#withdrawnheart

Thank you so much!! It’s absolutely not a bother at all <3 I am not great at explaining, so I’m sorry if I blabber on/say things that are obvious!! I also have a tutorial here, that’s a bit more organized, plus its another limited palette!

Just fyi, I use the app Procreate on the ipad!

Time lapse

Sketch

Here’s a wip image of very early on! I use at least a basic grid system for all of my longer portraits, I just have a dreadful fear of getting facial features wrong. And grids/reference photos are absolutely not cheating. I see some of those takes sometimes, it makes me cringe. There are piles and piles of the greatest artists of all time using both of these, there’s nothing wrong with us using them either!

Color Composition

I start out by blocking out the face and clothes on separate layers and making clipping masks for them, then just picking all the colors I have and mixing them together. Right now I just want to see what the options are! When I’m laying out where I want things to go, it’s helpful to keep in mind general color principles. Cooler colors work great for shadows, they sit back further from warmer ones. So I already know I want the blues for the shadow, now I just have to figure out where to put all the warm colors. I tried a couple different looks (reddish vs yellowy orange on the face for example!), and picked my favorite. You don’t have to exactly stick to it! I couldn’t find a spot I really liked for the red orange until about halfway through.

Rendering

So I am so bad at explaining things, I repainted a section of her cheek to try to illustrate my render process! I start out by laying down sections of color with the flat brush, trying to get a nice gradient from dark to light. Then, I use a combination of the oil brush and smudge tool to blend those sections together. If you don’t use Procreate, I think any brush with intense blending with a nice texture would work just as well!

Like his sister, brother, mother...friend Gwen.  I got a lot of blondes in my game, which is actually one of the reasons I decided to create this drama XD

Ignore the ability to grow hair instantaneously in the sims. Here’s her side-by-side.  I did dye her brows too because the blonde just looked strange.  Some how she no longer looks related to the Munsons huh?

Saturday July 24, 2021 at 11:45 AM Central Time US, everyone had their pitchforks at the ready, but quickly dropped them as it was confirmed that Corey did indeed like Lola’s hair.

Thanks bestie ♥

Just them dang earrings left.

She doesn’t fit into any of my neighborhoods either, but it’ll be fun just to have her as a random townie.

I usually try to color coordinate his outfits to his tattoos, but this outfit was just on point. 

 “Hey Fia! Can you tell me where I could find the necklace Laegrinna in...”

I thought digital perversion was the old garden of shadows?

nekosayuri replied to your photo “And the (kinda requested) Briony / Graham pinup posters are done!...”

Hot damn :!

I didn’t know I needed pinup posters in my life :P

withdrawnheart replied to your photo “And the (kinda requested) Briony / Graham pinup posters are done!...”

wcif Bri's poses? especially the last 4

Huh, that’s a tough question XD The last one is definitely by Janita. The fifth is by MayPink (reuploaded here). I think the base of the third is also from this posebox, but I adjusted both arms. The fourth is heckin adjusted, I think it started as one of the poses from the MayPink one too, but I changed both of the arms and legs and spine and head, so it doesn’t look like the original at all XD

julietoon-sims2 replied to your photo “Frilly Dress - a mashup (+ top only) And it’s done! I’m not 100%...”

Love your frilly dresses <3

Thank you so much! <3

taylors-simblr replied to your photo “Frilly Dress - a mashup (+ top only) And it’s done! I’m not 100%...”

Cute <3 and I was going to suggest those shoes, but I thought they might not be your thing, so I didn’t and now I’m really happy you picked them, they look great :3

With lots of really belated replies, as is the custom.

Don’t worry, it’s not a stupid question.

Hey! Hair is a conversion by Rented-Space of a TS3 mesh called Bedhead. I use these recolors.

Oh, I believe I already uploaded that sim once? But anyway, you can get them here. Didn’t include any CC besides the skin and eyes since all my downloads are renamed and you could end up with duplicates. They will appear on the female bin btw.