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pushing500 · 2 months ago

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hello!! i love your rimworld stories so much! this might be a dumb question, but i was wondering if you had any tips for storytelling while playing rimworld? i love the idea of getting more into the narrative/roleplay aspects, but i sort of feel lost when i try. another possible dumb question: do you take notes as you play and/or do you rely on screenshots to translate into the comics? i’m probably overthinking this haha…im just fascinated with the idea of using a game like rimworld to tell a story

Hello!! I'm so glad to hear you like the stories! I have a lot of fun playing/drawing them, but it's especially nice when others appreciate them, too ❤️

Storytelling tips, hey? Hmm... I always think that as long as you're having fun, the story will sort of reveal itself. For me personally, it helps if I have characters I really like. When I first asked my brother to teach me how to play RimWorld, I actually didn't really like it. It felt like too much at once, and I couldn't get invested in the characters while also trying to figure out how to survive and make the game work.

It was only after my brother installed the EdB Prepare Carefully mod that I actually started to get into the story part of the game. I made a colony of characters based on a kids' TV show my baby sister and I watched (PJ Masks, for anyone curious). Now that I had characters I already knew, I could enjoy seeing the way they interacted with each other and the tasks they did, and I got more invested in keeping them safe during raids and researching things to make their lives easier. Only then did I start to write/draw what was happening, mostly for my own amusement but also because I enjoyed sharing it with my veteran player brother so he could roll his eyes at all the mistakes I was making (love you, bro).

Now, I use the Character Editor mod because it works better, but I still like to start out with at least one custom character in each new game of RimWorld. It helps me get settled in and ready to see what kind of story Randy Random decides to tell with them.

I don't know if that's helpful at all, but that's my tip for getting into the swing of things.

As for your other question, I don't really take notes. I do give the screenshots silly names that sometimes help me decide where I want to go with the drawing for that part of the story, but I mostly just wing it and hope it turns out in an interesting and (mostly) comprehensible way.

For example, screenshots from The Children of Ecthuctu:

Screenshots from A Mechanitor's Message:

I'm very organised and systematic, as you can see lmao

#asks #rimworld #gracie plays #gracie is bad at advice #I'm sorry I can't be more helpful lol #I just draw what I find amusing and hope other people are amused too #rimworld is marketed as a story generating game so Randy Random does a lot of the heavy lifting tbh #I just do the drawing #thanks for the ask!!#Have an amazing day <3 <3 <3

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paintedcrows · 3 months ago

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Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

#DID ANYONE TELL HIM. DOES MR NERD KNOW THEY MADE LIVE ACTION LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES #FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING CAME OUT IN 2001 DOES HE KNOW. HAS HE WATCHED THEM #more importantly the HOBBIT came out in december of 2012. meaning Ford came back JUST in time to watch it in theatres #which I choose to believe he and Dipper did do. I'm gonna draw that actually. Those nerds love Tolkien you cant tell me otherwise #stanford pines #ford pines #grunkle ford #dipper pines #mason pines #gravity falls #GF fanart #fan art #fanart #digital art #comic #silly #my art

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puppyeared · 3 months ago

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filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

#THIS TOOK ME FOREVER RAAHHHH #i had help from my mom with stuff like the parts of the traje de mestiza which is the outfit shes wearing #this trend looks so much fun and i wanted to join in.. im first gen canadian though so ive never been to the philippines and only #know thru stories of my parents growing up. im proud of my heritage but there are some things i didnt grow up with that #make me feel disconnected from my culture. so it was nice to talk to my mom abt it and ask for her help with this :3 #the pleated tapis is meant to resemble her skirt.. i had no way of adding her stockings but i noticed the piano key design #so i used that for the saya. the bandana is meant to resemble her hairties and shes wearing bakya wooden slippers with embroidery #i kinda wanted to add the panuelo to resemble her tie as a finishing touch but i forgor ;w; just imagine it i guess #my mom really likes this. shes a little confused abt the blue hair and i had to explain her hair is like that but she thinks shes pretty #originally i wanted her holding the woven pamaypay and fanning herself because ITS HOT ITS 25 FUCKING DEGREES TODAY #but i couldnt get the pose right so i settled for this. i wanna draw her and brazilian miku high fiving ill do that tmrw #my art #myart #hatsune miku #miku worldwide #philippines #vocaloid #miku

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ekko-idk · 7 months ago

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Combining my two biggest fixations atm <3

Edit: bonus comic!!

#I suck at drawing Laios #It's the armor I just can't do it #my art #dunmeshi laios #laios fanart #Dungeon meshi #Undertale #Undertale fanart #flowey #Undertale flowey #Fanart

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alexandriad · 3 months ago

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jumping on the bandwagon with an ancient greek miku

#hatsune miku #I'm not even a big fan or anything but I've seen other art depicting her in various historical styles so ofc I had to do this one #think I'm gonna draw another ancient greek miku but this time in my normal style just in era appropriate fit #tagamemnon #pseudoart

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dovesick · 11 months ago

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endless night

#animal art #animal comic #penguin art #comic art #artists on tumblr #just a comic about emperor penguins #(they are emperor penguins but yellow didn’t go with the colour scheme loool)#(i tried to make it work just trust me lol)#i keep forgetting to upload here woops #sometimes i don’t wanna draw anthros #i’ve been wanting to experiment again #i have a couple pieces planned #but i also wanna do more horror #rlyyyyy hard to decide lmaoooo

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hinamie · 2 months ago

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post-graduation trip airport looks

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #fushiguro megumi #nobara kugisaki #itafushikugi #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #jujutsu kaisen fanart #these took ages but fr once i am choosing to forgive myself given th fact tht i was coming out of A State when i drew them #im normal now dw drawing the first years wearing merch of my comfort content fixed me #when in doubt play dress up. life hack #i am holding fast 2 my hc tht megumi is a fiend @ indie platformers and is a household name on the celeste speedrun leaderboards #argue with a wall this is my jujutsu kaisen #megumi designated Drink Runner also #alr in line at a cafe texts their gc 'what do you guys want' n gets mad @ nobara fr making him go to a Second shop 2 get her bubble tea #anyway theres not much 2 say abt these just bc i needed sth Light n Easy 2 get me out of my head #no lore to fashion pieces which is both a blessing and a curse but it Is what i needed #nobara serving looks fr a flight i love u so much. it's probably 8 in the morning n she is in a fully coordinated fit #its so criminal tht we don't have more alt hairstyle official art fr her???? iirc it's Just the lost in paradise mv with her in buns no????#robbed. i am fixing it immediately.#wonder where the 3 of them wld go on a trip

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wanderingibon · 26 days ago

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anya deserved so much better

#mouthwashing #mouthwashing game #mouthwashing art #mouthwashing anya #ibon draws #cw eye strain #eye strain #just in case #massive trigger warning for people interested in the game 😭i myself had to just listen to a video summarizing it #because i don't do well with heavy games like that especially as a survivor and someone with cptsd myself #take care of yourselves

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theriverbeyond · 1 year ago

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companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️

#twitter #trb.txt #websites need to realize that they are not a fandom artist i follow posting cropped art screenshots with a link to a spicy paetrom tier!!!#websites just do not have that draw!!!!!#welcome to me falling asleep posting hour where i empty my entire brain into the internet before falling asleep.

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redpapercraness · 3 months ago

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all four of my sonic 3 movie trailer redraws in one spot 🫡

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canisalbus · 5 months ago

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The forbidden smooth Machete.

A lot of his head is just fluff, without it he's even more noodly than usual.

#own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumbr #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #sorry I'm currently just in a constant state of being behind the schedule with several things #I haven't had the time and energy to draw much of anything #and when I do I choose to give you this #lotsa neck surprisingly limited brain space on this lad #sometimes I think the mane kind of masks his sighthound features but underneath he's got those typical aerodynamic greyhound shapes

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ciearcab · 10 months ago

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how do you live?

#the boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #artists on tumblr #art #illustration #counting this as my first big drawing of the year bc i started it just after new years… v happy i stuck it out to the end #i loved this movie a lot #i want to draw weird herons all the time now

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reginalusus · 5 months ago

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Not these two again (I will do it again).

Ummmm, soon-to-be father-son angst or something.

Jason's line after this was originally: "I don't need a lecture from the guy who swapped his scales and sword for cigarettes and guns," but I have other stuff I wanna move on to and the frames kinda got fucked, sooo.

Ko-Fi.