Shout Box archive

16 May 19:52

Hobitt

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yeah need practice too though art cannot be passed like information it needs to be practiced

16 May 19:52

Amit Dutta

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It's good to want something and go for it. It's not good to want it so bad, it makes your life a waking misery of guilt and fear

16 May 19:51

neopatogen

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I'm a huge theory lover

16 May 19:51

Hobitt

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so yeah thats that i guess had to get it out since this inner conflict has been brewing for years now

16 May 19:50

Hobitt

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yeah in a perfect world i would probably learn every bit of art theory

16 May 19:50

Amit Dutta

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Yep Lodratio...I'll give it a go. Didn't want to do the alpha, but the beta might be cool to play with :)

16 May 19:50

Amit Dutta

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but I get your point

16 May 19:49

John

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@Hob Yeah.. I didn't think of that. Haha! I forgot some people love the challenge.

16 May 19:49

Lodratio

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well amit, you can always install both versions in parallel.

16 May 19:49

Amit Dutta

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Depends how much you like eating and worrying 24/7 about how that will happen

16 May 19:49

Hobitt

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well beats working manual labour i bet

16 May 19:49

John

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Haha! That sounded meaner than it should! I'm sorry!

16 May 19:49

Hobitt

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i by like it i ment that i enjoy tackling challanges and learning

16 May 19:49

Amit Dutta

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Btw this whole freelance thing is horrendous. Just so you know....there is no holy grail

16 May 19:48

John

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@Hob There's complacency in comfort. I mean, if you're drawing just to like it.. probably you're trying to do it as a hobby and not work. Not saying that you are...

16 May 19:48

Amit Dutta

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You are litterally fucking yourself in the head...with your own head. That's the poetic version

16 May 19:48

Lodratio

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I'm saying it might be because of that fear that you don't have the courage to do things in different ways, and don't find the easy solutions that are presenting themselves to you

16 May 19:48

Hobitt

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+ having a shitty job which i want to get out and freelance

16 May 19:47

Amit Dutta

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That will get you burned out and stressed out in no time

16 May 19:47

Hobitt

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so i feel i dont deserve to take even a hour out of my day to do something else

16 May 19:47

Amit Dutta

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it's an accepted bug...which I didn't have before even though I was using 8.1 on my now dead laptop. So it's a tradeoff between beta bugs or this annoying bug

16 May 19:46

Hobitt

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but like i sed the fear of being mediocre (which i am ) is there

16 May 19:46

Amit Dutta

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Nah I'm using it on win 8.1

16 May 19:46

Lodratio

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hhhm, maybe that's just the linux version. I have a problem where it stops recognizing pressure sensitivity when I switch to other tabs for too long, but other than that it's fine.

16 May 19:46

Hobitt

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but for the past 4 years the only other thing i do consistently is read books for 20-30 minutes a day so my life has been very much in a set pattern

16 May 19:44

Hobitt

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i dont know i just draw and i like it

16 May 19:44

Lodratio

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I know this sounds 'wrong', and it goes against the general consensis of hard work paying off, but if you struggle too hard you don't get anywhere. I think you should stop beating yourself up over that kind of thing, and try looking for the path of least resistance instead.

16 May 19:44

John

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That overwhelming feeling?

16 May 19:44

Amit Dutta

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@Lodratio. Not yet. I should install it...I want that animation. My version crashes everytime I try and paint on the preview panel for any brush setting! They broke something in the 2.9.11 build....very annoying.

16 May 19:44

John

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Hmm.. do you feel like you're tackling a lot in your art?

16 May 19:44

Hobitt

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yeah

16 May 19:43

John

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I know that feeling. Working a job to get home to work on something to get a job.