Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

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ask-wiggles replied to your photo: “On the topic of self-evaluating my art style, there’s this. The way I…”:
It happens in photoshop too, but you can change your layers to ‘smart objects’ which will make it so that the quality never deteriorates!

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Oh wow, you’re right! And this deteriorated even worse than SAI’s did (5 passes vs. 14)! At least there’s no dark line. :U

Mmm smart layers. Such a great feature (in theory, since I’ve only used it once while testing/experimenting). If only I liked PS as much as I hate it.

On the topic of self-evaluating my art style, there’s this. The way I draw with tons of layers was designed to be easy to edit characters for comic panels, kinda like puppet rigging in Flash. This involves a lot of transforming (moving, rotating, and...

On the topic of self-evaluating my art style, there’s this.

The way I draw with tons of layers was designed to be easy to edit characters for comic panels, kinda like puppet rigging in Flash. This involves a lot of transforming (moving, rotating, and resizing layers).

But SAI does a thing where the more you transform a layer, the lower the quality it attains, creating these annoying fuzzy edges coupled with a dark line that runs along them. The line can be erased with an opacity lock + brush passover, but the fuzziness remains and gets worse with more transforming and soon I’d have to redraw the layer.

I’m handicapped to SAI so I really can’t avoid this, but even after years of drawing in it, this quality drop still pisses me off.

I wonder if this happens in Photoshop, too…

I haven’t changed the way I draw in “lineless” in ages. Last big change was when I switched from airbrushed shadows (to divide limbs) to actual lines and that was around a year ago. Which isn’t that long in general but, in art terms, that’s a long...

I haven’t changed the way I draw in “lineless” in ages. Last big change was when I switched from airbrushed shadows (to divide limbs) to actual lines and that was around a year ago. Which isn’t that long in general but, in art terms, that’s a long stagnation.

But now suddenly, EYES. With pupils! And shine!

PC was recently hit by a small wave of referrals from some shady-as-fuck websites. Antivirus blocked them, so I’m guessing that it’s probably a spam site so don’t try to go there, ya nuts. In other news, samrosemodblog is still the top referrer of...

PC was recently hit by a small wave of referrals from some shady-as-fuck websites. Antivirus blocked them, so I’m guessing that it’s probably a spam site so don’t try to go there, ya nuts.

In other news, samrosemodblog is still the top referrer of Five Angry Horses for yet another straight year, beating out myself in two instances. Which now leads me to believe that Sam is a bot himself.

They're just missing out on the fun. I'm more partial to college football though, my chokies, erm, Hokies know how to make heart attack games

Asked by Anonymous

piratedashmod:

No no no no, you don’t know suffering until you’ve been a lifelong Illini football fan.

The program’s a joke across the country.  You get that one season where it all seemingly comes together every 6-10 years, then get curb stomped in a BCS bowl.  Then go back to 3-9 seasons on average.

No one can ever accuse me of blind love or cult-like behavior towards my teams.  Because I know they’re flawed.

Normally, I’d tease you for the sports and all but then I realize that I and my family are Peruvian soccer fans and our national team hasn’t won a single major tournament since 1982 and has also failed to qualify for the World Cup since then and oh god why ;n;

How to Make Skype 7.0 (“new skype”) Freeze

conspicuouslad:

theauthorman:

postcrusade-mod:

  1. Have window mode set to classic
  2. Accidentally click on some chat, be it group or private
  3. Quickly click on your intended chat.
  4. Enjoy 2-5 minutes of a frozen window

Go fuck yourself, Microsoft.

yeah new skype looks terrible and I unupgraded and set it to not upgrade itself ever pretty much immediately. Good to see that was the correct decision.

On the plus side the ads are gone.

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There are still ads in the “Home” screen thing that no one uses. So that probably doesn’t count as much.

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And they still have this banner hanging over chat screens (and wasting vertical space >:c), but it only seems to advertise how-tos on using the very program you’re currently using. (/’-’)/

Advertising yourself.
~ justskypethings

(Source: post-cactus, via conspicuouslad)