please turn the lights off I have a headache

my sister came over this morning and we did some water colour painting with mom ! my sister did the ghost, I did the owl and my mom did the birds. I haven't done traditional art since college, which would've been about 9 years ago now

trying something a bit different with my art style

and by you, I mean me, and by me, I mean you

I finished that dressup game I said I was working on !! would very appreciate people giving it a go because I spent literally a week on this. like 7 days off work doing nothing but drawing clothes lmao

in order to make the different body types work without ballooning up the file size way more than it already is, I had to make it so you choose your skin tone twice. in meiker you can't arrange the order elements appear in, but I recommend starting with these two options to pick out your body type and skin tone first, since some options look better on certain bodies imo

also !! meiker !! I don't hear people talk about it much, but it's really cool I like it a lot! it's like picrew, but instead of uploading a bunch of pngs, you arrange and label your layers in folders and upload a single psd file. personally I liked the process a lot more than picrew because I'd rather work with one big file than a million tiny image files, but that's just me. plus you can make the images bigger than you can on picrew too

also posting this again since I can attach it to a post with the game, but I made a tutorial on how to create a bunch of colour options super fast if you want to make your own dressup game. there's no way I'd have nearly as many options if I didn't know how to do this. once you understand the actions feature you can do so much stuff so much more efficiently it's insane it's like my favourite photoshop feature

I did it! I completed a new years resolution!

I used to always try to draw every day, even if it was just a doodle, but that always failed. then I tried to aim for once a week, again even if it was just a doodle, but that was still too much. this time I went for at least one fully rendered piece a month, and I think that's the pace I'm best cut out for

reminder too I have an art blog @angiestownart where I just post my art, usually with some extra commentary about it

Instead of custom gifts for my family this year, I'm just giving everyone a calendar and then buying individual gifts. which is a lot more work but it's a lot less thinking

I tried to make the calendar part lighter so it'd be easier to write on, but I think I still might need to include white ink pens with them lmao