@thecanine@twtxt.net Hey! 👋 Welcome back! 😅 Haven’t seen you in a while, how have you been? 🤔
I am very happy with Yarn.social
@prologic@twtxt.net Busy, but not in a bad way. Mostly just work, at a job I no longer have, enjoying the holidays, and some studying for an exam I had today, that I ended up failing.
A part of my inactivity here can also be blamed on Google, as their last update to Android (12) broke the drawing app I’m using to draw all the pixelart I post here. Currently the only working solution involves having to run a virtual machine with an older version of Android on my phone.
It’s not as impractical of a solution as it sounds, but I’d still prefer if Google could stop breaking compatibility or the developer fixed the app. At least it works now and my laziness/artblock are once again the only things to blame.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Why don’t you try PixelCraft?
@prologic@twtxt.net It’s not bad, but it has some things I don’t like. Changing colors is a bit tedious and un-doing is done pixel by pixel, rather than based on strokes (if you place more at a time).
It also doesn’t look like placing transparent pixels is a thing. That usually isn’t too much of a problem while drawing, but it makes the app unusable for other edits, that I usually also use these kind of apps for.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Intereating… Maybe you could file some issues against the project? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net My lack of free time aside, these aren’t exactly issues, but rather differences in opinions and adding setting to allow users the choice between these preferences is probably beyond the scope of their project.
…to explain myself better, here is the color selection tab in Pixel Station - my favorite app for pixelart:
The top line shows the 8 most recently used colors, so you can return to them easily. The basic colors are always on the left, but on the right you get 6 variants of any color you’re just using. Under it are the tools, needed to get colors from the image you’re working on and tweak the values of the currently used color.
So as you can see, most other apps would have to implement quite a bit of changes, to make their apps the main art app of people who have a workflow similar to mine. And this is still far from a complete list of my “requirements”.
This isn’t a criticism of this app. I like it and hope if helps more people find joy in the creation of pixelart. I might even use it myself for some pixelated doodles when I’m online. I’m just saying it probably won’t replace my main art app any time soon.
@thecanine@twtxt.net I see 🤔