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Autumn Maple drawing on SA

I’ve been playing Starving Artists on Roblox for probably a year now but I would have long breaks from it or Roblox in general. Apparently a new feature was added where it puts a printer emoji above your drawing if it suspects it’s been scripted, but it’s clearly not been implemented well as I would see obvious scripted images not flagged but my genuine drawing was... Anyway, here’s some screenshots:

1. This is the photograph I used as a reference. It was for the October Autumn contest 2022 so I put a lot of effort into it!

2. I first drew the basic colours on Photoshop(this was especially useful when back then the colour picker in SA (starving artists) was really bad).

3. This is where it makes it worth pre-drawing something outside SA then redrawing it again ingame even though it makes it so time consuming; LAYERS. And as you can see in this screenshot, blending modes(overlay). I drew the bokeh effect to make it look like a photograph.

4. This is the earliest ingame screenshot I have of it because someone donated me in chat, I already started the leaf here. I simply, well, meticulously copied what I already drew but then blended the colours in using basic dithering(pixel art 101, it’s just a checkered pattern). I think this blending and the overlay layer circles/bokeh is what made the algorithm think this was scripted? You can see me draw similarly in this older drawing:

Pre-making your picture or parts of it on a drawing program of your choice still has its benefits even after updates to the colour picker slider. I already mentioned layers but one thing that is annoying in SA is when you use the eye dropper tool and try to adjust it, it just goes back to the previous colour. If you want a slightly lighter colour that you used for the background ages ago it’s awkward. Either way, it’s nice that the colour picker was improved and I’m looking forward to future QOL updates.

5. The leaf was the easier part of the drawing but getting the shape right was still hard. Unfortunately, the details get lost when put up on sale because of all the shaders the game uses, red colours seem to suffer the most but at least I now know. At least you can see its full glory in your inventory(plz buy :D).

6. I think I just used the darken brush to create a vignette + minor shading adjustments and that’s it!

Hope you somewhat enjoyed reading this even though the tone was sort negative, it was a bit of a rant after all after being marked by the printer emoji. Seeing the process can be interesting though, I will start a Youtube channel and show some speedpaints too.

- MollyisPongy

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