27 Aug 04:53
--night, daggers. btw i just realized that if you practice 16hrs each day for a month, that's almost 5% of 10.000 hrs. And if you keep that up for a year, you're above 50% already. Do 8hrs each day and you are doing pretty damn good as well..
27 Aug 04:44
--Sula, I use Ubuntu, apart from the niggling issue of bootspace which you have to manually clear, it's just as easy as windows
27 Aug 04:11
--damn it the good sketchbooks in CA are vanishing is there a way to archive them?
27 Aug 01:16
--Linux is great. I'm just too used to windows to change :( there is a lot of stupid-user-friendly in Windows (as in MacOS too). Took me too long to learn to jump the hoops on windows to be willing to learn it again on another system... :(
27 Aug 00:17
--Random inspiring quotes for the lovely peoples on here; "Talent is just a name for the love of the thing" -William Bouguereau
26 Aug 22:07
--Thanks for the encouragement. Who knows, maybe I'll even be able to use bigger brushes with Krita on Ubuntu. I'll try this out as soon as possible.
26 Aug 21:56
--There is definitely a learning curve involved, and some things operate under very different principles to windows, but you can find good info online quite easily. I got 4 extra years out of a laptop that basically froze up and was useless using windows, but ran smooth like butter on Ubuntu. Showed me how absolutely (here's that word again) RUBBISH windows is.
26 Aug 21:54
--Later on, if you want to install it properly, you can either dual boot it (run both OS's) You will get a choice on which OS to load at startup. Or you can replace windows with Linux completely. For dual booting it will depend on how much space you have available. and it can get a bit complicated partitioning drives so you can share files between the two OS's, but the install of Ubuntu gives you options so you can get started pretty quickly.
26 Aug 21:51
--Not really for a trial. It literally loads up into memory and runs off the USB, so you can just test it out and play around and see how you like it. When you shut down everything will just reset back to windows.
26 Aug 21:46
--Thanks for the info man. Wouldn't having two operating systems slow down my PC though? Not really sure how these kinds of things work.
26 Aug 20:40
--You can trial Ubuntu and other distros before you install it for good. You just have to DL and boot off a USB or cd. I used Ubuntu for ages and it was great, I think Mint is another good user friendly distro.
26 Aug 20:11
--I've been thinking about switching to linux once windows 7 is no longer supported, since 8 is horrible and 10 actively blocks you from using software if it thinks it isn't an official version, which is just all kinds of inconvenient. is there a linux starters guide or anything like that floating around?
26 Aug 15:27
--eh, I run linux, that's not normally an issue, I just need all the power this old beast has to work on 300dpi A4 pages - print quality has always killed my machines... one day I'll own something which isn't from the jurassic age
26 Aug 14:50
--booo, do a status check. Mine was out of whack because too many background operations. **pats old Dell
26 Aug 14:46
--anyway, gotta shut fireyfawx so I can use Krita.. the joys of a computer with hardly any ram -_- cya later
26 Aug 14:33
--I'm also training myself to use pens - either free flowing ballpoint, or whatever else smooth flowing I can find, because graphite is too easy for me to hide my mistakes with
26 Aug 14:32
--I can't find a #2 sable brush though, and the #3 is just a wee bit too wide
26 Aug 14:31
--I'm trying to learn how to ink properly.. my chicken scratch is not up to standard
26 Aug 14:26
--I drink too much coffee to use pens. Wiggly lines everywhere, give me graphite any day.
26 Aug 12:33
--Gah, I'm never buying copic multiliners again - the nib has just about vanished inside the damned pen, and it's pretty new, and was expensive compared to stadlter ones...
26 Aug 12:22
--For those interested Lucas Graciano will be on Jeff's channel for live workshop this friday, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BbR5nrxFw
26 Aug 11:26
--I cannot imagine spending that much time on one thing.. heh.. also, I'd have to put it in a locked cage so nobody moved anything.. I live in a houseful of tutubugs
