was talking about half life and making comparisons between games today

noise tone layer effect

been playing some sort of artist's badminton with my friend where one of us draws a picture of shane and then the other person replies with another drawing of shane

was demonstrating that you can just click and drag any 3d model into clip studio paint and my friend asked me to draw the girl from amazing island offering a blunt

DUDE YOUR PIXEL ART IS GORGEOUS HELLO??? SHANE LOOKS SO GOOD IN YOUR STYLE???? I love the way you did elliots goofy-ass drunk sprite too its so, so fuckign good all the way down. its so cool to see what you're able to accomplish and add with (what im guessing is) the same pixel dimensions and perimeters nstuff as the original sprites

thanks! working with the default 16x32 dimensions is certainly a challenge. i dont know if you could change the sprite size nowadays but when i started on this way back when, the content packer didnt even exist so youd have to re-pack everything back into XNBs lol...

the first sprite i did was actually harvey's, because i wanted to make sure the format/style i settled on could handle all the tricky edge cases and he had glasses AND a tie AND a mustache. if i could fit in those three things then everything else would fall into place.

my files for this have always been in disarray since i kept picking it up and putting it back down, and i can barely find the stuff i already worked on, but heres a screencap of some of the villagers i was working on back in 2018

still plenty of things i need to fix or figure out or redo (palette adjustments and then some).

i wanted to keep their relative heights but because i made everyone's heads bigger to fit a whole face in, it makes the shorter women look like they got goofy bobble heads... one of the things i gotta look into is to see if theres a way to make that look less weird or if i gotta just make them taller. maybe i'd have to make the guys taller to compensate? its a lot of work and it definitely made me understand why nobody's really done something of this scale lol

back on my bullshit again-- i started this stardew villager sprite overhaul project like 8 years ago (2016!) and picked it back up recently. the great news (sarcasm) is that the game updates since then have given me twice as much work to do as everyone has cute little beach and winter outfits now? im going to endeavor to at least get shane done (#biased) but i did dream of getting to everyone. we'll see how far i get this time.

heres an elliott doing a silly dance because i saw the frames in his sheet and thought it was cute

picked up stardew valley again, i havent played it since 2018(!) so theres a lot of new stuff to experience. heres some shanes i was fiddling with while taking a break from working on something else. id like to say thanks to my friend synth for valuable input during this process

and just because i happen to have a work-in-progress screencap on hand, heres what this looked like three hours previous lol:

am i going to attempt doing a study of this photo every three months lol

a hard expression to nail, though i keep trying cuz i like the photo. this time around i committed to doing the fullbody with no tracing, just eyeballing. dunno if it was a constructive use of my time… "keeping the knife sharp" i guess? 4h40m work time recorded in the file

more chibis of this rascal being insufferable over the years

misplaced my tablet pen 0.01 seconds into drawing this and had to use my mouse to draw it instead

chibi ring of honor era cm punk. i dont know who took this photo of him but let me know cuz its a good pic

ten years of blog

ok i made a sketchbook so i can feel more productive about not producing presentable work

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i thiiiiiiink ive settled on a visage for taggart's childhood friend/mentor but i just need to figure out how to draw it more than once. i have a whole 2.5 comics ive made in the last 1-2 years that i cant even post until i replace all my bald placeholder figures labeled "sal" with an actual human

they will spend the next 7+ years thinking the other one is the more oblivious friend. its tragic really

now a glimpse into the curated sketchbook experience. heres a bunch of waist-high drawings from last month of ppl standing around facing left (my favorite drawing subject)

a glimpse into the full sketchbook experience. was dicking around with tech pens again and tried to use up the remaining ink in this difficult-to-use thin pen without just flushing it down a sink. turns out adding water ended up making it work smoother, who wouldve thought 😒

scanning stuff from my sketchbook. heres this image, now in High Definition™

how im spending my jan 1st