{"id":7797,"date":"2019-10-16T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2019-10-16T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:02:45","slug":"7797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/7797","title":{"rendered":"This month’s Daily Reckoning (a couple weeks late)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Whew, what a month, fans! I was using my three-month old laptop, and it started acting SUPER sluggish. I finally decided, I’d better save and close everything that’s open, and as I got through about three quarters of it all (I had a lot of art open for my upcoming Brush with Peril project), it suddenly went blue and told me the computer had crashed unexpectedly, and then a timer began of when it would be done re-amassing info to send to the support team so that this hopefully doesn’t happen again. And then it never turned back on again.<\/div>\n
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As I slowly let this sink in, I began thinking about how much work I had done and not backed up. Good news – I had recently backed up the completed Doris Danger volume three.\u00a0 But then, upon finishing that, I realized I’d been working on a bunch of stuff for the upcoming Brush with Peril. I had spent a few days researching all the famous artwork that I had referenced in all my previously drawn pages, often six or ten images per page, and finding the dates completed and museums where you could find all these pieces. I had re-organized all these footnoted references so that there was a master list of all artists alphabetically referenced, and all museums alphabetically listed including websites. I had spent a few days finding new and not-yet used artwork, including dates and museums – in particular a dozen Monet lily pads, a few dozen of Degas’ ballerinas, and a couple dozen Daumier audiences.\u00a0 And I had constructed digital page lay-outs of maybe twenty pages of the penultimate battle between my spies and the Degas ballerinas.\u00a0 It came to me slowly all this work I had done, and I figured out that it was about a month of un-backed-up material.<\/div>\n
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Amazingly, I was able, as a Costco-purchased computer, to send it in to have it repaired free of charge! However, there was the issue of trying to get back all this data. I took it to the local shop, which said the hard drive was corrupted and all data was gone!<\/div>\n
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A couple years ago, I was in New York and my cell phone suddenly stopped, and I lost a day of photos and videos. Same situation – my data was gone. BUT I found a place that the FBI supposedly uses to pull data from devices, and they were able to recover my once-in-a-lifetime photos and videos of New York. It was EXPENSIVE. So I sent my computer to them, and it was EXPENSIVE, but they got my data. And I felt based on the amount of time I’d put in, and the amount of work I may not be able to remember or re-duplicate, it was worth it to me.<\/div>\n
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But meanwhile it was a week or two to get the data, then they sent the computer to the computer company, then a week or two to repair the computer, plus shipping, and next thing I knew, I was without my laptop for a month.<\/div>\n
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I had an old laptop that tends to freeze up and have to be re-booted if it’s working on too many things at once, in particular if I’m online. So I pulled that out, and it was working ok for about two weeks, and then one day as I plugged in the cable it just wouldn’t re-charge, and that was that.\u00a0 I have a desktop, but that’s just not the same as having the laptop on the table and listening to a dvd commentary while I’m drawing, or falling asleep with a movie on my lap to try and catch up on a little sleep before going off to my day job.\u00a0 I started putting old dvd’s onto the family room tv while I worked. I didn’t create any new work – I inked pages I had happened to have penciled, I did a few chores around that house that were WAY overdue, and I managed to keep busy for that month, without a laptop.<\/div>\n
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And now, as of yesterday, I have my laptop functional again, and I’m back at full capacity, working furiously on my comics for YOU!<\/div>\n
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You guys know by now how to find all the amazing video interviews for the Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist<\/a> documentary: HERE<\/a> for a list of EVERYTHING, or HERE<\/a> for the most recently posted videos – many of them free, and some of them only for YOU kind $7 Patrons.\u00a0 I can’t believe next month we’ll be posting our 90th video!<\/div>\n
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I’ve also posted a fun treat: $1 Patrons can see my black-and-white version of the story that was published in J.H. William’s Where We Live Anthology<\/a>, inked by Bill Sienkiewicz.<\/div>\n
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And YOU lucky $4 Patrons have access to a tediously thorough creator’s commentary about that story Where We Live Anthology \u2013 the pencils and edits<\/a>.\u00a0 It contains over a dozen pages of my original script notes, my page layouts which consisted of photos I took of myself in my own house, my original pencils, pages I inked myself and why I inked them. I hope you’ll find it super-interesting to see my creative process.\u00a0 Here’s a TINY sample:<\/div>\n
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Thanks as always for YOUR kind, kind support, it is so appreciated, knowing YOU’RE out there, wanting to help me succeed with my art.<\/div>\n
Sincerely,
\nChris<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whew, what a month, fans! I was using my three-month old laptop, and it started acting SUPER sluggish. I finally decided, I’d better save and close everything that’s open, and as I got through about three quarters of it all (I had a lot of art open for my upcoming Brush with Peril project), it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t