Throught my entire time doing digital art (or any art in a serious manner) I've always gotten comments about how some things I draw seems so dark, almost black and too dark to be made out, while I've always been dissatisfied with how light even the darkest parts look and have never been able to undserstand why some people can't make it out.

Then, earlier today I found out. I always draw on my laptop (as it's the only computer I have with GIMP on it, and the school computers don't have photoshop) so it's the only screen I've used to look at my work. Then I was working on my website in my ICT class on a school computer, and I looked at one of my pieces of art, and it was really dark in places I had thought were too light eariler. I'd better mention that the school computers have really new LCD screens which are much better than my laptop's screen. So the reason that my work has seemed dark when other people look at it is because my laptops screen is old and crappy. I tried to change my contrast settings to fix this, but it doesn't get any better, so I'm stuck with an old laptop with rubbish contrast settings untill I get a new one (my dad will pay for a new one when this one breaks or I reach the 6th form, which wil be in the summer).