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There's been like 4-5 times where I'm working on art piece and my computer crashes with BSOD and I lose my work.

What happens to you after you've lost a piece of art you've been working so hard on? Do you go back to it/an old WIP and start again or do you scrap it all together?

Usually for me, (if someone has commissioned me the piece), I won't go back and draw it all again. I just hate doing it because it won't come out looking good like the first time and I just have the stigma of not starting from SQ 1 all over again.

I'm sure this has happened to other people. O:

Share your unfortunate experiences and WIPs of pieces you didn't feel like returing to. O:

Omg, my comp is so bad now, maybe it has viruses like yours. I get random BSOD all the time, then I wanna cry. D;

And you think so? I don't think I've ever gone back to a piece I've lost but if you improve 2nd time round, maybe it's good to try it. XD <33

I never thought of it that way.

That happened to me several times, mainly because I was using a bootleg version of oC4... xD;; I usually just go back to the old WIP and hope it turns out better. Sometimes, though, the file gets so corrupt that I can't open it... and then I just give up. OTL

Aw, man, Chise, and it's turning out so well. x_x;


My operating system is OSX, so I don't get the BSOD, but sometimes I do forget to save and then an error occurs with Corel. Depending on how far into the pic I was, I just walk away for a little while to cool down, then come back to try to assess the damage. XD

i save alot so things like that usually don't happen to me. not with art atleast.

have had some bad experiences with word though. deleted the whole thing from my memory stick stressed more than 5 hours of work about israel. guh, i was about to cry, and it was supposed to be finished for school the next day. then i lost all my notes about sex pistols for my english. but that was allright cuz somehow i had memorized the whole sex pistols page on wikipedia.

what bugs me when i'm drawing is that i draw on the wrong layer all the time, that is annoying, especially when i've saved it.

Ultimately I get very upset, especially when it's a piece where I spend more than 4-5 hours plus.

In the end... I can't do much about it, so I might as well make the remake more fun by boozing on a bottle of wine while going at it again. It loosens me up enough to not be so a**l over the hard parts.

Happens very often for me, unfortunately.
I have a really s**t, old computer. It crashes a lot, and despite me going through the process of learning rootkit, malware, and virus removal/detection/whatever, I still can't avoid it being unharmed. So, once it crashes, it crashes hard.
We usually have to reformat once every other month and I lose everything.
So, I've learned to deal with constant stress.

Most recently was a commision from back in December. When I do commisions, I usually go through 5 or so pictures before I get one I like. I had finally come up with a good concept sketch and was just starting the colouring phase when I lost everything on my computer. This was like, 4 months after the start, so now I'm panicing [regardless of how awesome said commisioner is being] and have only just managed to get a good sketch going again D:

This happened to me is the past~ When I using lame computer. When I getting nearly finish, then the file crashed strangely...

Then I don't want to try again & give up. That time I'm insanely mad... Using few days time to do it then suddenly lost it...