While v0.17 has been out in the wild I've been doing some art practice! I was trying out two new things with this bit of art: A new shading technique, and Clip Studio's time lapse feature.
The new shading technique had me doing the entire image in greyscale (actually slightly coloured so it could be hue-shifted easily). In theory this helps me keep the shading consistent between each piece of the image, regardless of how light or dark the material will be in the end. I ended up doing a second lighting/shadow pass at the very end, but I think the experiment was generally successful!
I also tried out Clip Studio's time lapse feature. I was expecting some sort of adding complexity for it, but it just sort of... worked perfectly? It was so easy I feel silly not trying it out earlier! I'll likely be using this a lot more in the future, it's a fantastic bonus post for Patreon or Twitter or something any time I spend time drawing. The one place I won't be using it are the character models for
A Very Full House - the timelapse makes the file significantly bigger and those files are already pretty hefty by themselves.
That's all for today - I want to be a little more diligent about my art routine, so I'll be back in two days with
something to share!
Hey
MetaMira ,
Like you said, 0.17 was really wild & hot
.
I loved the new work outfit and the events leading to it. I was waiting for this for a quite a while & I’m really happy with the update. I really wanted to comment on the day you posted the game here but was busy with work and only got to play the game yesterday
but I really enjoyed the game.
Coming back to the above post, as a staunch follower & lover of this game, I’m really happy to see you improving the art work.
This is really really good. I don’t know much about art or shading or stuff but this does look better than your previous pics.
I hope you use it in the game sometime later.
Also, I have a suggestion. You see your character art in the game is really good but the backgrounds are kinda blurry.
For example the bedroom, living room, lockers in school etc.
Like how should I say
?
Like they are not sharp. It’s like they are coloured from a crayon and there is a lack of definition.
I know it would probably take a long time to re work but maybe you can use AI like mid journey to redo the background images. I think there is an option to upload existing images ans get a better version of the images in same/different format. I’m not sure but you can explore this, maybe it will help.
Also, in the main thread someone created a walkthrough mod which adds the walkthrough app in the phone with the faces of all main characters. It is easy to track events & is really convenient. It made the game play lot easier.
I think you should just add it in the game officially yourself. I think people will really like it.
Anyway just wanted to help & its upto you,
Love you work like always and looking forward for the next updates
God Speed..!!!