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Mark Englert
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Work locally!

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Two days ago, I found out the hard way that the best way to work digitally is to work locally, meaning, when you're, say, coloring a page, it's best that the page you're working be stored on you're main drive, NOT an external drive.

For years, I stored all my art on a separate, external hard drive, leaving my main drive freed up with more scratch disk space and once I was done with a file, it was already back up on an external drive in case I got a virus or something and had to reformat my computer. Seems like a good plan and that worked out fine for a long time, BUT, turns out it's not the best way to do things. Long story short, I worked several hours coloring up a splash page for Hack Slash #2 and LOST it while I was saving the final version. It was not recoverable, the file somehow got scrambled and I was left with an unopenable PSD file. I sat for hours trying to get it to open, but nothing worked and now I'm sitting her recoloring a whole page from scratch, argh!

So, lesson learned, I now work from my main drive, and when I'm done with an entire issue, copy that over to the external drive and delete it from my main drive. I also find, even though my external drive is firewire and plenty fast, that load times and saves are a bit quicker when working from my main drive, so, bonus!



****LOST SPOILER****



P.S. I attended Jay and Jack's LOST finale party and watched the series end with 2000 fans at the Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles. I managed to make it all the way to the end without shedding a tear, but when Vincent laid down next to Jack, I lost it... sigh.
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Upping my game.

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I'm feeling pretty good about my coloring these days. Rather than just slapping on some colors in a huge rush to get a book out over a weekend, I've actually been taking my time a bit more and applying painting methods I haven't used in years, favoring quick cuts and primarily local colors.

I'll see if I get any reaction from the effort I've been putting in, but it pleases me to see progress if nothing else comes from it.

While I work, I've been putting on Star Trek: The Next Generation on in the background. I plan to go straight through all 7 seasons and the 4 movies and see how it all holds together. I just finished season 1, which was a lot better than I remember, but still painfully dull at times.

I also got a chance to play the first hour or so of Uncharted 2.... I definitely see what all the fuss is about! I'm hoping I can get more gaming time in soon, but it doesn't look too good for the rest of the month, anyway.

Alright, back to work.
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At last, I have made a deviantART profile! I'll do my best to keep it updated and exciting for whoever might happen upon it.

-Mark
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