Creating digital art is rewarding but can be time-consuming without a clear process. Over the years, I have refined my approach to make my workflow more efficient. This post outlines practical steps to optimize your digital art process. The goal is to help you produce quality work faster and with less frustration. Understanding Your Tools for a Better Digital Art Workflow The first step in optimizing your digital art process is knowing your tools inside and out. This includes

For creative professionals—writers managing sprawling novel series, engineers overseeing complex codebases, and researchers building comprehensive knowledge bases—the promise of "Advanced AI" like Google Gemini and NotebookLM was simple: spend money to buy reliability. We expected a sophisticated partner capable of memory, structural integrity, and nuanced collaboration. Initially, that was true. The free version was great, and the paid version offered a bit more stability an

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Remember the promise of AI? Tools that would seamlessly integrate into our lives, enhance our creativity, and streamline our work. For a brief, golden period, some of these new AI-powered features lived up to that promise. They were exciting, functional, and genuinely helpful. But lately, for many, that initial hope has curdled into profound frustration. We're witnessing a disheartening trend: the "enshittification" of once-promising AI services. This isn't just about minor

Insights from 25 Years in Quality Assurance Twenty-five years in Quality Assurance teaches you to spot a bug from a mile away. I’ve developed a feel for a codebase. I understand its rhythms, and I know when something is fundamentally wrong. Recently, I've been running a long-term test case on Google Gemini, a popular AI model. The results are not just frustrating—they're a textbook example of what happens when a company loses its way. Gemini Acknowledges Its Faults The Declin

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A trusted friend offered me a can't-miss opportunity. It was a predatory MLM in disguise. Read my cautionary tale to see the warning signs I almost missed.

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He's supposed to have a tail, we just forgot about it when making the 3D avatar. Turn around angles after the video.

the reverse side of my art is interesting as well.

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I did not have a standard public school experience. My school district had an advanced program, so I was in that from 3rd grade until...

Sometimes Even with the meds You hit a breaking point And I seek the one person To which I can vent Without judgment (fuck that, there's...

I've started work on one of my webcomic projects: PAWS. The Preston Academy for Worldly Scholars normally houses the upper crust's kids...

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After an absence of several years from the drawing game, and specifically, the furry arts game, I've decided it's high-time I return....