a few RARE Wyit pencil sketches (Patreon)

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If any of you follow announcements and artposts on my Telegram channel you probably heard my computer had a pretty nasty crash with its boot/OS drive last Tuesday, leaving me without digital drawing access until yesterday. That, and I had to spend like 12 hours on Wednesday presiding at an exhausting legal deposition.

No computer, stuck in a room all day, WAT DO??? Return to traditional media, that's what.

Aside from a few visual notes I'd hardly call drawings, I haven't sketched in pencil in years, so I was kind of surprised when the drawing on the right turned out rather satisfying. I used to do alright with pencil up until about 2013, when it became extremely hard for me to draw with anything other than really high-contrast inks.

Somehow, the figure shape system I developed in my digital drawing since 2018 helped out a lot here.

So, yeah, it doesn't matter what medium you practice drawing in, just as long as you're learning with it.

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Figure drawings for this month are still on the way, just expect a  delay while I'm catching up after the computer issues.

ALL of my art files were backed up and are totally intact, so you can rest easy there. However my livestream broadcast preferences might have been lost with the drive crash. I'm going to attempt DIY data recovery with an external drive-enclosure, but if that doesn't work, it might take me a couple days to rebuild my Streamlabs settings from scratch before I can livestream again.

This whole debacle set me back a lot in terms of lost work hours, buying a replacement M.2 NVMe SSD and external enclosure for the old drive. Normally it would've been no problem to reinstall Windows with a USB on the new drive, but for some reason it wasn't working (it accepted Linux, oddly), so after trying everything for 24 hours I took my rig in to BestBuy for diagnostics & repair. They got it working fine, but they take a heavy fee.

So, I will be selling art originals soon to help recoup some of these expenses. Patreon/Subscribestar members will get a discount code, which I'll post here when the shop opens back up.

Thanks again for all of your continued support! Monthly pledges go a LONG way to making setbacks like this a lot less catastrophic than they normally would be.