got back into acnh and made a butterfly garden ✨🦋

I’ve been in SUCH a state this last month and it’s been really bad, squad ❤️❤️ but thankfully animal crossing exists even if nintendo hates us and doesn’t want to update it anymore

updated my island flag! this was way harder than it looks. i did upload that first photograph onto acpatterns but it defintely needed tweaking and i also had already planned to edit out those even blurrier flowers in the background, so i ended up editing a lot and changing the color palette a little bit too. i used the other photograph as a reference as well. believe it or not the stem was the hardest part, because there wasnt a lot of room to add a stem that looked appealing by the way it was shaped and then there wasnt a lot of room to shade the stem cuz its thin obviously and working with pixels on acnh can be a little limiting in that you have to use certain shades and certain patterns in order to create smooth shading that doesnt look pixilated. i’m proud of myself for my first real try at custom designing. (i wont count the designs i made as a child or the simple quick stuff ive thrown together as an adult, although any practice is better than none when it comes to custom designs on animal crossing) 

also, as ive spoken about several times on this blog, ive recently started allowing myself to draw again after i stopped drawing for like ten years (other than a couple other attempts) and it’s such a relief to be able to get into a flow with drawing for the first time since i was a teenager. i enjoyed the process, and i also am happy with the outcome so that’s a nice bonus.

oh also apparently to save a QR code from acpatterns you dont get to name it? or at least i cant find a way to other than to submit my design or whatever so thats why the image says by unknown from unknown lol

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welcome to pabu 💌

its been a while so i thought the best way to fully get back into acnh was to start fresh– new island, new name (rip tartarus 2020-2023).

extra excited for this one as i’m also going to challenge myself to no terraforming this time !! not too sure of my theme yet, perhaps i’ll do yet another forestcore or a naturalcore island, we shall see 🩷.

before & after of shep & bones’ houses🍂

youtube channel!

WAIT IF YOU’RE DOING IMAGINES can it also be for your fics bc I really want to know love hard svt’s acnh island themes pls ✨✨✨💝

wait 😳 i’m actually totally down to do reqs for my fics.

ෆ this is what I imagine for each love hard svt member’s acnh island:

seungcheol: casual player. doesn’t use custom designs and uses the provided paths. definitely has a villager neighborhood and is trying to complete the robot hero. doesn’t know time traveling is an option.

jeonghan: stalk market enthusiast. he probably has that island where people have to pay him in order to go to his island to catalog items (either irl or through nookazon). sets a 5 min limit for visitors (10 if they're nice).

joshua: nightcore but his island is named and modeled after his favorite nightclub. uses a ton of floor lights. island looks like a giant rave or festival. definitely has a water booth section 🥴

jun: kidcore 🥺 loves the pastels and all of his villagers are cat villagers. lolly is his best friend. gifts all of the villagers cat-related items. definitely says sorry if he bumps into a villager.

soonyoung: junglecore. do I even need to explain what kind of villager he collects? anyway his island is lush with a ton of greenery but there’s this random gym area for his jock villagers. definitely uses tiger flooring.

wonwoo: casual player like seungcheol. but the thing is he doesn’t really decorate at all. he’s goal-oriented and makes it his goal to complete the museum and all of the nook milage tasks. loves fishing.

jihoon: his parents are interior decorators so you KNOW his island is an elegantcore island. it’s modeled after europe and he creates his own custom designs. there are island tour videos of his island online.

mingyu: japanese-inspired island. i just know he was fighting for his life trying to find shino. has a beautiful rock garden that took forever to create. island is put together just like him.

minghao: horrorcore but it’s so aesthetically pleasing. so more like a witchcore. uses a ton of wells and tombstones. will time travel to meteor showers. rodney anti.

seokmin: naturalcore. has his own island lore. lives for the drama so he follows his villagers around and knows which villagers are beefing and which are dating. definitely has beef with some villagers ngl.

seungkwan: bought the game when it first came out, and gave it to jun after a month. couldn’t care less about it.

hansol: towncore. flattened his cottagecore island and is currently building a suburban towncore island with diagonal paving. travels back and forth between paradise planning and his island. doesn’t like acnh spoliers so his jaw DROPPED after he completed 30 vacation homes.

chan: piratecore/beachcore. uses a ton of rusty jail bars and barrels. included a section just for redd at his secret beach. absolutely furious he can’t catch a giraffe stag. hates catching beetles in general.

museum ruins 🌱

my favorite spots on novastarr 💫✨