HOW DOES IT TAKE YOU 7 MINUTES TO DO A PAGE ????? THATS HOW LONG IT TAKES ME TO DRAW 1 CHARACTER
well god had to give me sOMETHING--
i mean the short, boring answer is "lots of practice." the longer answer is more like, "weeelll..."
to be fair, 'seven minutes' is just the ballparked average. some pages obviously take longer, and some are way quicker. here's an actual full-length speedpaint video so you can kind of see what i'm doing a little better--
so it's not like i'm ACTUALLY spending seven minutes on each page... obviously, some of the more complicated pages take longer, and then others i can cheat a little. if a character is doing a similar pose that they've already done in a previous page, i can save a ton of time by either copy-pasting and editing it a little, or by re-tracing things i've already drawn. that brings the overall time down and alters the average. so that's part of it. also keep in mind that these are all just very loose sketches. 🤷🏻♂️
for some more perspective (and also just for funsies--)
according to procreate, this piece (just the first, full-color one) took just under two hours.
this piece took about four hours and forty-five minutes.
this piece was four hours.
this piece was two and a half hours.
this piece was half an hour.
this piece took four hours.
and just the first panel alone of this comic took about three hours.
hey so because im unemployed and bored and hate goodreads because i almost exclusively read fics, i created a pretty easy to use reading tracker/database to get all the juicy reading stats.
woke up randomly in the night and my flatmate is in the bathroom so I can't go pee and immediately go back to sleep incident 7493 dead 19923 casualties
i like keeping all my wips open because otherwise they go straight into "i forgor"-ville (population? everything im not currently staring at.)
my laptop fucking HATES it though. very unsupportive of you, bestie. wdym you can't handle the weight of 12 different overly ambitious projects at once?? massive you problem, you inanimate object.
evil... some of the recipes you unlock at hotm8 require umber and tungsten plates. not a huge deal..... except you dont unlock those until umber/tungsten 10.....
omfg i keep complaining about how much i hate my geography class but i kept taking it because i figured since the course was SO easy that id be getting a good grade but inexplicably my teacher is the worlds harshest grader. i just got told i have an 82 which is not bad by any means but i knowwww i should be having a 90 at least. well tbf im hardly giving it my all but still for this level of work… well most ppl i think have a 60-70 so i guess im okay…. anyways i might end up dropping the class after all 🤪
tbh part of me is kind of dreading malenia this time around. most other bosses ive taken on w this build hav been easier, n i feel like malenia is gonna nip my optimism in the bud
im on a dozen or so streak with tradle getting them within five without referencing anything. the only one i failed was my first one and it was zambia of all things (didnt know to look for fishery exports for landlocked countries yet and wasted half my guesses on stuff like namibia and mozambique) but todays was my first close call in a while. went fucking around in nepal and found out 16000 km to the southwest isnt (ironically) in the area north of zambia. then i forgot i was looking for landlocked and wasted a guess on uruguay. whatevered my way into bolivia for #4 and got it on 5. this is a fun game and im enjoying playing it fast and loose like this but at some point im gonna make too many quick guesses and regret breaking my streak lol
i dont pay much attention to global listening stats on spotify cuz i just listen to shit i like but sometimes ill see smth and be like how tf do they have so many/few plays on this??? like my impression of how popular some artists are is so WILDLY disconnected from real life