Hi, so this is probably a bit weird, but you draw SO MUCH! I got curious about how you organize your files, like do you name them by date or by subject? do you have different pastes for each fandom? I really love your art, and you are an inspiration to me!
Hi ! hope you don’t mind me answering this publicly, file organization is somewhat of a point of pride for me :’)
I’m typically drawing a fanart/specific characters when I work so I don’t sort art by date folder since it's not very useful for me to find things later and dating is already embedded in the file data! I label the files as “FANDOM small description.clip” like so ⇩ ⇩ ⇩ so when I sort by alphabetical it’s all in fandom groups.
if the work is SUPER old like 6+ years i’ll put it in a second folder to keep it out the way but i didn't find there was much usefulness in diving further.
my art gets slotted mostly in to three folders, Fan art, OCs and Commissions, using the same naming system of “THING small description” so i can always sort by name and find the relevant file.
I also normally have a whole BUNCH of sketches on one 4k x 4k canvas to save on a million files per fandom, once i’ve filled one up i move on to a new one. I only have one artwork per file when it’s a full painting and or requires a million layers (Or is an flat export of a file)
and then when i post most of the sketches i just save a cropped screenshot using a messaging desktop app i have and save that to my desktop which 1 stops me bloating my files (i regularly delete or sort my desktop) and 2 stops me from posting full res files when i don’t need to
hope that helps!!
