#craft update!

[retrogamingblog2]

Stardew Valley Nintendo Switch Dock made by LudaWorkshop

[arkodianart]

An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it's grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂

[turboemmy]

edgar!! ^_^

[ratbugs]

okay update: it worked BRILLIANTLY (so far).

it’s in a rough state, but mission accomplished! i did still use yarn initially to tie the pumpkin to the driftwood just for stability while adding the clay, but not very much. the color of the clay is so lovely and i think i will be able to grow moss on it later.

now i will let it sit to dry. . . and we’ll see how stable it is. - i think i will also clean off some of the clay later because it got a little more messy than intended.

so happy with this solution because there is so so so much clay on the beach and my goal was to not spend any money on this and to use almost completely recycled trash/trinkets 🎃 🎣

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my plan for this base is a cute little ‘fishing village’. i have a ton of sticks and fishing line/fishing bobbers/fishing thingies etc. . . that i gathered from the fishing pier where people DO NOT FUCKING CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES (though it works out for me now, y’know what they say. . . one man’s trash blah blah blah).

i’m excited to begin and see how it goes

^id: fimsh

i’ve been trying to figure out how to make sculpture/setups (like little fairy village scenes etc…) for terrariums without having to use any kind of glue (because it just always turns out bad/hot glue is easily beaten by water/i’d like for the creations to be natural).

yarn/sewing works for most little things. like making houses out of sticks or fastening little pieces to other little pieces. but for the big things, like the base for the scene (ex: i was trying to stick a large piece of driftwood and a pumpkin candle holder together) for this, yarn just doesn’t look very good.

then i remembered: i have all these squares of red clay collected from my local beach. and they are PERFECT. easy and good for molding and dries FIRM. even misting the clay when it’s dry does not ruin its form.

need to let the clay simmer in some water for a bit before i can start but i’m very excited to see how this turns out.

^id: s q u a r e

[remxedmoon]

What are your thoughts on ISAT's magic system?

AUTISM BLAST

okay long rambly post incoming. for the record like 90% of this is pure unfiltered headcanon. and almost all of this is about colors. sorry if this is hard to follow!!! i need to get this all out of my system.

oh also! a lot of this is based on a really good post by @/chronologically-challenged that shows off the differences between each character’s craft style! go check that out it’s really good

okay!! so!!! colors. this is just my own thing, but i personally like to color code the different types of craft!

don’t worry about those middle tones yet just put a pin in those

there’s still a little bit of color variety within craft types (for flavor), but generally, rock is blue, paper is yellow, and scissors is red. i’m not going to lie to you i only did this because the splatoon testfire had these colors. it’s also why my triplets designs are colored like that!

i think these colors also just fit the descriptions of these crafts? red feels like a more aggressive and active color, which matches how piercing craft is generally more focused on dealing damage, blue tends to be calmer, which matches protective craft being more supportive , that kinda thing. something something children’s hospital. yellow is a bit of a wildcard here lol, it just looks nice with the other two.

putting aside the colors for a mo! don’t worry those’ll come back soon. i’ve also been thinking a lot about how dual craft types work, though this is a little more speculative. i’m entirely basing this on how mira works. basically, one craft type seems to be more ‘dominant’ over the other. while mira is both paper and scissors, she’s still weak to rock, her basic attack is scissors, and her scissors skill (jolly round rondo) does much more damage than her paper skill (artsy silent burst). she behaves more like a scissors type, with an extra affinity for paper. which i think is interesting!!!

in terms of colors, i think this would manifest as mira’s craft being tinted orange, as a mix of both her craft type’s colors! this is partially what those uncategorized colors are for. while her scissors attacks are only slightly tinted, her paper attacks would be a lot closer to orange! and this would apply to other dual crafts as well. a rock/paper type would have more greenish attacks, a rock/scissors type would have more purply ones, etc etc.

i think this color mixing would also apply to single craft types trying to use a craft type that isn’t their own, though it’d prolly become less pronounced the more a person ‘gets used’ to using that craft type, so to speak. in a while rockodile would be pretty solidly purple, while rock bottom is more of an indigo color, and odile’s craft skills probably only slightly tinted as well.

ok!!! that was a lot about colors. i’m really fucking normal about colors. onto craft styles!! this is still kinda about colors tho sorry. also, again, go check out @/chronologically-challenged’s post if you haven’t already, it’ll prolly explain this better than i will

for a tl;dr on that post, each country has a different way of using craft. the forgotten island has lightless craft that tends to manifest as stars and zigzags, vaugarde has big, rounded bursts of grey craft (with smaller circles around it), and ka bue’s craft is more diamond shaped/triangular and tends to be on the lighter side.

this is also the part i’m a little less sure about. i haven’t drawn these out in my normal style!! so a lot of this is subject to change. sorry about that!

anyways. i wanted to preserve the island’s lightless craft while still making it colorful, so i decided to give it a sort of. halo effect? i guess? i wanted it to vaguely resemble the ring of light around a black hole or a solar eclipse, but that is a lot harder to do with the zigzag shape of the craft + my color limitations. and as i’ve recently learned, glow effects look really weird with my pixelly art. so this is all just flat colors 😓

shhh don’t mind the art here i’ve totally posted it before 🩶

vaugarde is pretty simple comparatively!! the craft is a sort of midshade ingame, so i just made the main color the normal craft colors. not much to say here!

and ka bue is in a similar boat! i did kinda draw it in my odile sprite redraw, but i didn’t really look at references so it’s kinda boring looking there. not much to say here either!!

and!! as we can see from the king’s special attack art, craft styles can kinda mix together. king’s style follows the general shape of vaugardian craft, but keeps the shade and stars from the forgotten island! i think it’d be fun to play with that a little more teehee. i imagine these are a lot more variable depending on how engrossed someone is in a culture, hence why odile’s craft doesn’t borrow from vaugarde’s style. unless she does? it’s not like we see other ka buans using craft in game. who knows.

also because i forgot, some extra bonus doodles of that craft color mixing i mentioned earlier! yipee!

and that’s it!!! there’s probably some other stuff that i am. currently forgetting. but this post is absurdly long enough!!! thank you so much for the ask i’m so sorry for autism blasting you about isat and color theory. am i still cool. here’s all of my craft doodles as compensation for reading this giant infodump. i’m so so sorry.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[ravagerrush]

all hail the glow cloud terracotta block!

a silly little moment from cleo's latest video. background is a screenshot from her video because it just wasn't workin for me

[thebarrenspinster]

i just want knitblr to know my current project is a lace shawl and i am using black suri alpaca for the yarn. please react accordingly

[tele-mesmerism]

squares progress: 72/300!

i got another shade of purple so now ive been able to make some squares with the blue thatll be the end of the spectrum. ive been having a lot of fun with color combos and the ◇ shape and diagonal stripe patterns recently.

ive made at least a square a day every day since i got my loom so progress has been steady!

[crabsnpersimmons]

an update on the crazy idea i mentioned: i have started on the paper prototype

+chopsticks

+lazy susan

+little gremlin helper? (he's more of a distraction, he keeps giggling and creeping about and asking me what makes me so special?)

the tl;dr: i had the crazy idea of making a small model carousel to display my DCA pins on. and since i'm having a bit of an artblock, this will provide a good break for me.

also apologies for the delay on replying to asks! you're all so sweet and your messages always brighten my day. i will get to you as soon as i can! i'm just arting a little slower as of late :')

longer explanation under the cut

so i ordered the youtooz dca pins because i earn adult money now and this is what i choose to spend that adult money on. and i realized i'm probably not gonna wear them because i'd be too scared of losing them, but i also don't wanna just put them in a box or frame them (some are bobble-headed and some dangle! i gotta let them move yknow?)

then this crazy idea came to mind... what if i made a tiny model carousel to display the pins on? that way they're displayed safely, but they are free to move around and be played with and i can remove them if i ever DO feel comfortable wearing them out. and if i ever get more DCA pins or keychains (like fan merch yknow 😍) then i can always add another "tier" to the carousel and make it taller. or i can mix and match what goes on the carousel. i also already have a lazy susan (i bought a pack of them from amazon for my spices and sauces) so, i could just put the model on it to make it spin (so i don't even need to make the spinning base!)

so yeah, this is going to be occupying my time and brain for the next couple of days (i'm somewhat going through a bit of an artblock too, so this will help me take a little break)

[mochi-makes-shit]

lovecore season shop update is a little late but it is LIVE!! come see my goofy little wares located here in my ko-fi shop!!

many new things have been added, from stickers, to bookmarks, to candles, and theyre all super cute if i do say so myself

bookmarks!! the peets come in five flavors!! seal point, grey tabby, orange, void, and calico!! the smut goblin bookmarks are holographic!! the cheesey booktok esque scrapbook ones have gold foil and sometimes tassels!

five flavors of candles!! in two sizes!!

a new pride flag patch for the line up!! plus more peets, this time as stickers, brought to you by my cats unerringly aim

and of course, just so many honry conversation hearts: eight phrases each in four colors!! and theyre big too!!!

i had a ton of fun making all of this, and im really proud of how everything turned out. for just fucking around, the "finding out" has gone great! so please enjoy the fruits of my labor, and make me not feel so bad about buying a (refurbished) ipad to so i can continue to improve as i make more art like this

shop is located here on ko-fi

[kitsudy]

Even though I mentioned being punk I realized I’ve never posted anything about my crafting projects.

For example my jacket, admittedly with no band patches, that I’ve been working on for about a year.

Close up on the ‘spikes’ and pins

Or my newest project

A pair of cargo jeans that I turned into a cargo skirt and so excited to put stuff on

And little things like my gloves and sleeves.

Click for better quality

[sunmoon-starfactory]

The Giving Tree - Optimized

Surprise! We are not dead yet and today we have a big optimization update! This update reduces the "The Giving Tree" set in size by more than 50% (106 to 36,2 MB). You also get a cute little bag planter which doubles as a Texture Main. (Surfaces -> Misc)

Technical details: Each tree consists of 4 files: sapling, growing, mature and felled. Because of the way the files have been optimized, you have to make sure that you do not delete the sapling file for the trees you use. Trees are standalone, but the sapling is always required. As is the planter bag.

As a manual has not been written (yet), you can find more information about this set and its usage at The Keep

Update instructions: All files have been modified and renamed, please REMOVE all old files.

Download The Giving Tree

View Set at The Keep

[tblsomedoodles]

FW! Mikey crochets!

he does a lot of other things too and crochet isn't his main thing (i think Raph eventually takes that as his main hobby later on) but he does do it!

[treibholz-des-universums]

Brb gonna teach myself how to make my own jewelry in one day