One year later...

[strangetomato]

Hey, I just realized that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the day I posted the prologue to Strangetown, Here we Come. If I was more on the ball, I could have made an effort to post the next update on that day, but I completely forgot about it instead. I have been making baby steps towards the next update, though, so that's good. Looking back, I remember my initial burst of activity, where I was posting a new chapter every week, and sometimes more than that (I think I even did three in one week, at one point). Of course, the chapters were much shorter then, and I was working from photos I had already shot from playing the hood Prosperity Challenge style. I still play it like that, but much more slowly, and scenes are more posed and planned out.

To celebrate the ocassion, I thought I'd share a couple of painting recolours that I created using some of those great JRO drawings by beyondheroism__ and my SO. I'm working on more of these too, so I'll eventually do a bigger download post.





Drawing of Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia by my SO, recoloured on the mesh for "Two Dogs and an Olive" by Mixt Hupp from Nightlife (the nod to Picasso).

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Drawing of Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia by beyondheroism__, recoloured on the mesh for A Stroke from Nightlife (which doesn't reference anything specific, that I know of... correct me if I'm wrong).

I love how you can still see the touch of red on the side of the canvas in this one. It makes it look like this was painted over a different painting, and I like that. It makes it seem like it was bought at a student show for a bargain (you can find some great stuff that way). The staples are a nice detail too, even if they should be on the back of the canvas.

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That's a little glimpse of some renovations I've been making at the Specter estate. This is, of course, Ophelia's room. The dogs love the bay window.




Just like Nervous loves his new fish tank.

You'll see more of the new look in the next update.

Comments

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

*gasp* Nervous! I seriously have so much love for him and all he did was look in a fish tank. XD I think I almost ~fan girl squeed~

I missed the puppy, too. I forgot all about it.

I love the paintings(the winter one is so cute), I actually had the original J/R/O painting in one of my sims' dorms:



~oooo~

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Nervous is adorable. I've been looking forward to doing his chapter for a while, but then I just stalled out. I keep wondering if I should give him new clothes, but then I draw a blank at what I'd actually change him into. That baggy old non-style outfit just suits him so well.

Oh, how cool. :) I'm glad to see it getting some use in your game. I love that scarf drawing too, and it's on a cute little square painting now, so I've been sticking it everywhere. It's included in a wall of paintings in the apartment for my Round Robin chapter too.