Images

[tealin]

You may remember from some months ago that Photobucket, where I've hosted the pictures I've shared for the last 15 years or so, is taking a leaf from Martin Shkreli and charging exorbitantly for what used to be reasonable and/or free. My account reverts to 'free' (i.e. 'useless' under the new scheme) on Dec. 6th, at which point most of the images on my site, and in back issues of this blog, will cease to be visible – I'll still have them, they just won't embed externally anymore.

I've opened an Imgur account, and am planning to download all my Photobucket stuff and close those accounts then upload everything again (there doesn't seem to be an automatic way of doing that), but I won't be able to transfer much by the 6th and definitely won't have time to update img tags, so if you're dying to have a wander down memory lane, do it quick or there won't be any pictures.

Most pictures since 2013 are hosted on Tumblr, though, so recent history you don't have to worry about.

Which reminds me, I haven't done an image crosspost in aaaaaaaages ...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How much is Photobucket charging for their nonsense? I wish there was a decent midpoint between "free thing that is going to stop being free and/or working" and "overly expensive thing that's barely different than free thing". If I recall, Flickr did something similar a while back, even though they already included a paid model, where they raised the price dramatically and treated the previous paid version like their free service.

[tealin]

Gosh I don't even remember, I just went NOPE and shut down ... I had a paid account because I'd topped out my bandwidth allowance once or twice, and that was $20/year, but the new scheme is literally at least ten times that for the privilege of embedding your images on third-party sites, which had been part of the free package before.

[(Anonymous)]

Ewwwwww. Acting like embeds are a big deal is so early 2000s...

[(Anonymous)]

I got a chance to dig through your photobucket and I'm in love. I absolutely adore your Discworld sketches! I can't believe how well you drew the Monstrous Regiment! I'd never really tried to imagine the characters visually before but now I'm gonna have to reread the book. You also drew some of my other favourites- Conina, Adora Belle Dearheart and Susan Sto Helit. Even your Vimes agrees with me, and I generally consider him (and Nobby and the Patrician) unportrayable. I hope these images live on somewhere! I wish I could see the David Krumholtz inspired Teppic but the link was dead. >.

[tealin]

Oh, thank you! This means so much to me, especially the Monstrous Regiment stuff, and the supposedly 'undrawable' characters. I agree Vimes is hard to pin down – I never feel like I've got him, quite – but I'm chuffed you think him acceptable! As for Krumholtz-Teppic, well, if you just imagine David Krumholtz in assassins' black, you've pretty much got it.

I have all this stored on some hard drive or other, and I still have the Photobucket albums, they're just much less useful than they once were. At some point I'll get it all transferred to Imgur, I just don't know when ...

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking of unportrayable Patricians, I was so happy to see Charles Dance as The Patrician in Going Postal. I had previously envisioned Charles Dance-esque caricatures of the various nobles occupying Ankh-Morpork but this is a much nicer fit.

I'd love to see your take on some of the other difficult to portray characters, such as the Agony Aunts, Cheery Littlebottom, The Silver Horde or even Gaspode/Foul Ole Ron (how does one draw a smell that corrodes steel?)

For some reason the captcha wants me to type 'Charles'. I think it's reading my replies.