Some of those WIP sketches in Clip Studio Paint I mentioned yesterday:




If the image files don't display properly - which has happened with files I've uploaded to Google Photos before - please let me know ASAP?

I managed to last about 20-30 minutes. I wasn't able to cover the animation side of CSP's toolkit because I don't use those parts. (I know that others do, and I'd like to find a Mac user somewhere in Ottawa who does for the next time.)

I know I didn't cover more than a fraction of what that software is capable of in that twenty minutes. There are hundreds - thousands? - of tutorials in static web-page and video formats to take one into more depth. These are being created and updated even now. I need to set aside time to practice with CSP regularly.

The need to pay my bills ASAP is cutting into time I could be spending on learning to be a better artist/designer/illustrator and earning an honest living from those skills.

I finally drew things again tonight after supper. It's been weeks-to-months since I did that, either pencil/ink on paper or digitally. I need to get back to that. More often, more regularly.

The cold snap is over. Now we'll be back to bouncing back and forth across the freezing point.

I'm trying to find 3D models of the kind of cookware you'd use for heating up scalloped potatoes in the oven. Yes, it's inspired by an Inktober prompt.

I've already given up on the idea of getting a sketch finished per day...and I still want to try for addressing every item in the Inktober prompt list for this year anyway.

Sketch # 2 - "Scurry"

This was the first thought I had for it.

I have to wonder, given this context re: Clip Studio Paint...

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/clip-studio-paint-subscription

Yes, Krita exists as an option and so does Affinity Photo...but I bought CSP for specific reasons of comics design suitability. So did many others.

So I've spent the day in family conference - that gets discussed in "access list" entries - as well as a ByMUG meeting, some house chores, Clip Studio Paint practice, culling basement and e-mail clutter, and other stuff.

Found a new Air Miles project to aim my points at: there's a monitor in their Dream Rewards catalogue that pivots. Been wanting one of those for three or four years for use with Clip Studio Paint, on comics stuff. I don't know where on my desk I'll put it once I have it, but I expect to make it useful somehow.

Bought a couple of brush packs from the Affinity Store on Friday night.

Yesterday, I tried to work with some downloaded 3-D files in Clip Studio Paint in order to create frameworks for multi-point perspective drawing. Architectural practice was the goal here. I didn't get very far with that, I'm afraid.

Most of all from all of these things, I need to give myself reasons and time to practice with this software. As if applying for jobs in graphic design wasn't reason enough for that practice to happen to begin with. And it is reason enough, or should be.

I think I'm making progress in understanding how to use my new printer.

Family is mostly as okay as possible under the present circumstances.

I enjoyed last week's installment of Star Trek: Discovery. Still annoyed by people who hate-watch. I have a theory with scarce evidence to support it: that they want to punish those of us who do enjoy the show by airing their complaints.

...and I should log that in the job search diary in the morning.

"Practice time - Clip Studio Paint".

Also:

"Video tutorial re: Clip Studio Paint on YouTube". Some artists are livestreaming stuff to fundraise.

More tomorrow.

Sleep now, hopefully.