Ouch

Its not trite at all, you are essentially asking how to be creative, which is a taught rather than innate skill that requires deliberate cultivation.

Creativity is a form of problem solving born out of limitations. You need to be able to recognize what your limitations are, then consider your options for integrating them into your solution (consider the classic example of a coin being used in absence of a screwdriver). There are a number of limitations we are all working within when creating things in the game: low resolution textures, limited options for features, placement barriers. There are also common limitations you see players impose upon themselves though they aren't explicitly limitations that the game places on the player, like wanting a character to look acceptable at every angle and in every expressive animation.

A common limitation I've seen others mention is their inability to draw, but I've seen this this easily sidestepped with stamps and tracing. And I will mention that even skilled draughtsmen feel frustrated if they are used to dealing with particularly high resolution images due to their perceived lack of control over the smoothness of their drawing. This is a pixel based application and requires both an eye for simplification and the patience for meticulous cleaning of details (using the joycons and not a stylus) in order to be legible at the resolutions displayed in-game. So the ability to draw in itself is not something that effortlessly produces what the creator desires. Anecdotally, many pixel artists I've known can't "draw", their process is closer to cross-stitching, perler beading, or even building in Minecraft.

Outside of all of that you are in a sandbox where you are allowed to create essentially anything at all. There is no real guidance in the form of island items or game progression. Once again, creatively it is more akin to Minecraft than it is to Animal Crossing or The Sims -- you are literally in control of all the creation that happens within the specific "biome" of the island. This can lead to a lot of choice paralysis and aimlessness if you don't begin setting your own limitations to work around.

These limitations don't have to be draconian. A simple limitation is picking one feature from the mii maker and then building around it until you have something interesting. Personally, I utilize the island layout and object maker to impose thematic limitations, building up the island itself as a character and then creating miis that could live within it.

A 70 year old man came to see me. He asked me to lingeringly kiss the nape of his neck. He said that's all he wanted. I asked why. He said that when he was still a teenager, when Japan was still embroiled in the Pacific War, all of his friends kept being recruited. He too was up for enlistment. And the one thing that kept him going during the grueling training that they went through to prepare for battle was the kindness of one of his superiors, a boy seven years older than he, who had looked after him. Then, one day, this older boy asked him if he could come to his room. When he arrived, the older boy said "Tomorrow I'm being sent to the front. I may never return. I have one last thing to ask of you." He wanted to spend the night together. He hadn't wanted sex (in a narrow sense) as one might imagine. The boy had simply held him in his arms all night long, caressing his neck with his lips. The older boy never did return. And ever since, this old man had kept the memory of this night, and the warmth and touch of this boy's lips on his neck. Even as he grew older, even through his marriage, he had kept coming to boys like me, to relive this memory. Old man, were my lips warm like his?

A world without Tittens (2010-2025).

Thank you! That's very kind.