#nitsumi [🌂]

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The stain of originally making a character at the age of 12 😔

I thought I was so creative ghghgh

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Me when... headache ouchie

my heart says I want to roleplay, my head says ow

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staring...

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pspsps heyyy you made sprite edits for your oc right ⁉️ unless im misremembering in which case tjis is gonna b embarrassing af but UM

h. i don’t know how to do sprite exits do you have any tips ?? or something ??? i wanna make my own for another blog

Yeah I did! I kinda forget I don't really post about it on here that much bleh

Okay! So, first I think you gotta decide what game you wanna base your sprites on. I picked DR2 so most of my advice is gonna be based on that game- but each game has a slightly different way of making sprites (though DR1&2 are more similar). For example, DRV3's sprites are usually more detailed and use thinner lines compared to DR2.

Ex:

I use multiple DR2 characters as bases, but it's mostly for body position- and hands... grr

For shading, I picked a light grey color and used the multiply filter for the clothes, hair, and eyes, but for the skin, I used a lighter skin tone so there was more color to the skin. Fold shading is a bit odd, so keep in mind where your light source will be for the sprite (for all sprites it's either on the right or left).

The sprites can help inform where you need to put folds and shading, but honestly sometimes just wing it and draw them where it feels right (or look at irl references).

For hair, you're going to want to group them into sections and divide them by a few lines. With Chiaki above, she has rectangles of hair that are split up by shorter lines (front hair) and dividing lines (back hair). This isn't a hard rule (I mean look at Hajime and Komaeda), but multiple characters do have this detail and it gives the appearance there are more hair strands. Also, shade along these lines.

Eyes are another thing. Every character has unique eyes. Girls typically have eyelashes, but again not a hard rule (shuichi 💙). Also, the line of shading over the iris is always near the pupil (slightly above or below). It's really up to you how you wanna draw your character's eyes otherwise!

Referring to game sprites will help in general, but fan sprites can also give inspo if you can't find what you're looking for in game sprites.

Almost forgot to mention that the sprites are kinda messy if you take a closer look! Honestly I think they may have just cleaned up messy sketches to make the line art, but I forget to do that myself cause my brain wants perfect lines. So you can definitely shortcut sometimes and be messy. If it was good enough for the official game, it's good enough for tumblr ^^

Here's the texture I use to overlay onto Nitsumi's clothes and hair, you may wanna adjust the size and compare it to DR2 sprites.

Also in case you use ibispaintx, I use this brush, 0.3-0.4 for smaller details like hair and folds, 0.5 for the outer outline of a character.

Good luck! Tag me if you post them! :D

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making nitsumi in stardew valley so uhhgh choices i made about her actual outfit because i need to step back

I am being so particular on character customization like omg pick something woman ghhh

anyway stuff below the cut :P

before I decided she'd wear a dress shirt and cardigan, she initially wore a mint green turtleneck and a light purple blazer. but then I thought "that would probably get very hot" and so I changed it. even tho... *looks at gundham tanaka*

also i had too many details on the blazer, but no cat, so really, it was inferior in every way.

Basically the blazer had a lot of patches that got to be too much imo because her hair consumes like, her entire back. and idk why i put details there. and I had no idea what colors they were gonna be to work with the rest of her.

i (kinda?) moved those details to her tights which no one will ever see in a million billion years

I haven't actually solidified what I'd want her tights to look like now but maybe like, different kinds of visible mending? (example \/)

also. the dress shirt she wears now was supposed to be more apparently stained green because a part of my brain still wanted mint somewhere on her design, but I think it's fine with the off-white look too

another thing. the skirt was originally supposed to look like this, i drew her and colored it like this, but when it came to making the sprites I realized that hey. that's a lot of detail for a skirt, especially if i gotta do that multiple times. so I made it blue

idk who is reading this but thank you for listening to me ramble about my silly oc blehbbkknkn

I hope your day is going well or gets better :)

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I hated doing digital art on my phone 💀

very old art of nitsumi cause im feeling sentimental. one thing about old ocs is that they sometimes grow up with you, so that's cool :D

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why did I commit to the idea i should make another sprite rahhh im sorry 💀