8-26-18

A nice long night in studies!!  Started out with some 1 min studies.

Then I did some of these 3 pose studies where I trace the first image, draw the 2nd image by looking at it, then drew the 3rd by removing all the reference.

Had this little guy show up randomly...  He got pretty upset about a shopping list.

Then somebody stopped by wanting me to draw this character.  So i did.  but he disappeared.  hahaha  Dont even remember the characters name XD  But I did it!

Really liking this streaming thing so far.  A huge reason I wanted to start streaming was to help with the focus.  Many many streamers I've seen insist that streaming has drastically helped their drawing focus.  And I can say that throughout the few days I've been doing it; that's certainly the case!!

Tinkerbot

Tinkerbot!

First colored picture I did in the stream.

First colored picture I've done in a while actually.  Really happy with how this one turned out haha.  It started as a random pose, a buddy of mine said it looked a bit like tinkerbell.  I kinda wanted to draw a robot, so I made it Tinkerbot instead!! 

8-25-18

Had another successful stream!  Still just trying to get the hang of things so we're just focusing on some figure drawings.

Then after we did those, some silly pictures came out.  My buddy Grayvs in the chat suggested the dabbing pose. 

Then silly things happened haha.
I took the same image and resized them and moved them around a bit but wanted to keep the original.

Was a good night.

First Art Stream!!

After some days of testing, finally got my first art stream in!!

Just did a few figures.
I'm still trying to figure out how I want to do everything.  I have a pretty good idea on what I want to do.  But exactly how I do that I'm not too sure haha.  I really hope this is something that I can maintain.  And I figured out how to save the streams!

My Depersonalization Story

My journey so far.  I've made some pretty massive steps in the mental side of things.  I don't remember how much I've mentioned it here but It's almost unreal that I've been able to come to these realizations.  These are things I've been piecing together for many years...  running into brick wall after brick wall.  BUT...  I think the video says it all.  I put a lot of work into it.  It's taken weeks to finally finalize my thoughts into a video....  but here it is!

This is a big deal.  This is a real big deal.  There's so much going on in my mind.  Being able to know the name to this thing.  Let alone being able to share it with people.

Streaming on Twitch??

Finally trying to stretch my legs with this streaming stuff!

My end goal is really take the concept of this art blog and put it in streaming form.  Share as much of the art process as possible.  Of-course I dont now how much of this can translate to a stream type setup.  But I'll never know until I try!

https://www.twitch.tv/doggyzart

Not a whole lot going on there just yet.  Still really early in trying to figure out just what exactly I'm doing.  But I'm sure I'll get there.

NEW (replaced) TABLET!??

So the new tablet I got last year about this time kinda sucked.

It was a good tablet but it always had this problem where the drivers would randomly stop, seemingly for no reason, and the only way to fix the problem was to completely restart the computer.  Which of-course ruined work flow especially with [sometimes] having to restart multiple time if I wanted to draw something particularly large.

I thought it was just a little issue I could live with until i hopefully one day upgraded to a cintiq...  but as of late the problem became so monumentally annoying.  I couldn't do anything without it completely messing up.

So I decided to return it to at least get my money back or maybe a replacement to fix the problem.

Welp, unfortunately the normal warranty went out literally days before all this frustration just got to me.  I sent some messages back and forth with both Amazon and the XP Pen people and yea sure enough I couldn't return it normally.  Which wasn't that big a problem, That's why I had the extended warranty from some 3rd party company...  When I went to use the extended warranty I ACCIDENTALLY REFUNDED THE EXTENDED WARRANTY??  How on earth is that even possible.  After some frustrating messages back and forth with the 3rd party warranty people they were sure to inform me that "Yes you're warranty has been refunded to your account."

So after a few frustrating moments later I sent them a uhh  let's just say "less than happy" message about the entire situation.  But somehow or another that message ended up in XP Pen's inbox??

Then unexpectedly I got this message in my inbox:

""Dear valued customer,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Acctually, we provide one-year warranty on the product, not three years, like I have mentioned in the last mail, Our product itself has a one-year warranty. But we do not sell additional product warranty time. What you said should be a warranty service for all electronic products sold by a third-party company. In fact, these companies did not cooperate with us, we also do not know how they perform warranty service. 

As we take responsible to our customer, our faith is to provide affordable excellent digital drawing tablet as well as excellent customer service, even your tablet is already over due, but we still like to help you to get a brand new replacement which will be the updated version of Artist16, Artist16 Pro performance more professional. 

Depending on our replacement policy, you may need to first help us return the Artist16 to our return address first. And please tell us the tracking number, once we can track the tracking information we will immediately re-send a new product which is Artist16 Pro to you.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Best regards,
Jessica ""

Needless to say, I didn't expect this at all haha!

I shipped off the tablet, and the new tablet just came in a moment ago.  I got it all set up and so far it seems that the problem isn't there anymore.  I am absolutely blown away by XP Pen.  I can even fully express my gratitude for how much of a headache they saved me from for not returning the product sooner.  XP Pen, quality company.  Like wow.  Huge props.

It's nothing special but here are the first sketches I did on the tablet.

then mom did a few lines as well haha

What a nice turn of events.  ♥