🍭Candy Bara🍭

Oh, I -absolutely- bought the t-shirt version of this when I was away in Boston, haha

SO, YES ACTUALLY GET IT

That means buckets to me, dude! 💜

Gosh this is such a journey for the eyes. I love this 💜💜💜

Thank you! I wrote a short books-worth of poems about this fella but I’m holding onto it for now. 💕

I hope you find someone who understands coyote paws 💜

I’ll just have to draw how the date went, won’t I? 💕

AW that’s so cute!!

He tried that but the screen was too bright so he tried to turn it down but took 12 screen shots and switched on airplane mode and gave up after 15 minutes of whining and strife

He doesn’t want to have thumbs, he just wants to be understood 🐺💕

That makes it all worth it to me

He would use text to speech but he just barks

This is such a completely precious idea oh my god

Thank you! I’m gonna make time to draw more of this feller

That’s very thoughtful because he’s always using his teeth for everything

Please read the alt text for deeper context 🐾💜🐾

Thumbs, a 3-panel comic: 1. A tiger sits up alone on his bed, looking at his phone. 2. “It was real nice seeing you again tonight. I haven’t stopped smiling.” The Tiger wrote. He then receives three responses that seem like gibberish. Someone struggling to convey their thought. Auto-correct clearly failing them. But the tiger can understand the message. “I like you, too.” 3. A wolf sits alone on his bed, looking at his phone. Struggling to hold the device in his two dog-paw hands. Without thumbs, he can only nap his screen to text as best as he can. For the first time, he feels understood. —— There once was a wolf, believe it or not,
With floppy grey ears and a snout like a blot.
But what made him so strange, if you count all his claws,
Instead of two hands, he was born with two paws

🐾Thumbs🐾

Honestly that’s the hardest part

Let me know if you need any help!

Yeahhh there’s a lot of friction starting out. I had to take a day or two away from it when it got real bad. But I needed to jump back in.

It’s better going into it with a few friends who are motivated in learning it, too. Problem solving together made the victories so much sweeter.

Yo I really appreciate the insight. I’ll give it a shot this weekend after I get OBS and some audio rerouting figured out!

Niiice! I might try out Wine to get Clip to work natively on my system here soon.

Making the switch is the best decision I’ve made. Once I found my footing and figured out KDE custom themes and skins, it’s like booting into my own mind palace.

YEH! Well so far I haven’t needed Wine for anything quite yet. A buddy of mine uses it to get FL Studio working, and it works great for him! I have 0 experience with Wine right now.

Yeh Flash a distro on a USB and test it out. Mint is approachable. Try a few and see what fits you!

Basically I would run commands or install programs that would completely rip apart my audio setup. It’s very unique from Windows. Some things can be a little fragile and break without you knowing why. Sometimes you’re better off reinstalling after you troubleshoot for 3-4 hours. 8)

Thank you!! It’s rare to hear anyone say that, haha. It’s mostly “Ew. Why aren’t you using Arch/Mint/Fedora? Are you insane?”

You just gotta ignore the chuckies and use a distro that works for you, not them ;3

Linux is an operating system separate from Windows and Apple OS. I’m wanting to move away from using Microsoft Windows forever if I can.

You can look up YouTube videos about Linux and get a better idea of what it is. But it’s free and open source!

Using Clip on my iPad mainly! And Blender for 3D and 2D animation and modeling.

Krita is free and open source! It’s mighty powerful and looks great, though I haven’t spent a lot of time in it yet. I’ll give it a spin sometime.

So as far as I know, Clip doesn’t work in Linux. You might be able to use something like Wine to emulate it?

My setup is a little unique where I primarily draw on my iPad using Clip Studio.

There are a lot of really good drawing programs for free on Linux! Krita being one of them.

Aaaabsolutely! All of those qualities will be tested to their limit. But I don’t regret it at all. I still have a lot to learn, but I couldn’t be happier with where I’m at.

Of course! A lot of it is going to be trial and error, lots of YouTube tutorials, passive aggressive booger beards telling you to give up in forums, and a few re-installs of your distro, haha.

But stick with it. You gotta learn from the mistakes. I believe in you! 💜

For anyone wondering, I’m using Ubuntu Studio 24. It’s ideal for me because it’s very approachable and it’s set up for folks who do audio work as well as 3D modeling, sculpting, and animation. I really, really like it.

It’s been an ENORMOUS test of patience and pain tolerance but it was so worth it. I -love- my custom setup and got to know a ton of cool open source programs. Things that are better than software I paid money for. AND THEY’RE FREE!

Anyway, back to drawing these very huge dudes.