Save your work. I cannot stress this enough. 

Back it up and save multiple drafts and files of your electronic media. Especially major mile stones and turning points in a different file. 

Just in case in case "something" happens. 

Things can and always will happen unexceptionally.

 

This rarely happens to me in now in days, I know better. When this does it sucks majorly and is disastrous soul eating and crushing experience. I'm disappointed in myself because yes I am usually paranoid with saving. Save save save. I've lost tons of work before: hard drive damage, had it corrupted, you name it, power outages and when I as a teenager I don't how many times I trashed and experimented with my computer that I had to reinitialize. I mean I had one of my computers spontaneously catch on fire...and by some miracle this computer still works without the sound. >___> Let me tell you Dell computers are tanks.



I'm pretty mad because there is no way I can honestly bill the client for that time of redoing the work. I wouldn't feel right about that. I was working on something on a web browser for their project and had to refresh because it wasn't working right and it erased my work!!!  I mean it only was an hour worth of work. But going back and redoing that segment will be a pain.

The only plus side is at least after finishing that segment, I figured a method with a quicker solution to replace the lost work. Its just I'm not up for a soul crushing experience and moral of the story mood. Yay and nay for OJT. Now it just regaining the motivation and focus to do said work.
I'm so fortunate that there isn't a set or upcoming deadline on this project. This is a freelance job so I can work on this when I want, but I need to show some progress and milestones because well professionalism. Professionalism means getting assigned work done and delivered in a timely and efficient manner.





Life is ironic. Ironically Icecube's "Check Yourself" came up on my playlist while coming to grips with this debacle. And I didn't check myself so I wrecked myself. ugh part of the moral of the story.






So lesson here one cannot stress enough is save your work and have a duplicate file here and there.

Almost done. Pretty much fully rendered. Used Copic markers and Copic paper. Man, I've somewhat become one of those artists who take forever to complete something. 😩

Just need to work on the background and some minor details. I'll probably use airbrush for the background, the compressor is so loud I have to use it in the day time before 9pm.

Yep, I like colors.

I was nervous rendering the red cape, I didn't want it to take away from the face. I don't have much red colors but I was able to layer some pink to add color and not just use red. Same with the blue hair. Markers is a medium where once you place your mark its permanent.



It's nice around this time of year, work slows down and I have more time to myself. I haven't been off a full weekend in months. To me more so than spring I feel like fall is more of a time of metamorphosis and change. I do fall cleaning instead of spring. 






Well peace and take care peeps.