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How To Give Fish All Your Money
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Because I'm sure everyone wants to know how... 
I mean, I have had a couple of queries about it... Literally a couple... so far this year... XD
Do you like my art style enough to want to commission me? Well, there are a few options!
For three Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/tehfeeesh), $9 USD, you can YCH any sketch you see in my gallery, or on my Twitter feed (twitter.com/ursonadk).
For $5 USD a month on Patreon (www.patreon.com/Tehfeeesh) you can do the same thing - it's cheaper if you do it every month, y'see. There's also a $20 USD tier which will give you a weekly one hour (you can save em up) session in Drawpile or via a Picarto stream where I'll do anything from draw with you, to offer advice on art, through to drawing stuff for you. That tier also gives you two YCH options a month.
For a straight up commission, I charge $40 USD per character. No backgrounds, no extra charges for fancy character designs. Turnaround on these is two weeks, you'll get test sketches and pose ideas for the first week, minimum of four sketches. After that you can choose the sketch you want to have coloured, and that will be delivered by the end of the second week. The only refunds I offer on commission are where I fail to meet the deadline - this deadline will be communicated to you at the start of the commission process, and will be specifically noted on the Paypal invoice. You will not be stuck waiting and out of pocket for six months when you commission me.
I mean, I have had a couple of queries about it... Literally a couple... so far this year... XDDo you like my art style enough to want to commission me? Well, there are a few options!
For three Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/tehfeeesh), $9 USD, you can YCH any sketch you see in my gallery, or on my Twitter feed (twitter.com/ursonadk).
For $5 USD a month on Patreon (www.patreon.com/Tehfeeesh) you can do the same thing - it's cheaper if you do it every month, y'see. There's also a $20 USD tier which will give you a weekly one hour (you can save em up) session in Drawpile or via a Picarto stream where I'll do anything from draw with you, to offer advice on art, through to drawing stuff for you. That tier also gives you two YCH options a month.
For a straight up commission, I charge $40 USD per character. No backgrounds, no extra charges for fancy character designs. Turnaround on these is two weeks, you'll get test sketches and pose ideas for the first week, minimum of four sketches. After that you can choose the sketch you want to have coloured, and that will be delivered by the end of the second week. The only refunds I offer on commission are where I fail to meet the deadline - this deadline will be communicated to you at the start of the commission process, and will be specifically noted on the Paypal invoice. You will not be stuck waiting and out of pocket for six months when you commission me.
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Adding functionality to DA
2 min read
How to block a user's deviations from showing up in the thumbnail feeds for "Newest", etc:
Add a single line to your Adblock rules. (Click the Adblock icon, Options, Customize (up the top), Manually edit your filters (press the "Edit" button next to it), type in the following text on a new line:
deviantart.com##span[href*="USERNAME"]
What this does is tells Adblock to apply the rule to anything on the Deviantart website, it looks for any SPAN tags, then checks to see if anywhere in the href (basically, the URL) entry has the text you specify. The *= is saying match anywhere in the entry, whereas just putting = would make it do a perfect match for the whole entry.
I've no idea how well this works for notification feeds, but for the "Newest", "What's Hot", etc feeds it works a treat. I've had a problem where in the time period I generally keep an eye on the newest deviations in a particular category, there's a flood of art from a particular user. I have nothing against this user, I make no judgements on their art beyond saying it's just not my cup of tea, and there's certainly nothing they're producing that would merit my saying anything about it. In over a decade of using the site, this is the first (and I expect only) time I've ever felt the need to do this, and it's purely because I'd like to see something other than just their art in the Newest feed.
The reason I have adblock installed and running on this site? How about the multiple times they've let ads that play sound through? Or the instance just the other day that prompted me to re-enable for DA, there sat one of those ransomware ads. You know, the ones that tell you to click here to scan your computer, then get you to install the 'scanner', and then get you to pay money to continue accessing your computer. Yep. :/
Add a single line to your Adblock rules. (Click the Adblock icon, Options, Customize (up the top), Manually edit your filters (press the "Edit" button next to it), type in the following text on a new line:
deviantart.com##span[href*="USERNAME"]
What this does is tells Adblock to apply the rule to anything on the Deviantart website, it looks for any SPAN tags, then checks to see if anywhere in the href (basically, the URL) entry has the text you specify. The *= is saying match anywhere in the entry, whereas just putting = would make it do a perfect match for the whole entry.
I've no idea how well this works for notification feeds, but for the "Newest", "What's Hot", etc feeds it works a treat. I've had a problem where in the time period I generally keep an eye on the newest deviations in a particular category, there's a flood of art from a particular user. I have nothing against this user, I make no judgements on their art beyond saying it's just not my cup of tea, and there's certainly nothing they're producing that would merit my saying anything about it. In over a decade of using the site, this is the first (and I expect only) time I've ever felt the need to do this, and it's purely because I'd like to see something other than just their art in the Newest feed.
The reason I have adblock installed and running on this site? How about the multiple times they've let ads that play sound through? Or the instance just the other day that prompted me to re-enable for DA, there sat one of those ransomware ads. You know, the ones that tell you to click here to scan your computer, then get you to install the 'scanner', and then get you to pay money to continue accessing your computer. Yep. :/
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Artistic Ramblings
3 min read
About time for another one of these. I think the last one was when the laptop drive was on the way out.
Beyond a month of vaguely industrious me in the middle of the year I'm still not sketching anywhere near as much as I want to (and need to if I want to improve!). Beyond that, I'm beginning to grow cautiously proud of my art-type abilities. So long as I don't go looking at some of the awesome stuff out there and go feeling all amateur hour again. XD
Trying to actively learn new techniques, and merge them into my own style. So far this year I've managed to get a rough system for facial features that works for me, and I've started moving from a watercolour brush single-layer colouring to a flat colour and 'shading' multiple layer system. Finally figured out that a blue (or any other light colour really, but blue is pretty) ink for original sketches means I can see what I'm doing when it comes to doing line art (something I've not really done before). I still have a tendency towards multiple sketchy lines, but aiming for a more disciplined (for lack of a better word) line drawing technique can only end well.
Plugging the laptop I do my art on into the plasma TV has really helped with colouring. The colour vibrancy and elimination of viewing angles, plus the fact it's a 52" screen, really helps. And the vibrancy makes me WANT to add colour, cause I'm a sucker for pretty!
The main areas of improvement I'd like to look into for the next year are:
- Sketching for at least half an hour every day, preferably longer, and taking a sketch through to the coloured stage.
- Using a larger canvas, and sketching zoomed out so I can zoom in for details.
- Shifting my art onto one of the other computers to take advantage of the 1920x1080 resolution instead of the 1440x900 of the laptop (piped onto a 720p TV).
- Maybe upgrading to a new art application? I use openCanvas 1.1b72, and since I don't draw with anyone now I really should be looking into something a bit newer.
- Stop posting art in the middle of the quietest part of the day/night! While I'm not overly bothered with tracking views, and keep my total pageviews hidden for just that reason, I have to admit to feeling a little sad to see a piece of art get a grand total of 1 view. Primarily posting unfinished sketches very likely has a LOT to do with this as well, see first item in this list! XD
All that said, I'm still going to concentrate on my number one reason for drawing - TO HAVE FUN!
Beyond a month of vaguely industrious me in the middle of the year I'm still not sketching anywhere near as much as I want to (and need to if I want to improve!). Beyond that, I'm beginning to grow cautiously proud of my art-type abilities. So long as I don't go looking at some of the awesome stuff out there and go feeling all amateur hour again. XD
Trying to actively learn new techniques, and merge them into my own style. So far this year I've managed to get a rough system for facial features that works for me, and I've started moving from a watercolour brush single-layer colouring to a flat colour and 'shading' multiple layer system. Finally figured out that a blue (or any other light colour really, but blue is pretty) ink for original sketches means I can see what I'm doing when it comes to doing line art (something I've not really done before). I still have a tendency towards multiple sketchy lines, but aiming for a more disciplined (for lack of a better word) line drawing technique can only end well.
Plugging the laptop I do my art on into the plasma TV has really helped with colouring. The colour vibrancy and elimination of viewing angles, plus the fact it's a 52" screen, really helps. And the vibrancy makes me WANT to add colour, cause I'm a sucker for pretty!
The main areas of improvement I'd like to look into for the next year are:
- Sketching for at least half an hour every day, preferably longer, and taking a sketch through to the coloured stage.
- Using a larger canvas, and sketching zoomed out so I can zoom in for details.
- Shifting my art onto one of the other computers to take advantage of the 1920x1080 resolution instead of the 1440x900 of the laptop (piped onto a 720p TV).
- Maybe upgrading to a new art application? I use openCanvas 1.1b72, and since I don't draw with anyone now I really should be looking into something a bit newer.
- Stop posting art in the middle of the quietest part of the day/night! While I'm not overly bothered with tracking views, and keep my total pageviews hidden for just that reason, I have to admit to feeling a little sad to see a piece of art get a grand total of 1 view. Primarily posting unfinished sketches very likely has a LOT to do with this as well, see first item in this list! XD
All that said, I'm still going to concentrate on my number one reason for drawing - TO HAVE FUN!
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Ut oh
2 min read
Got home from work today to find the laptop I do all my sketching on trying to boot up via LAN. Suspicions of hard drive failure confirmed when there's no sign of a drive in the BIOS anymore.
So I did what anyone else would do in just such a situation - checked the backup of all personal files I did last week to make sure it was still on the two drives I use for the purpose, then pulled the drive out of the laptop, plugged it into my USB drive dongle thing, and tried to get it going again.
For certain definitions of 'going', it's fine, for now. Pulling the rest of the data off, and going to see if it will hold together long enough to get a full clone done of it. Going to be a pain in the ass if I have to do a clean install onto the laptop, although I've got a Windows 7 pro DVD lying round somewhere.
Hmm, I think I'll try cloning this thing onto a 2Tb SATA drive I have lying round, if that works then this is rapidly going to turn into a real frankenbox - the drive will be powered off the same box currently powering the case fan keeping it cool! XD
NEVER SURRENDER!
So I did what anyone else would do in just such a situation - checked the backup of all personal files I did last week to make sure it was still on the two drives I use for the purpose, then pulled the drive out of the laptop, plugged it into my USB drive dongle thing, and tried to get it going again.
For certain definitions of 'going', it's fine, for now. Pulling the rest of the data off, and going to see if it will hold together long enough to get a full clone done of it. Going to be a pain in the ass if I have to do a clean install onto the laptop, although I've got a Windows 7 pro DVD lying round somewhere.
Hmm, I think I'll try cloning this thing onto a 2Tb SATA drive I have lying round, if that works then this is rapidly going to turn into a real frankenbox - the drive will be powered off the same box currently powering the case fan keeping it cool! XD
NEVER SURRENDER!
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Sketchery!
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Sketchbook actually got a decent workout this past week, stepped back from being an ineffective WoW GM and just that change has made a bit of a difference. Making a couple of thousand gold a day off the AH, actually enjoying myself a bit more, getting stuff done again.
Oh yeah, and a lot more time at work for sketching and writing now that I'm not spending all that time thinking up ideas for the guild that never went anywhere. See scraps for sample! :3 I quite like the level of improvement, to the point where I'm actually adding expressions of a sort to my sketches. Feels good
Oh yeah, and a lot more time at work for sketching and writing now that I'm not spending all that time thinking up ideas for the guild that never went anywhere. See scraps for sample! :3 I quite like the level of improvement, to the point where I'm actually adding expressions of a sort to my sketches. Feels good
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