The Friday Art Show

Glad you guys are having fun...do any of you guys like my art?
...maybe I should just draw aliens, ...lol

 

Going through the long, slow process of trying to transfer images from an ancient Samsung tablet to my current laptop...Nothing is transferring quickly. Most of my artwork images are gone forever due to a computer crash ages ago. There are hundreds of custom airbrushed t-shirts and signs that I painted I have no images of any more.
Found this random quicky marker sketch I did years ago for a Funny car team looking to move up from Sportsman/Alcohol to the Nitro/Fuel Professional world.
Driver/Owner made a sponsorship pitch to Tapout clothing

 

I’m at 11 I thought that of the barrel also, well I’ve got my shoes off and still counting. Lol
Dan

 

That sucks if you still have the old hard drive there are some gurus out there that can perform magic.
Dan
@rusty1 fun’s what’s it’s about.
Dan

 

Our fellow HAMBER @jnaki is pretty savvy about all things that pertain to what you are referring to!

 

Thanks for thinking about what I know or learned along the way… I have different ways to transfer photos, writings and what ever else from one device to another. Some may be good for you and others. You will have to experiment with your devices. Practice, practice. But, here is the key… accidently erased photos and writings can be saved using a wide variety of reversal programs.

Even if a hard drive is conked out, someone may have the skills to revive it and use a recovery program to find the missing document or photo. It is still on those spinning discs or electronic flash drives, so don’t give up. It used to be large spinning discs. Now, they are about 2 inches in size. But, flash drives or SSD drives are better, but expensive.


Hello,

I got an old Samsung tablet about three years ago. I was reading novels and mysteries and wanted a larger screen. But, I did not want to increase the size of the font on the tablet. Sometimes in a break between mysteries, I use the Google webpage for little news stories. As I am reading those stories, I wanted to take a screen shot of the page and save it for a later photo save or information for articles.

So, I got a cord that fit the tablet, "C" end and then a regular USB on the other end. Now, I can insert the "C" end in the tablet to the USB on the laptop end and make it go directly to the photos folder. Any screen shots are saved automatically in the photo folder of the tablet and then transferring then to the laptop is as easy as connecting the cord.

Jnaki

One other way to use a camera on the phone or tablet is to use it and it automatically saves to the onboard photo folder. Now, transfer those to the laptop the same way. Or, if you don't have access to the cord, then send it to your laptop Gmail address from the Gmail address webpage on the tablet. It is like sending yourself an email.

It will go over as a Jpeg, which is fine. Now, it is on your Gmail account on any device, phone, tablet, desktop computer and laptop if you have Gmail on those devices. It seems complicated, but it is simple. My wife has now learned that process and it is great. No need to carry around a flash drive or external hard drive.

One other way is to download it to a fast flash drive and take it anywhere. Name brands are usually faster and more reliable. YRMV

Note:
If you trust your friend's laptop or computer, then insert the flash drive and transfer those photos. The old flash drives used to hold dinky amounts of large MP photos/files. But, now there are larger flash drives up to 1 TB to hold everything... Yikes!

 

Every so often I read in a post about someone losing files due to a computer issue and I think about someone like @tawdler here losing artwork, and about all the amazing art that's been posted here.
I really hate to see stuff like that get lost. So I'm curious about the original hi-res full size digital art or photo files that you guys do. What's your preferred method for archiving 'em so they don't get lost forever? @jnaki seems to have a pretty fair knowledge of that (sorry, we just can't leave you alone!! ) Maybe we can all pick up some pointers.
Or maybe it's a subject for a separate O/T thread?
Again, thanks to all who post here. One of the coolest threads on the HAMB.

 

I have lost some stuff in the past but very little. Nothing as important as all these folks artwork. I save a lot of stuff on my computer.....photos, links to sights and personal documents/information! I have a problem, when I get a new computer (like right now) as how to move items over to the new one from the old one fairly quickly! It would take me days or weeks to move what I want to move over. I suppose one could buy an external hard drive and copy your C drive and then attach the hard drive to the new computer and move them onto that C drive? But, I don't know the actual protocol or logistics for that. Grandpa isn't an IT person!
Cool artwork this week everyone! Thank you!
OLE442

 

Good stuff as usual
Thank you,
Dan

 

I had photos saved on a work computer that crashed one day...had to replace it right away to keep my store going and never thought about trying to get images off the old hard drive. I had the photos saved on a thumb drive, but one day that failed as well...

 

Hello,

Thanks for the nice compliment. I have gone through plenty of old hard drives, all the way back to the floppy disk era and each person has different needs. I once had 2000 songs from our 20 something days and I lost all of the work categorizing them, making play lists and easy access, all on a hard drive. I inserted it into a computer and the computer had just received an email with some problems on it. A nasty bug and it wiped out and deleted all songs.

A friend had great early computer knowledge and said next time put them on an external hard drive. Then make a copy and put them on another different hard drive. So, those early drives were in the GB stage and got filled up fast. But, over time, I used those small hard drives attached to my main home computer and laptops.

As the digital age came upon us, the hard drives got bigger and could hold a lot of stuff, from journals, photos, artwork, pdf files and tons of memorabilia, if you copy them, photograph them. They have to be in digital form to save to the modern external hard drives. All of those “things” are saved on two 5 tb hard drives I have at home and one 4 tb hard drive in a bank safe deposit box with important papers scanned digitally into files.

Forget the cheap, unknown company versions of hard drives. The digital age has allowed the price to come down to these prices:



Of all of the external hard drives and flash drives I had/have, none failed. Stick to the name brands and the issue is pretty much solved. The no-name brands are questionable. Cost may have something to do with failure. I have several of these external 1 TB and 2 TB hard drives that I cleaned and gave to our granddaughter for her college projects. Now, she has something to store her digital files. Also, I gave her a ton of extra flash drives from 4gb all the way to 500 gb for her small projects to transport. My storage drawer is fairly empty and they all have gone to a good cause.

Jnaki

Now, I have these two external hard drives for daily use and storage. They are basically the same, but with different companies. I have had them since 2020 and 2024. No, they are not full, not even half full, so there are plenty of days of storage ahead. My laptop has a 2 TB hard drive and it too is not close to half full. Our theory as played into the many years of computer us. The hard drives work almost always and if they are over half full, they slow down, which is the case in transferring from one laptop to a home computer or vice versa.

So, clean out those duplicate photos or files that are no longer needed for tax purposes. 7 years and out they go…


These are now the new workhorse external hard drives that get constant uploads and cleaning. One can never have enough room to store projects, writings and photos. 5 tb is large enough and right now, they are only ¼ full. Plenty of room for uploading more “save to” items. Remember, costs are minimal as you are going to keep these for years.

Note:

Everyone has their own way to copy, paste and “save to.” The “save to” places vary and with those larger external hard drives, your home computer or laptop is always running at high performance tuned state. No lagging and waiting for something to move from one place to another.

You wouldn’t run your hot rods not tuned or running as best as they can… Computers are highly detailed machines that do the work of plenty of people and things, like old typewriters + file folders. Now, get those home computers and laptops cleaned out and make them fast again… storage is for things not used daily and bogs your activity down… YRMV

Note 2:

As far as transferring from one computer to another, no use in transferring all of the C: drive. You only need to save the files you created. The other stuff is for computer nerds and we have no clue as to how they are built or in use. We, too are old folks who just happen to start using computers with the first simple word processing, easy access to music and our saved files. But, as far as the computer talk and sentences that have go to: and other stuff on them… that is long gone for our tastes.

I recently bought a laptop for my wife. She liked the portability of it. But, since she has her “office” set up, she wanted a new home computer build and larger screen. So, now, her screen is 27 inches across. My laptop (received from my wife) is “only” 18 inches diagonally. The larger screen is better for her and she has a larger built in hard drive to start off. So, in two years, she will have 3/4ths of the drive still available… I copy and save her computer files in case of any house emergencies, on the external hard drives. Now, we can grab the “Go Bag” and leave in an flash.

We just like to speed things up on our laptops, devices and home computer units. It makes life easier to type in a journal entry than to type it on an ancient typewriter without any errors or have to use those round erasers with brushes on the ends… ha!

Note 3:

If we do have an emergency or pending emergency like we did several years ago with a fire creeping toward us, we were prepared to load up and leave. Yes, we would have lost our house and remaining files, but we have the important papers digitally saved and the “other stuff” physical stuff will have to try to stay alive until we can get back.
No, you don’t need one of these to store all of your digital stuff. Although, it would be nice to still have #3 with more power and comfort… Friday Art drawings… yes!

 

I enjoy your art work and look forward to it each week Rusty1. The aliens are a bonus.

 

re: lost artwork and pictures. I became digital in 1994. kept them all on CD, and I am sure there are some on my old computer that I still have. photo CD's deteriorate over time. one CD was blank, on others the color is washed out, the picture is pixelated and much smaller. my old camera was only 8 MP so they were small to begin with, roughly half the size of my new pictures on my new camera (24 MP) I also seem to have lost some CD's from the 90's
if you see crappy pictures in my photo posts that is why.

so, if you have photos on CD transfer them to external hard drives as JNAKI suggested... I have been working on that lately. I plan on loading them all on 2 different hard drives as cheap insurance. plus they are an my computer as well.

there's my 2 cents

 

Thanks a bunch! It makes sense to not cut corners on this stuff, you do get what you pay for.

Man, you were way ahead of the curve. In 1994 I was still using film!
Thanks for all the great hints guys. We gotta save that cool artwork.

 

My quick doodle of a 46 47 48 Ford

youtu.be/cuPYkJWzAXE

 

1963 Chevy Custom Bel Air Nomad

Hello,

One of the smoothest styles in the big Chevy style book was the 63 Chevy Bel Air line. It was similar to the 64 unit, but had a little angular aspect to it. The 64 was also smooth, but looked a little squarish. They could be mistaken for brothers as there were small details.

But, since 1958, the factory missed the mark in not making a 2 door Nomad Style Wagon with parallel lines for the smooth flowing design. Perhaps, it was the designer’s wife who told him to make a 4 door wagon to ease the flow of kids and stuff into the back seat area. It may have saved the long term design in most future station wagons.

No longer were they cool 2 door wagons with nice designs incorporated in every color combination.

Jnaki

Every year had its design differences, but only if they made a 2 door wagon, would it have made a significant change in each model year. A side chrome change, a swoopy pointer as if the wind created something special. But, for most, they were stodgy old family station wagons, not a sporty one for 20-30 somethings still in the open road driving mode. YRMV

Note:

There is no denying a 4 door station wagon does have its plus factors for convenience. For families and a “new kid on the block” duties is made easier by being closer, while attaching the safety seat in the back seat area. No more aching backs, lifting the apparatus in and out each time.

But, who could fault any cool looking 2 door Nomad Style Station Wagon for all folks… ?

 

My friends ride the bed lifts straight up too ! Reminds me of your drawing

 

That's right! This makes me miss my 63 Impala..



Some time ago I also have drawn a 63 for a client:

youtube/EFTxyMs2USA

 

One of the more interesting elements of the (FAS) , now that there is a bit of artistic freedom, to step outside of the former boundaries, I thought I would give a glimpse of some of the pen and ink line art I have done over the years, that couldn't be seen on the (FAS) before it got moved to the off topic forum.

Just to add a little more clarification to what you see here, I never was a free hand artist like so many others on this forum.

I had to teach my self photography, to at least get the image I wanted.

Then totally in a manner that is pure insanity, I would project the image on a 4' X 4' easel, and from my original slides I had shot, and draw the image at 33" X 27" on cheap lecture pad paper, with pencil, then go back and go over all of the pencil lines with pen and ink, to get the sharper detail.

The J-3 Piper cub is from a 30" X 40" original drawing from my original photography.

Happy Friday to all of you and enjoy the weekend where ever you are!
Thanks from Dennis.

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Reaching into the vault for some old airbrush artwork.

 

Cheers, Rob

 

Holy cow....I finally found it. So back in '92 we went to the KKOA show in Holland, MI and I got Bill Hines to autograph a drawing of mine. I would have been eight or so at the time. I think I might end up framing it.

 

Just noticed another signature on the bottom right corner. Does anyone recognize it?