Hey guys, I can't believe it happened again... but we just had a major power outage in my area. I was quite literally 20-30 minutes away from finishing the page I had been working on since the 27th, when the power shut out.
When I got back into photoshop, I found out that the file had totally corrupted and I lost everything.
I spent the last 3 hours trying to find a way to recover at least some of it, but with no luck. Like an idiot, I hadn't backed the file up this time.
I'm going to be working to try and get back on track, but I don't know when the next page is going up. I'm really sorry to patrons that I'm going to miss an update because of carelessness. I'm installing backup software so this doesn't happen a third time.
Anyway, here's a page from my backlog. Have a good day!
Loosing 3-4 days worth of work sucks. What's causing the blackouts? The cold weather?
Anyway giving the torch to the alchemist, who is likely carrying around easily flameable stuff? Not the wisest of decisions - and that includes his pipe not even counting whatever he is smoking, yet.
Small target anyways. Less pants maybe run faster?
Save your cleaned lineart into 2 separate files, then consider the same when completing panels. You will have 3 or 4 extra files when done but no big deal.
It's not going to come up til much later, but since you asked...
His fighting style is based on a mix of Celtic and Norse berserkers, who'd get naked before flying into a rage and plunging themselves suicidally at their enemies.
What is it with dwarves and pants? One takes his trousers off when he comes out of the dungeon , one takes his off when he goes in. Are there two tribes here.
With apologies to Bloom County :
Dwarf A: "Trousers *on* in battle, *off* at home!"
Dwarf B: "no, you ninny! It's trousers *off* in battle and *on* at home!"
Dwarf A: "On!"
Dwarf B: "Off!"
Dwarf A:"ON!"
Dwarf B:"OFF!"
Dwarf C: "Um... excuse me, but I seem to be wearing a kilt."
Dwarves A and B: "YOU GO WAIT IN THE HALL, HEATHEN!"
Preferences -> File Handling
there should be a Checkbox for automatic file recovery saving and a dropdown menu where ya can select the time Intervall....
or i remember wrong... -.-
im using GIMP so don´t know :D
i will investigate that :/
The knight has an emotionless mask that looks exactly like her face. In just three panels you know, on a primal level, you never want to be in the same room as her.
Ouch! Losing work due to power outage is extremely, extremely annoying. You have my sympathies...
I've experienced this enough times in the past that nowadays I'm just paranoid about saving my work every other minute, just in case. It's like an automatic reflex nowadays, that I don't even notice I'm doing it anymore. :-D
And I've learned the hard way that hardware, while all nice and good while it works, does have the extremely annoying tendency to suddenly, randomly, fail for no discernible reason after years of faithful service. Always, always keep a backup of important work in multiple places. Preferably at least one offline / remote backup service in case the unthinkable happens and your local PC just gives up the ghost suddenly (it happens! even though we all wish it never does!).
Also, if it's not too much trouble for you, I'd highly recommending using version control software for all of your work. Usually people only use such software for program code, but I have found it invaluable in serving as a quick backup service -- usual backup methods don't keep a history of your files, so should you be unlucky enough to accidentally backup a corrupt file, all hope is lost. Revision control software, OTOH, lets you take periodic backups and roll back by however many revisions necessary to get back to the last good version, should that ever become necessary. Plus, it gives you more freedom in exploring different versions of a particular piece of work, since you won't need to fear overwriting a previous good version should you later decide that the current experiment is a failure and you'd like to go back to a previous good idea. Every version is always retrievable from revision history. While all of this is theoretically possible to do by hand, that is usually very tedious, error-prone, and a headache to manage, and simply not worth the effort when revision software can just automate it all for you.
Thanks for the advice. I'm not sure what revision history is or how to get it working on my computer, but I have already set up external hard drives and backups that will keep this problem from happening again.
Ever thought of making a double save? There's a way to rig Photoshop so when you save it makes two copies. You'd have to make it through an action button, but that way if you lose a copy you have a backup just in case.
Like the British Royals. An Heir and a Spare
That sucks man; I've felt the pain of lost work...the worst part is the kicking of oneself, "if only I'd *insert logical action here*, aaaargh!!!"
But hey; great post of group 2; I definitely want the alchemist and the barbarian to survive. Anyone who smokes a pipe and/or rips off their pants to prepare for battle deserves to live in my book
Anyway giving the torch to the alchemist, who is likely carrying around easily flameable stuff? Not the wisest of decisions - and that includes his pipe not even counting whatever he is smoking, yet.
Alexus the Alchemist gets stuck with the torch because everyone else's hands are full.
Save your cleaned lineart into 2 separate files, then consider the same when completing panels. You will have 3 or 4 extra files when done but no big deal.
His fighting style is based on a mix of Celtic and Norse berserkers, who'd get naked before flying into a rage and plunging themselves suicidally at their enemies.
He just wears pants in town for decencies' sake.
Dwarf A: "Trousers *on* in battle, *off* at home!"
Dwarf B: "no, you ninny! It's trousers *off* in battle and *on* at home!"
Dwarf A: "On!"
Dwarf B: "Off!"
Dwarf A:"ON!"
Dwarf B:"OFF!"
Dwarf C: "Um... excuse me, but I seem to be wearing a kilt."
Dwarves A and B: "YOU GO WAIT IN THE HALL, HEATHEN!"
I like your work realy much, reading this Comic since the begining over and over again.
still 2 things i wana mention.
1) no one ever smokes a pipe like that, it´s so wrong, it hurts my eyes :D
2) im still curios about the teas on page 2-35.
wana know what and who they are!!!!
but still i love this comic
Who says he's smoking what you think he's smoking?
maybe we can help with the autosave Options!
interesting.....
Preferences -> File Handling
there should be a Checkbox for automatic file recovery saving and a dropdown menu where ya can select the time Intervall....
or i remember wrong... -.-
im using GIMP so don´t know :D
i will investigate that :/
I've experienced this enough times in the past that nowadays I'm just paranoid about saving my work every other minute, just in case. It's like an automatic reflex nowadays, that I don't even notice I'm doing it anymore. :-D
And I've learned the hard way that hardware, while all nice and good while it works, does have the extremely annoying tendency to suddenly, randomly, fail for no discernible reason after years of faithful service. Always, always keep a backup of important work in multiple places. Preferably at least one offline / remote backup service in case the unthinkable happens and your local PC just gives up the ghost suddenly (it happens! even though we all wish it never does!).
Also, if it's not too much trouble for you, I'd highly recommending using version control software for all of your work. Usually people only use such software for program code, but I have found it invaluable in serving as a quick backup service -- usual backup methods don't keep a history of your files, so should you be unlucky enough to accidentally backup a corrupt file, all hope is lost. Revision control software, OTOH, lets you take periodic backups and roll back by however many revisions necessary to get back to the last good version, should that ever become necessary. Plus, it gives you more freedom in exploring different versions of a particular piece of work, since you won't need to fear overwriting a previous good version should you later decide that the current experiment is a failure and you'd like to go back to a previous good idea. Every version is always retrievable from revision history. While all of this is theoretically possible to do by hand, that is usually very tedious, error-prone, and a headache to manage, and simply not worth the effort when revision software can just automate it all for you.
Like the British Royals. An Heir and a Spare
But hey; great post of group 2; I definitely want the alchemist and the barbarian to survive. Anyone who smokes a pipe and/or rips off their pants to prepare for battle deserves to live in my book