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# Fuckin Fucking Fucking Fail
I know none of you care but I've been trying to put together a digital portfolio of work in my spare time so that I can leave my shitty dead-end job that saps away all my creative energy and leaves me like a shriveled impotent oldman's cock

I spent several hours of my free time learning how to do this



So delighted with my hard work was I that I thought I'd post it on b3ta
I saved my image as a new file in low res so I could post it here. Somewhere along the line, I got muddled as to which I was working from and hit 'save' rather than 'save as'

 this is all I have to show for hours of work

I hope you enjoy it, I'm going to go and jump off a bridge now to avoid going to work tomorrow morning.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:14, archived)
# I bet you spent hours photoshopping off her bra
(I helped save b3ta! monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:15, archived)
# Eep
Sorry sir :/
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:15, archived)
# *kicks*
*runs*
(I helped save b3ta! kingsuperspecial is in an audience, wanking furiously, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:17, archived)
# *shakes fist*
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# *giggles like a girl*
*awaits further retaliation*
(I helped save b3ta! kingsuperspecial is in an audience, wanking furiously, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# Not while you're expecting it
That's no fun
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# You are so cruel

noon miss!
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:56, archived)
# 'noon sir!
*polite glomps*
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:13, archived)
# that's lovely, that is!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:16, archived)
# That is really shitty
I assume that you failed to save a PSD as you worked? ( That will be something you must get used to )

Still, your efforts are to be commended. That's some nice work.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:16, archived)
# I'm going to rebind my save keys to save as
and keep a read only copy on another harddrive in another country before I publish my work online
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# I always do incremental saves in PSD
as I work and when it comes to publish I simply avoid the save button and use the 'save for web and devices' function. That way your work and web images are never the same pieces and you can't lose your work.
I know it just sounds like a load of old wank in hindsight but it is standard practice if you want to go into that kind of work.
"I pressed the wrong save" is no excuse for missing a deadline ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# It never occured to me that I might do something that stupid
I'll start a new routine for my next image

although I think I'll have a little wank and cry first
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:23, archived)
# That's pretty much how I dealt with losing my dissertation about a week before hand in.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# FUCK
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# It was only a Physics dissertation, 6000 words.
Managed to rewrite it in time, but it was pretty upsetting.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I can very much imagine
At least you got it sorted but I very much felt for you in the moments first reading that
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# I will not make the same mistake for my MSc project.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:30, archived)
# i accidently deleted 30gigs of my life
i moved them from one h/d to another, didn't check to see if it had all moved (it hadn't) and i deleted it all
oh well - live and learn
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# Ouch.
Lose anything serious?
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:39, archived)
# yes
all the pictures from 1996 upto 1998 and all my music etc etc - luckily enough i downloaded PCI file recovery and managed to get about 80% of it back
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:50, archived)
# What was it on?
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:32, archived)
# paper, probably
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:33, archived)
# The effects of UV radiation,
so lots of atmospheric scattering/absorption, vitamin D production, and skin cancer type stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# Sounds fun,
I have no idea what I'll do mine on
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# It was alright.
Seeing as I was trying to get into Medical Physics afterwards, it seemed the best choice.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:38, archived)
# aww, just buy another off the net ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I probably should have done,
I didn't get a particularly good mark.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# eeep
i used to do incremental saves when i was doing my music tech a-level. ended up with about 1000 saves per completed piece.

but have stopped doing taht, probably will for my diss when i start it as it makes the most sense
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# save it to disc as you go
it's worth doing for a few pennies, have also had
a throwing baby out with bathwater experience.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# well i'm not getting paid for owt i do on my pc
so i don't need to worry too much. and my next essay's only 3000 words

main thing with my Mus tech was that it was all sequencing, so if i fucked owt up it'd have been a bitch to go back and find out where
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# another good trick is to set up an automated ftp task to your webserver
so that you can press a button and magically get an offsite backup every week

this is no good if you don't have any private directories on your webspace though
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:49, archived)
# You wrote your whole dissertation in one sitting without saving once?
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:27, archived)
# No, I'd been saving.
but word managed to crash and remove all traces of the file.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# ^this
although i'm told i managed to more or less delete word and all that went with it, and at the time i only had a floppy drive so saving stuff and getting stuff printed was a mare. if i wanted to write i'd have done english not an art degree.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:31, archived)
# do you not even have the line art
saved? If so I can re-ink it and blow it up massive for you if you fancied the colouring again. There can't be more than an hours work in it now you know the technique.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# as luck would have it
I did all my digital inking in illustrator so that is safe

I'm a bad hand at line art - it was the coloring I was trying to learn

I guess I could do it again sometime, and in all fairness this project was pretty arbitrary, it was just about teaching myself the techniques

I'll do something a bit different now
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# If you are serious then I would suggest
that you buy as many of the tutorials as you can afford from here
www.digitalarttutorials.com/
Brian Haberlin is probably at the top of that game. If you can only afford one then get either the comic book style or the smudge painting style, It will transform how you approach this stuff.
This was the first piece I made when I was learning digital rendering 2D and thanks to the tutorial it did not turn out too bad.
zootcadillac.deviantart.com/art/Apocalyptic-Rhino-59995837
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:42, archived)
# that is so very woo!
I know the feeling, done that sort of thing many a time... Just that moment you realise what you've just done, and franticly looking for another save of the file... Ugh!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:16, archived)
# What's wrong with it?
Work is shit, dude, the trick is to remember that It's Only Work. Believe me, sometimes mine stresses me out to the point of lunacy sometimes, but you can't let it affect the time you spend away from it.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:16, archived)
# Work is fucking great.
Some weeks I even do some.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:19, archived)
# Mine is bollocks, utter piss. But sod it.
My mate keeps threatening to open a porn shop and ask me to manage it, but never actually going through with it. Why must he taunt me so?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:19, archived)
# I both completely agree with this
...and am aware that I am failing majorly at it.

I've always been pretty chilled with work stuff, I work my arse off while there and don't let it get to me when I'm not. But after over 2 years of various amounts of shit, one particular strain almost ensuring I never get to work in the industry again for doing exactly nothing wrong, I'm finding it very difficult to return to programming as usual.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:19, archived)
# Oh believe me, what I've just wrote in no way reflects the way I actually deal with it
what's written above is pretty much what my friends keep saying to me. I'm....getting there, but am still quite affected in my free time. But I know it's not the way it should be.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:21, archived)
# I know what you mean.
to be very honest if I had to rely on 9-5 employment working in drudgery I would be on the dole. I simply can not work to anyone else's schedule than the one I set nor can I have people telling me what I should be doing. I know what I should be doing.
I'm told I'm a good boss though. I have very exacting standards and don't accept the same mistake twice but I'm generous when good workers make my life easy.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# Got anything I can do from Derby
or only travelling a few days a week to?

I'm surprisingly more multi-talented than I commonly let on
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:27, archived)
# if you can use a tape measure
a dewalt and a jigsaw without cutting your hands off I might give you a go on the BA contract at Birmingham International. I'm sure the boys will need coffee and sarnies ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:31, archived)
# Pfffft
I can more than look after myself with DIY, but I'm certainly not qualified (/experienced) to work professionally.

Also, I'm pretty sure you'd only have to fire me after the second time you 'accidently' got sawdust in your sarnie after making that request.
I do make a mean sarnie, but if I'm not even going to get angry sex with the ex-boss I don't see it being worth the commuting.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:35, archived)
# haha.
I'll have to see my accountant and ask him what the tax breaks are for 'office harlot' ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:50, archived)
# My work have a nasty habit of chucking people in at the deep end
which is kind of what's happened to me. 6 months on, I've got the hang of it, am still a little unsure but godo at my job nevertheless. Which is bad, because working well gets rewarded with More Stuff To Do. Bastards.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# I seem to have posted that in the wrong place
but I guess it worked, kinda.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:29, archived)
# I have no idea.
To be honest, if I didn't have you lot to tell this stuff to I'd probably just carve each word into consecutive passers by with a thin knitting needle.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:32, archived)
# b3ta is great to unload on. Though
I'm still very subjective about what I say. I have actually had a seriously bad month involving deaths, suicide and numerous cancers. All the fodder that gives your average b3tan glee to take the piss out of.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# Crikey, yes, I see what you mean.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:38, archived)
# My friend Dave, who I gre up with
as he lived next door, Hung himself on Sunday last week. He was a successful gymnasium owner but women fucked him up. The reason it is hard to tell b3ta is that it was in Cardiff. WALES! WTF is up with that place?
It was too near to the Bridgend stuff for me to dare to tell b3ta last week.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:00, archived)
# It's half the reason I struggle to understand why you can come on sometimes just to be cuntish
It may not be the right forum but some people really do see this place like a bit of a twisted community. I've met some of my best friends on here.
Hell, someone that is turning out to be nothing less than a soul mate (should I give in and buy into such ridiculous concepts) I first spoke to on here.

The rules are a bit odd, basically because there aren't any! but I'd struggle to be my often careless self in the face of what I suspected to be genuine 'real life' issues.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:07, archived)
# I don't come here to be cuntish.
I come here wanting a bit of fun and a nice time. It is spiteful haters and idiots who drive me to being outspoken.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:21, archived)
# I'm really sorry to hear that, sir.
*proffers foaming pint of ale*


(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:54, archived)
# cheers. *guzzles*
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:57, archived)
# you'n a programmer girl?
*makes the effort to pander a bit more*
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:52, archived)
# Reading repsonses like this makes me believe I'm actually quite lucky here in working for myself.
extreme discipline, constant motivation, and many more hours than most 9-5 jobs, but on the upside, I do f*ckin' LOVE my work.
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:33, archived)
# what this guy said
except i found that the discipline thing surprisingly easy. for a lifelong slacker, i can't really explain it
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:43, archived)
# same here, when I started 8 years ago
I was worried about the motivation and discipline thing, but it is suprisingly easy to get around - I find now the worst thing is not knowing when to 'switch off'
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:49, archived)
# the worst thing is not knowing
that the fucking builder lives in the real world and knows better than you! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:02, archived)
# I can cite numerous examples from my own work where that statement is utter bollocks :)
/it's a two-way street this road ;)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 16:32, archived)
# *high fives*
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:57, archived)
# thats a rather sultry
and angry looking lady. Nice work
(I helped save b3ta! sPUNKer do your pictures for nothing get abuse for free, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:17, archived)
# it's still a little too big to post here
/probably not helping blog :(

it's ace btw
(I helped save b3ta! kingsuperspecial is in an audience, wanking furiously, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:17, archived)
# I promise to give you your 8k back another time
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# A sad tale, and horribly familiar...
Still, the lo-res version is lovely!
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:17, archived)
# Ah, the old 'save' instead of 'save as' bastard...
It's great stuff, all the same, sir.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# Wow! I magine how annoyed you'd have been if it'd been something good!
Only joking!
(I helped save b3ta! kinks rock over London, rock on Chicago, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# is it cheryl baker?
(I helped save b3ta! KittyVomit more super than a can of Tennants, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# nice boobies
Woo

Edit: Have some more boobies


(mr sausage wanks merrily, not furiously, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# that's fab, that
sorry to hear the big version got munged :(
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# This is luverly.
I have developed OCD regarding file saving after a similar incident many moons ago.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# It certainly won't happen again
at least I have the vectors saved separately

all the flats, frame and colouring have gone though
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# She looks like you appear to feel . . .
nice but upset . . .
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:23, archived)
# I hate it when that happens :(
great work nonetheless
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:29, archived)
# Thats rather nice.
When you saved by mistake, did you try going back up the history to before you flattened and changed the image size? It should have let you go back and save again, so long as you havent closed the image after.
(I helped save b3ta! nastybadger, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# ^ THIS
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:44, archived)
# just put white space all around it.
and present it as is.
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:39, archived)
# Ouch!
It's fantastic work nontheless.

And I guess that if you use export rather than save, you'll have less of a problem going back in history and all that.

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(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:43, archived)