New PROJECT Page is UP! >> Cosplay Alice (#wip)

Boooy, this is taking longer than I’ve ever expected. Normally, inking is the fastest part of any project I’d done (flatting’s the second). However, little did I know, that the moment I decided to do all the inking on an actual COMPUTER (ie. with a drawing tablet etc), using a more “sophisticated” drawing softwares I’ve doomed the the entire timeline to an infinite stretch. Well, infinite may be exaggerating it a bit. Anyhow, there’s reason for me saying this. It went like this:

Shortly after I started inking in photoshop (on a Win 7 PC tower), the software started crashing after every time I pressed SAVE. Okay, that was annoying, but I could deal with it, right? Right! Except that the PC began to freeze when I started photoshop soon after I finished the first piece of inking, the Hatter Alice. At this point, I decided to completely get rid of all the Adobe suite stuff from my PC (they’re freaking huge and eat up my CPU+GPU capacity anyway), bite the bullet and purchase CLIP Studio Pro/Ex. To be fair, the bullet is not that bad, as CLIP Studio is waaaaaay cheaper than any of the Adobe CS app. That went pretty well and so the next 11 pieces of Cosplay Alice’s inking were done in CLIP Studio EX. Due to my stupid work/experiments schedule, I settled for “ink as much as I can any day I manage to touch the PC at night, and spend all other away-time (eg. commute and waiting on meals) on colouring in Procreate on iPad.” This worked pretty well, until recently when the tower PC finally died completely, and that’s where we are now. To be frank, the death of the tower PC is not that much an issue for me as I just got myself another Win 10 laptop recently, which makes a perfect replacement for the role of the tower. The annoying thing is just the set up (software and hardwares), which is gonna take some time.

And so, that’s why this whole thing’s taking this long. Not much of an excuse, but here we are. At the end of the day, I’m gonna finish this project one way or another, and although the progress have been frustratingly slow so far, the Alices are coming along slowly but surely. Nevertheless, to make up for the slow progress (makeup to myself mainly) of the project, I decided to start posting up completed pieces here as soon as I have each one ready, instead of the all-at-once post that I usually made.