Miyaoka showing off her surfboard (wip) (Patreon)

Really wanted to make some Miya art done since she's one of the top voted ocs~-It's been a while since ive gotten personal but it's been a rough day. I got my most recent page deleted off e6 and when I fixed it i got dinged for reuploading a duplicate, and got into a spat that lasted about 2 hours with one of the mods. short story is I got really defensive when they called my gif quality "shitty internet meme made from movie screencap and uploaded to tenor" and said I should be doing it another way that takes care of the artifacting, but made all the smooth gradients covered in awful banding. a HUGE no-no in the design world. and ALL of my ocs have gradients in them.Essentially with gifs its either artifacting or "banding"But of course it's not the artist who gets to decide. I told him I don't even want to deal with gifs anymore on his site and will just be uploading APNGS, which are very high-quality but almost no other website supports. So embeds will fail.Anyway nothing here on patreon will change, just am really sad I lost like 3-4 hours compressing gifs and arguing with mods. They low-key threatened to delete all my other dithered gif content, so —while I rant here, please don't call any more attention to it. I worry the power might go to their head and I'll get more pages taken down.-

I'll probably finish up this illustration and post it in a week or so. I was hoping to finish it today but the interaction today really took a lot of time and energy out of me. Helps to talk about it but best to ignore it and move on.