Procrastination and Rationalization

More than a year ago @akitku and I decided to try working on a collab together, because I admire her characters and stories so much <3 And now I can finally present the final product of our experiment! And I’d say it’s a success!!!

Christmas is coming up, people start decorating their christmas tree and wrapping up presents for their loved ones, BUT it’s also the season of remembrance. We are sending our love to those we wish here. As every year, loved ones died, relationships ended and friends left. While some of us are happily surrounded by family and friends, there are wars around the world.  This time of year feels like an emotional roller coaster. We want to take this opportunity to tell you that you’re not alone. There is always a winter sun. Please remember to be kind to one another, because wen don’t know what others are going through. Please enjoy our music monday by Patrick Wolf!

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http://www.hopethroughmusic.com

Here are some examples of what it’d look like. So they’d be

line art animations (no background)

the size will be 540x540 pixels max

60 frames max (most examples are between 20 and 40 frames)

2 characters max

Characters drawn preferably from the waist up.

€1,50 per frame

I’ve never done this before, but let me know if you’d want me to animate something for you I guess!

Page 1 of Trolls. Read the rest here.

A female driver of the London Ambulance Service. WWI.

mourner

Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230

So, you put your Windows computer to sleep for the night. You come back the next day all eager to wake it up and put it right to work on that thing you’ve been working on and ….

Oh no - you’ve seemed to have lost all pressure sensitivity and high resolution pen tracking! Well, you figure, why not go check the driver settings. Maybe it’s just groggy and needs a little morning reminder? You go to your Control Panel, click on Wacom Properties Configu—

Ah.

Now, you figure, all is lost and there’s only one thing left to do: save your work, close all your programs, and do a full system restart. What a fun time this is.

But HOLD ON! There’s another way! Try this out first before pulling the plug:

Open your Start menu (or press the Windows Key) and simply type “Services”. There will be an icon at the top of your list which appears to be two small gears with the name “Services.” Click that and look what happens next:

Scroll down the list and select “Wacom Professional Tablet Service” from the list of services and click the little “Restart” link in the column to the left. Now simply wait for the service to stop and start itself back up again!

If for some reason, clicking this little “Restart” button makes matters WORSE, the failsafe approach is the manual restart. Double click the “Wacom Professional Tablet” service and a window will pop up.

Manually stop the Wacom driver by clicking the Stop button. Wait for it to shut down, then start it back up again with the Start button once it becomes visible. Once restarted, click OK!

Test your Tablet now in Photoshop. You may have your pressure sensitivity fully restored!

IF NOT, simply close and reopen Photoshop, which will be nice and quick since it (and your work) are still loaded into recent memory. Yes, this isn’t IDEAL, but it surely beats having to close EVERYTHING and restart the whole computer. Especially if you were listening to a good tune at the time.

Now, providing you’ve done it correctly, (really now, how could you not,) you should find your Wacom’s pressure and tracking sensitivity fully restored! AND you’ll have access to the Tablet Properties config app once again!

Celebrations! For discovering such a wonderful little time saver.

:: ADDENDUM ::

As pointed out by Addleton there is a permanent fix for this issue by disabling the service called “TabletServicePen” if you’re using an Intuos/Bamboo or “Tablet PC Input Service” if you’re using a Cintiq.

Just Rachel being Rachel. She can be a pretty naive teen at times. Because she runs an inn, she rarely gets to participate in and social gatherings the town has. Roderick agrees to be her escort to a local ball so she can be around and have fun with others her age instead of helping road-weary travelers all the time. Rachel has a tendency to daydream about the local boys in town like any other teenage girl. Roderick tries to bring her back down to earth at times LOL! 💜 Happy Wednesday!