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strangetomato) wrote2008-11-07 09:39 pm
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Strangetown Extras: Jill paintings (and a great cc find)
Since my last drabble post, which mentioned Buck's nude paintings of Jill (an idea I've been working with for a while, behind the scenes), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beyondheroism__ has been busy drawing me some really great pictures to use with the custom painting feature on the easel. One of them was in a landscape orientation instead of portrait, and I really loved it, so I went hunting for a way to make it work. There's the drafting table, but that adds a filter effect (I'm not a fan of this feature, since it really LOOKS like a filter, and they could have just included drawings that look like blueprints instead - it seems really lazy to me). Another option was recolouring a painting from the buy mode catalogue, but most of those have frames, and frameless is much better for a student art show. So, my hunt continued...
What I found was really great: the Maxis More Functional - Painting Easels Superset by AnnoeskaB at TSR. This set gives you options for different easel sizes, including a table-top easel and a kid-sized easel, and also three new formats - a landscape rectangle, a square, and an oval. All of these work with the custom painting feature that has been included since Pets, and frames can be added if you have FT or AL. It also includes a "continious painting and selling" feature if you want to start up an art-type sweatshop, and there are new paintings included for the default paint mode (even a few grilled cheese). I can't vouch for the quality of these new paintings, because I haven't tested them, and I'm leaning towards skeptical until I see them, because I'm super picky about art.
AnnoeskaB is a featured artist, so you know what that means, and where you should go to get these. I'd most likely donate to her if she hade her own site and freely offered these, because they're awesome, but I'd never subscribe to TSR.
See, Johnny? They aren't all nudes. Some of them are lovingly crafted portraits.
(Now I just imagine Johnny walking through the gallery and seeing the "safe" paintings first, and he begins to feel relieved. Then he turns the corner and BAM! Smut as far as the eye can see. The look on his face would be priceless.)
Here's the oval canvas. This sketch fits the frame well enough, but the stretcher shape is just too unlikely for me. As someone who builds her own stretchers (like many artists), the oval canvas would have to be stretched over some sort of piece of masonite or other flat board that was cut to shape with a jigsaw, and the stretching would be a nightmare. I'm sure people do it, but I prefer the more traditional square or rectangle.
Heehee. I can see Jill's bum.
I mean... *cough* that's a very nice figure study, Buck.
(You're supposed to take art very seriously, don't you know. *wink*)
I'm very excited about the horizontal frames, and the large square frames (which are this wide, but just as high, so they make nice big paintings). I need to get an image in the right format to test those out, so I don't have an example to show you right now.
This drawing is so cute with those heartfarts. I love how bold and graphic this one is (arty graphic, not sexy graphic... it's quite tastefully sexy, I think), and it has a great composition. The sim realism of the heartfarts just makes it even better.
Jill does spray those hearts constantly when Buck is around, so he was really just drawing what he saw.
beyondheroism__ has been busy drawing me some really great pictures to use with the custom painting feature on the easel. One of them was in a landscape orientation instead of portrait, and I really loved it, so I went hunting for a way to make it work. There's the drafting table, but that adds a filter effect (I'm not a fan of this feature, since it really LOOKS like a filter, and they could have just included drawings that look like blueprints instead - it seems really lazy to me). Another option was recolouring a painting from the buy mode catalogue, but most of those have frames, and frameless is much better for a student art show. So, my hunt continued...What I found was really great: the Maxis More Functional - Painting Easels Superset by AnnoeskaB at TSR. This set gives you options for different easel sizes, including a table-top easel and a kid-sized easel, and also three new formats - a landscape rectangle, a square, and an oval. All of these work with the custom painting feature that has been included since Pets, and frames can be added if you have FT or AL. It also includes a "continious painting and selling" feature if you want to start up an art-type sweatshop, and there are new paintings included for the default paint mode (even a few grilled cheese). I can't vouch for the quality of these new paintings, because I haven't tested them, and I'm leaning towards skeptical until I see them, because I'm super picky about art.
AnnoeskaB is a featured artist, so you know what that means, and where you should go to get these. I'd most likely donate to her if she hade her own site and freely offered these, because they're awesome, but I'd never subscribe to TSR.
See, Johnny? They aren't all nudes. Some of them are lovingly crafted portraits.
(Now I just imagine Johnny walking through the gallery and seeing the "safe" paintings first, and he begins to feel relieved. Then he turns the corner and BAM! Smut as far as the eye can see. The look on his face would be priceless.)
Here's the oval canvas. This sketch fits the frame well enough, but the stretcher shape is just too unlikely for me. As someone who builds her own stretchers (like many artists), the oval canvas would have to be stretched over some sort of piece of masonite or other flat board that was cut to shape with a jigsaw, and the stretching would be a nightmare. I'm sure people do it, but I prefer the more traditional square or rectangle.
Heehee. I can see Jill's bum.
I mean... *cough* that's a very nice figure study, Buck.
(You're supposed to take art very seriously, don't you know. *wink*)
I'm very excited about the horizontal frames, and the large square frames (which are this wide, but just as high, so they make nice big paintings). I need to get an image in the right format to test those out, so I don't have an example to show you right now.
This drawing is so cute with those heartfarts. I love how bold and graphic this one is (arty graphic, not sexy graphic... it's quite tastefully sexy, I think), and it has a great composition. The sim realism of the heartfarts just makes it even better.
Jill does spray those hearts constantly when Buck is around, so he was really just drawing what he saw.
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Thank you for the warning about that file. I was looking at those FT updates, but I'll get Lord Darcy's version instead. I was really hoping for something for the FT TV and record player, and I didn't know he had updated his extra slot packages for that. I love having extra slots.
I know. I feel less excited about singing their praises because of it, but the work is really great, so I had to mention it. I haven't checked out all of those creators yet. Maxis-match is always good, even if I'm not really one to match up decorative things all that much (themed bedrooms and stuff like that are not my thing).
How do you know which booty files have bugs in them? Is there a post about it somewhere? I may take you up on that offer, if I get around to looking through all those downloads, so thank you for that.
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I'm afraid that with the TSR files at the booty, it's mostly a trial and error process. These files are cleaned up before they are posted, because they contain a "watermark" that lets TSR catch those "filthy pirates" and ban them.
The problem is that sometimes the cleaned files end up corrupted, and make your game crash. From experience, I know that the Anoeska's FreeTime desk and the Tiki Match Set and Glamour Life Nursery from SimAddict99 are borked.
Unfortunately, I've seen that every time someone posts a warning regarding these bugs, the mods get very angry. You can't make requests or ask for anything related to the TSR files.
You are welcome :). I don't do many "matchy rooms" either (I often forget what goes with what while browsing the catalogue in buy mode, and it's a pain to create collections for that), but sometimes it irks me to see a very nice Maxis sofa whose style has nothing to do with the rest of the game's furniture (like something posh vs something very modern).
My subscription ends in 34 days. So feel free to ask me if you see anything you like in the mean time.