My PC went dead around Nov. 25th last year, guess who just gets a new PC (finally) in July? With 8GB RAM, I hope it can handle working with Photoshop 2020 (though I’ll still sick with openCanvas as my main drawing program - PS is for editing and some graphic).

          As for the monitor, I don’t recall if I’ve ranted on TH before just how terrible it was. Backstory is it’s a HP monitor that came as a set with my old pc, both bought in 2009 but it took a year later until I finally decided to switch from the non-LCD bulky monitor to that one. Around two or three years ago, the screen surface started developing tiny white specks over it. At first it was just the top left corner then gradually spread all over, covering 100% of the screen. Since then, trying to paint had been hell for me because it was next to impossible to get a decent blend (monitor always deceived me it was smooth enough but when I view the WIP from mobile screen (always need to paste the WIP screen in discord to view from mobile), NOPE the blend was super messy still).

          Until now, I switched to do cel-shading simply because it’s much less frustrating to do than attempting to paint. Still, the ‘white noise’, as I called it, makes life difficult. Here’s a comparison - the left is what I see on the screen, with millions of ‘noises’ because the surface material degenerating, while on the right is the actual save file (and screencap from print screen also in this quality). Even trying to work on Yevsey’s hair was a torment, despite his base hair color is dark auburn, not even black.

          Anyway, with the new PC, I got to swap the doomed monitor with another one (old Samsung monitor left over since my stepdad passed away years ago). I'm still wrestling with the setting though since the colors displayed on this Samsung monitor still don't match what I see on my phone. It's better to at last get rid of the white specks no less...

          I've not painted anything since the 2nd week of May. Hopefully my skill hasn't become too rusty...