VectorVonDoom

Hi, Me neither, but it's getting cold and dark so back to doodling! Thanks

Keep telling yourself that and it might make it true 😅 Yes, there's more than one way to implement a subscription and don't pay = you can't access your work is just one way. Sketch is an annual subscription but don't pay and you just don't get updates. it doesn't lock you out. Another example is an in between one. MS Office 365 subscription, stop paying and you can view and print work but can't edit it, so it changes to read only mode. So the company chooses how much to cripple the software, if at all, if you don't pay but they're still classed as subscriptions as you pay on a regular basis vs a perpetual license. They're just not always at Adobe's level of awfulness.

They never say lifetime, as in every major version going forward until the end of time. So unless they’ve told you personally something different then perhaps improve your reading and comprehension skills. All because you’re on the internet doesn’t mean that putting out unsubstantiated accusations of fraud will always end well.

No it doesn’t mean that at all. It can stop if they choose but that is a choice not the definition.

Subscription doesn’t mean that. The horrible Adobe way does but for example Sketch allows you to carry on using it you just don’t get updates, which is fair enough.

Thanks. Who'd have thought anyone would be that desperate lol

Well 40% isn't enough so closer to free is obviously going to be what you are after. I give up, I was under the mistaken impression that "up to" wasn't a complicated word. Voucher codes, nope. Have read of the Apple developer docs for example and you'll see why.

Unfortunately that’s the nature of software, always has been and always will be. Companies don’t spend the resources on things people can no longer buy. Like I said people have had up to 5+ years of free upgrades, that never goes on forever as it’s not commercially viable.

Well places like the Apple store doesn’t allow for upgrade pricing and you can’t have different prices depending where you buy it. So count that 40% off as your upgrade discount, it’s just they have to do it for everyone. Sounds as though free is what you’re really after though not a discount at all. Which is why I said up to 5+ years.

I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Have you products all stopped working? No. Are you being forced to upgrade? No. Have you had up to 5+ years of v1 upgrades for free? Yes. But that’s not enough?

I’ve been using it for a while and for what I’ve done it doesn’t get gummed up or crash, but then I’m not using all its features (although others have). So I’ve not been concerned about starting new projects in v2 rather than sticking to v1 to be safe and personally don’t see a need to load up the old version any more.

Unless they added absolutely everything they could possibly add then some people are bound to complain, that’s life and you can’t win with everyone.

It’s probably not going to happen for a long time, unless they decide to make it a priority. Was never likely for v2 in my opinion.

I could spend some more time on it but looks ok.

Added a bit more texture to the filler cap and did the windscreen.

The wing mirror...

The Alfa P3 was a single-seater Grand Prix race car designed by Vittorio Jano. It was the first genuine single-seat Grand Prix race car. I'm only doing a section of the car. I started a while back but didn't do much. As it's not the whole thing I was going for extra detail. I thought I'd try and post some bits full size as I complete them for a change as the finished images are always shrunk so much. For some reason I'm working at 34400x22934, don't ask me why because I'm not sure. So apart from it being jpg and some compression to keep the file sizes reasonable they'll look as I've done them. The first detail is the front filler cap on the bonnet (hood).

Here's a short list of websites that may give you some inspiration for your next project. For this I've no interest in product branding, UI/UX or website design sites so haven't included any that are specific to those subjects. These are just ones that I've visited and found interesting rather than thinking meh (which is quite a few!). The first two are probably obvious ones to most people. I personally ignore the likes/upvotes as they often don't reflect the quality of work. Neither site works well unless you are signed in. Behance Dribbble Some sites that are perhaps less well know and in no particular order: Design Inspiration AIGA Eye On Design abdz.do InspirationGrid Directory Of Illustration Central Illustration You also have Instagram but the images are so tiny whether you find it that useful for inspiration purposes is up to you. I don't use it at all but that's me. Not a web site but there used to be a magazine in the UK called Computer Arts. I would buy it occasionally but to be honest rarely found content that was particularly interesting. But if you look around you can find issues in PDF format. For example there are a few on here: Computer Arts If you find an artist you really like then look them up as they more often than not have their own site.

I've not done anything with AD in what seems like ages so did this today. It's a fish...

That’s fine.

Glad you liked it but I didn’t like it so I tidied it up a bit, basically the same though.

Thanks. It was a bit of a rush, I did make the background less awful a time back but didn’t update the post.

I usually start of with a search engine, I use startpage.com, and go for the highest resolution I can find. Perhaps start with 40mp and go down if I can’t find anything, but not too low res. There may be paid for sites with higher res photos but I’ve not noticed any. I don’t do anything modern but if you do then it’s likely to be easier finding hi-res photos than if it’s vintage. However sometimes high res have just been enlarged so when you look carefully it’s quite blocky and noisy, which you don’t really want if you can help it. Finding a decent reference, whilst not always easy, is easy compared to actually doing it but that’s what practice is for and obviously depends on the style you want to go for. Always look at a reference and try and spot things that are going to be problematic, presuming you’re going for photorealism. Sometimes when you think about it you realise it’s just going to be too much work (although sometimes it ends up being anyway!) Yes, I only do vector although some do mix vector and raster but to me you either do one or the other. That is the advantage of vector, you can increase the size without it going blocky/ blurry but the more detail you put in the better it will look if you increase it by a lot especially looking close up. I usually work at A1 which is likely larger than you’d print it anyway.

You might be better off showing an image too, not everyone wants to download files.