Can't have exercise ball because of lack of space, but I have an ergonomic chair in my house, kinda like this, although I always forget to use it. I think last time I did, my back felt sore from the new way of sitting.

It seems to be working similarly to the ball, but getting used to it is hard ha

Yeah when I was regularly going to the gym, I didn't feel any pain in my lower back. But I stopped going cuz... Well, lack of self discipline. 😑
I also switch between sitting and standing, mostly because sitting is not comfortable.

In my case I suspect signs of hyperlordosis since I have a habit of arching my back too much when I stand so I need something to keep my back properly fixed against something 😮‍💨

The back exercises and just simply being mindful of the posture usually fix my problems, but I just... don't do it 🥲

Also if anyone has a recommendation for a chair, which is below 500 euros, has adjustable/removable arm rests, and provides a nice back support for a 167 cm. tall person, let me know 🫶🏻

Ugh I feel that pain with the Mimikyu card 😩
Still it's nice to see that most of the prettiest cards are so cheap compared to rares it's ridiculous

Tbh I only care about one Pokemon

SAME
(me waiting for Charmander promo card that I bought for €29 because I need it in my life) 🧍🏻‍♀️

Thankfully for my wallet, I decided to collect only cute cards and also started buying singles almost right away 🤝

Also also, thank fuck people sell full art cards for cheap, and I can just collect them and not care about those expensive ass cards or whatever.

I didn't know you were also here! Gonna find you 👀❤️

Bro just learned the word bourgeois and uses it everywhere like a 6 year old.

Speaking about strokes and angles, only a few styluses/brushes support the angle rotation. Smudge, blend and shading options also rely on programming, which differs from one software to other. Some artists even use 2-3 programs for different stages of painting because of that.

Pencils and real brushes allow for more control that only depend on your muscles and hand gestures.

Stylus movements are artificially supported by the pressure settings and the software you use. It's much harder to learn good pressure control with digital media. Not to mention the color mixing.

You can do it💪🏻
The valley period feels like eternity and it's mostly suffering, but once you learn to love the "suffering" it actually gets interesting (but not easy ha)

Kinda like muscle training. If you do squads and don't feel your glutes burning - then you are doing them wrong lol.

This thread dedicated to my frustration over not being able to do an oil study of a piece of lemon because I got burned out after years of painting digital "classical" looking art and forgot how to use normal art tools 😠👊🏻

That multiply/overlay pipeline is so frustrating. Cuz it's useful if you know what you are doing. But if not, then the whole process just becomes a shiny wrapper for a tasteless candy.
And once you get used to these layers, it's so frustrating and painful to even do studies without them. Been there😔

I never went to art school too and learned from YouTube. But I got into digital art too soon so my color theory and anatomy learning happened in Photoshop. Which sucks in the long run.
Always nice to have a balance. Learning traditionally as much as you can, and utilizing that knowledge digitally.

Being restrained is good. The "freedom" of digital art is a trap from which it is hard to escape for a lot of people.
A lot of people who are great with light and color digitally can't do the same with normal paints because they rely on layer effects to do all the job.

Without knowing why it looks wrong in the first place. Without knowing what mistake you did. Because you did have control over your mistakes. You put the filter over your painting, "photobashed" the drawing with filters.

That's why it's so hard and frustrating.

As a result, you don't increase the contrast or change colors because you know that they should be changed. You do it because the program has that ability and it feels fancy to bedazzle your painting with different effects. And once you go overboard you spend hours trying to fix it.