05-23-2021, 05:36 AM
@Artloader - Hello there! Thanks, the gestures drawings are abundant in The Natural Way to Draw book I am currently going through. They are rewarding to create, the ability to get the essence of whatever it is your drawing/creating down in potentially seconds with a gesture drawing is a great tool to have. For the painted gestures I just used some old chep acrylic paints I had laying around.
Thank yous!
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@chubby_cat - Hey, thanks! Hrmmmm, I know of Pinterest, but never knew/thought of using it for organizing imagery. Also, as you stated, I don't really like the idea of having to put all the content I've collected onto an online service - which probably has some limitation(s) (only certain file types / file amount limit / file size limit /ect.) and if not one of those, just the sheer amount of stuff I'd have to upload onto it would take some time lol. Not to mention several other factors of storing stuff online - hope their site doesn't go down for 1 reason or another - hope your internet doesn't go down - potential security risks - hope the site doesn't decided to put up some sorta paywall - ect. But all that said, this isn't to say storing stuff online is a bad idea, just that I don't think it is best to make it your primary way of storing content. Using it as a backup/ease of use secondary type system is a good thing to do.
Lol yeah I get what ya mean, the thought of all this effort being put into creating this system... is it even worth it in the end. Like I said, I have hundreds of thousands of images, so yeah, there are probably images I will never look at or have completely forgotten about. But in a way I think that bolsters up the idea that one should use some form of a organization system. There have been multiple times where I remember certain elements of a picture, and would search my collection & even online again for that picture, but couldn't find it - or situations where it took hours to find a image again. All due to not being labeled/tagged. But with all that said, there will always be content that'll fall into the void, especially if your at the point of having several thousand or more images let alone hundreds of thousands lol. But with a system in place, it gives you the chance to rediscover that stuff rather than if you didn't at all.
Thank you for your perspective on this topic!
Phew! It has been a little while since my last post, sorry about that. I've been drawing regularly, but not doing much of NWTD till a few days ago. I've been looking more into cataloging and storing data. I made a lot of improvements to my system and sorta mishmashed several ideas together with some of my own. So through my researching I found a lot of good stuff I'd like to share some of it.
https://www.digikam.org/ - Program to manage + organize + view all sorts of image formats + gifs + videos
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus - Booru (image board) like program (I haven't used it extensively yet, but it seems like it would be very useful)
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/ - A guide for Hydrus program - even if you don't use the program has very useful info about standardized methods used (specifically in Booru's) about tagging stuffs
https://github.com/Zweibach/text/blob/ma...ontents.md - Another versions of the Hydrus guide, but more simplified
https://github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator...aster/root - A community made folder structure for all things! Though I don't use the exact setup it's a good starting point or to then alter as seen fit or to use as is
https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/ - Can find good info related to organizing & storing all sorts of data
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ - Can find good info related to organizing & storing all sorts of data
Those are some of the man tools + places that I found to be very beneficial in helping me improve upon my organization system overall. But yeah, sorry about that info dump. Just wanted to share some good stuff I found that could potentially help others organize their stuffz.
Thank yous!
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@chubby_cat - Hey, thanks! Hrmmmm, I know of Pinterest, but never knew/thought of using it for organizing imagery. Also, as you stated, I don't really like the idea of having to put all the content I've collected onto an online service - which probably has some limitation(s) (only certain file types / file amount limit / file size limit /ect.) and if not one of those, just the sheer amount of stuff I'd have to upload onto it would take some time lol. Not to mention several other factors of storing stuff online - hope their site doesn't go down for 1 reason or another - hope your internet doesn't go down - potential security risks - hope the site doesn't decided to put up some sorta paywall - ect. But all that said, this isn't to say storing stuff online is a bad idea, just that I don't think it is best to make it your primary way of storing content. Using it as a backup/ease of use secondary type system is a good thing to do.
Lol yeah I get what ya mean, the thought of all this effort being put into creating this system... is it even worth it in the end. Like I said, I have hundreds of thousands of images, so yeah, there are probably images I will never look at or have completely forgotten about. But in a way I think that bolsters up the idea that one should use some form of a organization system. There have been multiple times where I remember certain elements of a picture, and would search my collection & even online again for that picture, but couldn't find it - or situations where it took hours to find a image again. All due to not being labeled/tagged. But with all that said, there will always be content that'll fall into the void, especially if your at the point of having several thousand or more images let alone hundreds of thousands lol. But with a system in place, it gives you the chance to rediscover that stuff rather than if you didn't at all.
Thank you for your perspective on this topic!
Phew! It has been a little while since my last post, sorry about that. I've been drawing regularly, but not doing much of NWTD till a few days ago. I've been looking more into cataloging and storing data. I made a lot of improvements to my system and sorta mishmashed several ideas together with some of my own. So through my researching I found a lot of good stuff I'd like to share some of it.
https://www.digikam.org/ - Program to manage + organize + view all sorts of image formats + gifs + videos
- Free
- Open source
- Updated regularly
- Good search + search via image
- Tags + Labels
- Facial recognition feature
- Deep-learning
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus - Booru (image board) like program (I haven't used it extensively yet, but it seems like it would be very useful)
- Free
- Open source
- Updated regularly
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/ - A guide for Hydrus program - even if you don't use the program has very useful info about standardized methods used (specifically in Booru's) about tagging stuffs
https://github.com/Zweibach/text/blob/ma...ontents.md - Another versions of the Hydrus guide, but more simplified
https://github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator...aster/root - A community made folder structure for all things! Though I don't use the exact setup it's a good starting point or to then alter as seen fit or to use as is
https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/ - Can find good info related to organizing & storing all sorts of data
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ - Can find good info related to organizing & storing all sorts of data
Those are some of the man tools + places that I found to be very beneficial in helping me improve upon my organization system overall. But yeah, sorry about that info dump. Just wanted to share some good stuff I found that could potentially help others organize their stuffz.