@chengdulittlea oh yes, 11h! Litteral pain to the butt, but i'm now arrived on Reunion island. Ready for Pepper and Carrots signing session and conferences ( but tourism too 😎)

wait you have wifi onboard

@chengdulittlea Unfortunately, the wifi option was a paying one , locked behind a portal of the company. I already landed, pick a car and went to my rent, took a big nap, and posted this.
Now it's night, and i feel like in the morning 😆

@chengdulittlea FYI with many airlines if you simply connect to the network, and then turn on a VPN on your computer it'll bypass their paywall and give you free internet.

Maybe something to try on the way home. ;)

@masukomi @chengdulittlea oh, interesting. For sure i'll give it a try with a simple free vpn, for the fun to bypass something 🤓

@jan Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 370, with a Wacom Bamboo stylus. Fedora KDE X11, with tiny modifications and settings tweaks to get a better mobile painting experience. I'll share a guide and review on my blog once i'll be back my trip. 😁

@mariyadelano oh no for your carpal tunnel. For me, it was ok, but i have not tested more than 2h. Also, i was lucky: the seat on my right was empty.

oooh if the seat on the right was empty that makes a lot more sense. I feel like I’d hit the other person in the face with my elbow otherwise 😂😂

“Gotta get that line just right!”

“One more swooping motion….”

*BAM*

“Oh my god I am so sorry I was just trying to fix the curve of this single eyelash”

@mariyadelano 🤣🤣🤣

gotta suffer for art, what else can I say 😂😂

On a serious note - you draw much more consistently than I do, do you have any tips for avoiding pain?

Because honestly I’d be drawing for hours every day if my carpal tunnel didn’t flare up so often 😖

@mariyadelano No idea for a good advice , sorry : i'm on the very lucky type oh hand that can handle the pen/stylus for ~10h per day without any pain.
Before the release of a new episode, I often go up in time budget, and in this case my hand muscle hurts and get tired. When i can't keep the rythme, I just do bath it in cold water, and apply various cream for sport before sleep. It helps. Sometime cream for tired feet too 😆 I had to do that last week for ep38, but i already recovered fully.

do you stretch or do any warm-ups before drawing?

when i've looked for advice before a lot of it boiled down to posture, stretching, and warming up

I wonder if you do that consciously or naturally. Or maybe you simply have better genetics than me 😅

@mariyadelano oh, i can't really praise my genes for many reasons, but on this topic I'm lucky. I don't stretch or do special routine. I usually have the "crepes" effect, i sketch and the first one is always bad, rigid, not in sync. Knowing it will be bad anyway helps me to just get into it without to much anticipation or expectations. It's certainly a warm-up necessary step. I try to get it done at breakfast, (but i'm bad at routine, more like chaos) so i feel ready for the day.

do you think about your posture much? I notice in the airplane picture you're holding the tablet with the other hand and keeping it at a good angle

Do you try to keep your back straight?

@mariyadelano I probably adapt all of that unconsciously. Regarding to drawing, i'm never perfectionnist about condition: seat, light, paper... It's always a "now or never" and "deal with the situation" feeling. It helps on signing session, or plein air drawing.
Oh yes for lifting the display at an angle. It helped me on the plane, maybe because not a lot of room to bend my neck above the device. I'll try to DIY litlle legs I can fold on this device 😁

I think I need to pay more attention to how much I'm bending my neck 👀

I am a bit envious that you don't have to think of these things much, but we've all got our own unique health problems 😅

Appreciate you answering all of my questions here!

@kallaria merci! C'est trop jolie ici 🤩 j'ai hate de sortir la boite d'aquarelle

@savanni oh great! Thanks 👍

@herobrine7gamer hey, it was a less than 1h session, and i asked my wife to take the picture for me 🥰

Cool! I wish I could draw this quick. I usually take a few hours just draw anything, then it doesn't turns out very great. Do you have any tips on drawing faster?

@herobrine7gamer The 'fast' aspect comes by itself on the way, with repetion, imo. I used to take twice or more time on it. It's ok, as long as you enjoy the drawing session, knows where was the challenges and what you did to overcome them.

Well, that's what my art teacher used to say. But at least I improved so much along the way. I used to draw for days. I still remember spending an entire weekend on one drawing. That drawing is still my favorite. but still, I am not completely satisfied with my skills. Do you have any drawing tutorials? I really like your style and so I want to learn about how you draw.