Art Habits Meme

(aka: i have a messyass setup)

Tagged by @crazy-fruit because she wanted to make this a thing LOL (check out her meme, as well as @spacepandar‘s original post that led up to this)

Here are my terrible habits (for digital drawings, anyway) :

1. Three. Monitor. System. these days i’m picky and this is absolutely necessary now. This is a product of about 5 years of saving money and waiting on black friday sales + end-of-year student sales
2. I have a supremely specific setup with them: I absolutely need to have white noise in the form of TV that i don’t have to pay full attention to; I cannot have my navigator in the same monitor as my tablet (for color and perspective checking purposes), and; one monitor must have reference drawings and mood photos, which, more often than not, spill over to the third monitor. if that changes, i start to feel trapped and cranky by the “loss of space”
3. does anyone ever label their layers? i don’t >__> i know that’ll bite me in the ass. i do group my layers in general folders though (one folder for sketch, one for lineart, one for color, etc.)
4. RAM usage up the wazoo + GPU overload. No one monitor looks the same because of their color settings, so i have to move my navigator between all my monitors to make sure the color looks alright in each of them before i post. every hour or so, I stop and check out something on my browser tabs, spiking the RAM usage, and my monitors black out for a minute before coming back to life

if you’re interested in telling us your (terrible) art habits and/or showing us your drawing setup (digital or traditional), feel free to @hoofgirl @unicornsniper @fukamidori-chan!

Update: this post got flagged despite the censorship of female-presenting nipples, thx tumblr (liking my decision to stop posting my stuff here more and more now)