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Omg how am I only finding out about this game now?? It sound soooo fun and even more promising!! (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

Snowkissed Romance by Lovely Inc. is now on Kickstarter!

"During your final winter break before college in December of 1994, step foot into the mythical town of Yukihari, based in the Northern mountains of Japan. Arrive at your Aunt’s charming ski resort where there’s plenty of new faces and fun to discover since your last visit!

What begins as a peaceful holiday with your best friend quickly transforms into an emotional journey when your older brother crashes with his three college roommates, who happen to be your childhood friends who moved away years ago.

You must navigate through old memories and new emotions while relationships unfold during this magical season of love and self-discovery. Every choice you make and action you take matters - Will you build cherished memories with an old flame, connect with new friends, or end the season alone?"

Customizable Main Character: Select your name, gender, zodiac sign, and even your blood type to shape your personality from the very beginning. It doesn’t stop there, you’ll be able to take a personality quiz and create a complete profile for yourself from your appearance to your favorite food and more!

Build Your Stats: Manage your stats throughout the game to influence your personality, compatibility, and more! Stats will include Intelligence, Athleticism, Sensitivity, Style, Elegance, Resilience, Charisma, Charm, and Stress.

Hear his Voice: With an in-game 90s style messenger charm, you will be able to hear special messages from your guy.

Cafe Mini-Game: Work at your Aunt’s Cocoa Shop to earn extra money for gifts and activities. Take orders and craft specialty drinks in time to complete your shift successfully. But don't work too hard, or the stress might make you sick and send you home for the season!

RNG (Random Number Generation): Snowkissed Romance employs RNG elements to make each and every play-through unique. From the weather to your encounters around the resort, each load can be completely unexpected!

You can try the demo or support the Kickstarter here!

[neeean]

WHATEVER YOU SAY BEAUTIFUL 😍😍

[neeean]

✦ Peachy ✦

been wanting to draw cute pin-up girls for a while now and seized my chance during christmas holidays : ) I actually remembered to document the individual steps from sketch to finished because I knew from the start I'd end up liking the base colors more than their rendered final version.

[neeean]

Hello :D

I have been following you for the last year or so (a few days after I got my Tumblr lmao) and I absolutely love your art!

I have been wanting to study your art style for a while but don't really know where to start,,,

Could you please show me a small portion of your art process, if it isn't too much trouble of course. Thank you and have a nice day!

hello. oh my god. this took forever to find.

im sorry it took 2 WHOLE FUCKING MONTHS for me to respond to this but i wanted to put it off until i felt happy with my art process again, so here it is

my fall 2024 rendering tutorial!

(this will be very very long)

FLATS AND WHATEVER YOU WANNA DO WITH LINES GIRL. then make sure to recolor the lineart to better match your base. trust me it helps, bold dark lines are Not your best friend when rendering. wait for that post-rendering

i start off with a doodle or a sketch, and then filling it in with flats and other details such as blush

FIGURE OUT YOUR LIGHT SOURCE. FIGURE IT OUT GIRL YOU CAN DO IT you can make it as simple as possible, make it as big as possible, dont even THINK about the details.........just make it really fucking big so you at least know where the shadows and the light goes THEN add smaller shading details LISTEN TO ME. LISTEN TO ME OKAY!!!!!!!!

my key point with this is for you to learn lighting fundamentals.

it's SOOO ANNOYING but alas......they are all correct. it helps a lot.

one thing i also really want to point out is that i like creating a big shadow shape first before fixing up the little details (such as folds and whatever) because it helps me focus on the way the lighting actually works instead of tunnel vision-ing into making the shading make sense on the clothing.

contact shadows (i dont remember if thats what theyre called okay) theyre fucking ugly because im not actually thinking sorry 💔

okay so basically:

contact shadows (if that's what they're called) are the spots in shading and lighting where light will NEVER hit.

shadows are still influenced by the colors and lights around it (it's why a blue shadow and a yellow shadow feel completely different, despite both being shadows) so it's not always COMPLETELY dark.

BUT! there are small points in shadows where light never hits, and they're almost always super dark or pitch black.

it's hard to explain shadow and light so briefly for a tutorial, but you'll notice it when watching fundamental studies and when trying it out for yourself

YES i unclipped the multiply layer YES its ugly and terrifying but it makes coloring the multiply layer easier okay the colors merged w multiply so now it looks cool and has depth overlaying colors that actually make sense

so basically what i did was color the multiply layer that i used to shade the overall drawing

adding a band of red/orange/yellow around where the light hits, and blue where the shadows get big and wide, gives it a fake ambient occlusion effect in the way that a person would get if they stood under the sun with a clear blue sky

the colors don't have to make sense, especially because i never draw backgrounds, but coloring the shadows really help it give a sense of depth and extra subtle detail and effect that just helps make the painting look nicer

around the end, i also put in colors (in an overlay layer with a low opacity brush) that actually make sense in context of the drawing, which is the lit cigarette and the yellow eyelights

mostly because none of the colors were making sense and i needed to actually make use of the lighting that DOES exist in the drawing lol

adding a muddy golden yellow pin light layer (opacity turned down to like 40-50%) to make the light colors less ugly lol

i SWEAR by the fucking pin light layer style. it's so useful and so so underrated.

i used an almost brown-ish gold color on stop of all the layers, and with the pin light layer, it helped make the bright (almost blue-ish) white colors more warm and more yellow. it just helps make things more warm (something i prefer)

i could probably show what it looks like without adjusting the layer opacity to truly show off what i mean (like in the coming section) but i sadly forgot to do that lol

make a layer on top of your drawing with this color in these ranges YES the drawing is fully merged NO don't be afraid, the base was fucking ugly anyway 💔 make this layer into an exclude/exclusion layer style TRUST turn down your exclusion layer opacity from a range of 10% to 40% literally until you're happy with the contrast and the way the color over the drawing. use your eyeballs. i know you can do it im so proud of you

this is pretty self-explanatory instruction-wise, so i'll go into why i do this instead

i really like art that seems like it has low contrast, with almost mid-gray shading and lines. i don't personally use dark and bold lines and shading, unless i find it necessary for the tone of the piece, so using this method helps lower the contrast of the art and make it look "pleasantly muddy" in the way that it's easier and softer on the eyes.

the inverted blue color also helps makes things warmer!

the exclusion layer style is still a bit of a mystery to me but i really like the effect it gives, even if i don't completely get how it works lol

if you want an alternative method to this, and if you have access to it (because i primarily use sai and sai only),

i absolutely encourage you to play around and experiment with gradient maps.

there are so many out there you can make yourself or even get from others that just give the painting an extra amount of depth and color variation. they're SO fun.

personally, if sai2 gets a gradient map update, it's over for y'all it will literally be so over no one will be able to stop me

then i merged everything and actually adjusted the contrast back up because it was looking too muddy for me 💔 but the color adjustments are still there so all hope is not lost here's a comparison of the adjusted contrast in black and white (adjusted on the left) (newly merged layer without adjusting the contrast on the right)

as you can see, i actually turned the contrast back up (despite talking all about how i liked things with less contrast lol)

i wanted to demonstrate that doing adjustments should be done in moderation, and is why i adjust layer opacity often when making color effects

you are free to play around with colors to help your style, but don't lose your initial idea and colors along the way.

you still need to trust your own colors and intuition!

along with that, i just want to say that it's completely okay to change your mind mid-painting, and it's okay to make somewhat drastic changes.

don't be afraid to change things you don't like or change your mind about certain aspects way later on

that's basically the whole thing of this!!! don't be scared!!!

now im gonna hold your hand when i say this..........but you need to learn how to render by yourself. it seems like i can teach you but i literally can't, because rendering is different on every piece and depending on how clean your base is. i have to render A LOT because of how fucking ugly my sketches are LMAO to simplify it, think of it as obsessively cleaning up every detail you can see, but with a color picker and a clean, hard edged brush. if you have shit lineart, you don't have to redraw it cleanly over and over, just paint over it. that's basically what rendering is

THIS especially is where you need to be brave and stop being scared.

like i said, i can't teach you how to render, and it's something you have to discover yourself because rendering is something that will always be personal to every single piece you make. the way you render on every piece is different.

on one piece, you will barely need to render, and on another, rendering is more than half of your ENTIRE process.

don't be afraid to paint over your old art.

rendering is a process that's both very perfectionist yet also very careless.

find your balance and just go for it.

and then that's it……..u did it………..now yuo know how to paint and render. it's literally just layering shading and lighting knowledge until you think it makes sense and looks okay lol additional note: since i render in only one layer (you don't HAVE to do this, but it'll be harder for you…), i also made slight adjustments with the transform (and liquify, if you have it) tool to make things more proportionate. (i drew the head too big lol)

if you compare the finished piece to the final unrendered base, you can see that a LOT changed, including a bit of subtle proportion adjustment.

particularly, the sleeves changed A LOT (because i really didn't like them)

but it's also over all cleaner and more coherent, instead of having haphazard colors and shading just thrown about.

rendering is when you finally use all 100% of your brain to finalize and figure out where the shading should go, where to clean up your lines, where to ERASE or ADD BACK in lines, and make sure all your colors look coherent.

it's not as intimidating as it seems, i only use a hard edged brush with a little bit of color mixing and my color picker.

it's like dragging and dropping colors to cover up mistakes, it's really quite fun when you get used to it

i wish i could explain it clearer but it's hard to describe without visuals!

i hope this helped, and i hope all my yapping isn't annoying (art as a special interest beloved)

have fun studying and trying to render in my art style!

[neeean]

Rendering step-by-step (2022)

[neeean]

I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love I want to fall out of love and I wish I were aroace

[neeean]

Get you a boy who loves his grandparents!!! 🥰

[neeean]

✧ "Don't forget me Colt" ✧

Thank you all so much for the love on my last Colt fan art! ♡⁠ It pushed me to use the holiday idleness to finally sketch a new piece which I've meant to do for ages...which in turn made me realize how much I miss ROD and Colt😭 I'd rlly give a lot for a fan-made sequel

[neeean]

Dragon room

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how the hell do people manage to get all their assignments done in a dual system?? I'm three semesters in and I still haven't learned -- safe for the fact that apparently it relies on sacrificing all your free time and ending up with a burnout.🤠

[neeean]

like whatever man

[neeean]

✦ Join the Introverted Side ✦

my first ever college project. they're basically street stickers used as ads for a Discord server aimed at introverted people from the area. I had to censor a little bit as to not dox anything.

[neeean]

f*ck microsoft

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

[neeean]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[neeean]

✧ Colt ✧

apparently, I managed to kick myself and colourize this sketch from 2022. I just forgot to post it. the funky colors and contrast is a result of how it got scanned. I originally didn't intend for it to turn out this way but really liked the result and decided to keep it.

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pony aziraphale and crowley! :3 ive been on a pony streak after a long time of not drawing anything so :3 they r both alicorns cus they can fly and they have magical powers…..