Hi, I haven't been here for quite a while, and I do like the new menu for the drawing sessions. One drawback, though, when you end your sessions, there is just no button integrated as of yet, that takes you back to the forums and the "your studio" pages. There is a button labeled "home", but instead it takes you to yet another newly designed "home page", just one, that has no fuctions for profile, practice log, etc... I am not sure, what the idea of having yet another "home page" design was all about or what problem it is supposed to amend, but it seems to have introduced additional confusion to the design team, so they missed out on making sure basic functionalities keep working.
Also, making sure your practices do appear correctly in the practice logs takes quite a bit of shenannigans and hectic flipping of pages....
Sorry about that, Aunt Herbert! I'm working on the next update that seeks to fix a lot of this, but I just didn't have time to get it all out in the first release and I didn't want to make people wait any more months for the release of the better drawing tools.
Just a heads up there are two new buttons on the bottom bar in the tools now :) One for going to your studio page, one for going to the forums.
I think there is another problem with the new features, though. If you restart a session, you will be offered a quick start option, that says it will repeat all previous choices. Instead it just produces a single picture without any timing.... EDIT: Couldn't reproduce it on purpose, but it happened more than once before. I'll let you know, if I manage to reproduce.
Oooh the intermittent bugs are always the hardest to track down. That it happens when doing a quick start helps to narrow the search though, thank you! Please do let me know if you find any pattern.
Ah, nailed it down. If you do a class session, commentaries on, then restart a session via quickstart choosing class session again, and then close the first window by using the x in the upper right corner instead of the continue button, the first image will show up without a timer and just be a still frame. Which can be confusing, as you are focused on starting with a 30 sec drawing, and instead have all the time in the world.
Disastrously, it worked perfectly for me under those circumstances twice in a row. Remind me what browser you use?
Google Chrome... I'll check if it still works the way it did yesterday....
Yepp, it's still there, but I initially overspecified the problem. It happens simply if you have a class section with practice tips enabled, and close the practice tip with the x on the upper right corner instead of the continue button in the lower right corner. The image does not reload and instead the timer function disappears.
Nothing to do with the quick start function at all, just class function with practice tips enabled, and it happens the first time the practice tip shows up as well as on subsequent times.
AHA! Now this I can work on, thank you!
Reload, this should be fixed now.
Kim
5 days ago.
Aunt Herbert
edited this post on July 20, 2025 6:23am.
