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Introducing the Great Backlog Unloading Initiative
4 months ago
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Scribbling nonsense all across the board like jaguars leaping from trees of leather bodices encasing aged withered corpses whose eyes dazzle with the light of one million and three silver satellites flying over Los Angeles hiding illegal immigrants from Irish potato farms built atop the golden ruins of El Dorado filled with demonic Ewoks hurling tremendous tankards of tons of Tylenol at the panda bear ninjas that hide around every corner of the magic square building trying desperately to pull up its skirt and set roots on another cubic square inch of the board upon which I am scribbling nonsense.
I've been doing digital coloring for something over a decade now. I'd like to think that I've gotten better even though it doesn't always feel like it, and one of the reasons for that is because of how agonizingly long it takes me to color things most of the time. There was a time when I could finish lining and coloring and shading a picture in a single day, now it's a process that takes me days or weeks depending on how complicated it is, even after I stripped out steps like doing colored lines.
As a result of this, and my poor spending habits, I gradually accrued more pictures than I could ever hope to complete. For context, last week my "things to work on" folder had more than seven hundred files in it--not individual pictures, mind you, since every picture is represented by at least one image file and at least one project file, but that's certainly still hundreds of pictures. Some of these have been sitting in that folder for years without being completed, some so long that they still only have SAI files instead of SAI2 files. And some of these pictures are things that just don't really matter anymore, so there isn't even much point in going back to them.
I have already been posting some pictures without shading for a while now, because I need to accept that some pictures just don't need to be shaded. In the weeks to come, however, I am going to be posting a lot more pictures that have been on the backlog for a long time. Some of them will be getting small touch-ups, mostly added backgrounds, nothing major. Maybe I'll end up going back to some of them in the future, if I find a way to get better about how I handle shading.
As a result of this, and my poor spending habits, I gradually accrued more pictures than I could ever hope to complete. For context, last week my "things to work on" folder had more than seven hundred files in it--not individual pictures, mind you, since every picture is represented by at least one image file and at least one project file, but that's certainly still hundreds of pictures. Some of these have been sitting in that folder for years without being completed, some so long that they still only have SAI files instead of SAI2 files. And some of these pictures are things that just don't really matter anymore, so there isn't even much point in going back to them.
I have already been posting some pictures without shading for a while now, because I need to accept that some pictures just don't need to be shaded. In the weeks to come, however, I am going to be posting a lot more pictures that have been on the backlog for a long time. Some of them will be getting small touch-ups, mostly added backgrounds, nothing major. Maybe I'll end up going back to some of them in the future, if I find a way to get better about how I handle shading.
