I’m a little concerned lately that I might be close to suffering some sort of artistic burnout. Over the last 4 months or so I’ve basically been drawing all every weekday at work, then often drawing on my lunch break or staying late to work on personal stuff… after that I come home and draw some more. Sometimes I stay up pretty late working on things. When I read I’m reading books on art theory. I have all these little lists full of things I want to do and it seems the only time I’m not drawing/thinking about drawing is when I’m hanging out with my friends.
It’s getting to the point where I feel really anxious if I don’t like how something has turned out or if I haven’t achieved at least SOMETHING in any one day. Sometimes this is good, but I’m starting to find it really hard to relax and I’m worried I’m turning into one of those workaholic types. Back at university I never thought I’d have this problem lol!
I’m beginning to think I should take a break for a week or so. It’ll be hard not to work on any of the several concurrent projects I have going, but I fear my brain may melt if I carry on this way. I should be watching movies and playing video games in my spare time!
(Copied from my DA journal)
I think I have accidentally solved the Photoshop colour profile issue!
I recommend you save a copy of whatever you’re working on before you try it as it might have an undesired effect, but so far it’s been displaying and saving as it should, and while it looks different on each of my monitors, it’s displaying as it should on my work screen too. This proves that it’s not a problem with the hardware itself, but with the way Photoshop displays colour profiles in that monitor… pull yer finger out Wacom >8(.
Anyway. I stumbled on this method,
- Open your PSD in Photoshop in your Cintiq
- In the menu, select Window>Arrange>New window for filename.psd
- It will open a secondary window for the same image, but for some reason it will be notably different to the first copy. It should be displaying colour as it should (ie, not distorting cyan and magenta).
- Save the file and close Photoshop, open the same file again and voilà, it should be fixed and should also save accurately as a JPG with the colour profile embedded.
Now, I have no idea whether it was a fluke but it worked with several PSD files that I’d had to colour correct in my main monitor but were still displaying strangely in the Cintiq. So far I’ve only tried it on a Mac so I’m unsure of the results on a PC.
If you’ve had this issue on your 12inch Cintiq, please give this a try and let me know if it worked or if you had any issues, as I think it would be useful to write this up and make it available because it’s a pretty big issue for a product that is so damn expensive D:…
OKAY I HAVE THIS IDEA.
I need to get better at composition and backgrounds because I don’t draw them enough and when I do I tend to stay in my comfort zone.
Give me a short description of a scene or place so that I can thumbnail sketch and perhaps do a colour layout for it. The more information regarding the setting, colours, viewpoint etc etc the better! The scenery must be the focal point, not characters.
I know I have like a billion things I’ve started and still have to finish, but this will be a useful exercise for me, even if I don’t do them for a couple of weeks or so.
And just to clarify, this isn’t a call for personal requests I’m afraid.
THANKS <3
the livestream procastinator never worked with my computer, but joinme is really really good!
Ohh I have this actually! Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow.
thetinkertoyboy asked: Yeah, it looks like it's a fairly widespread problem with Procaster, and livestream's cookie-cutter response thus far is "Your computer isn't powerful enough", but when they're saying that to people with brand new quad core processors and 4 gigs of ram, it doesn't make any sense to me =\. I'll keep digging and I'll let you know if there's a better answer/solution, but right this moment it looks like procaster just eats up CPU like it's no one's business.
Thanks for your help! I remember the previous version worked just fine. Perhaps it wasn’t so bogged down with useless features :(
Well that was an unmitigated disaster… sorry for wasting your time.
