2023

i've been going through my socials saving as many wip / unfinished previews and old pieces as i can and saving them but there were so many folders within my documents full of pieces i never shared or screencapped that are just. completely gone.

i got maybe 3.5 hours of sleep and have spent most of the morning sobbing because i've realized how much i've lost... it's like i burnt up multiple sketches and totally obliterated all my brushes and pens, cracked paint pans... like a year and a half of acquired tools and hard work is just gone

i guess if anything i can take the time now to redownload and modify as much as i can and remember to and create a double back up system for everything, then make a list of the pieces i don't even have wip screenshots of and decide what's meant to stay lost and what i'll try to recreate?

at least i have some the recent screengrabs of stuff i was working on literally yesterday so i don't have to start completely fresh on them

but yeah otherwise. i have to try and pick up the pieces and start almost completely fresh all over again, only this time not because i wanted to