Strangetown Extras: Jill paintings (and a great cc find)

[strangetomato]

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), 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.


 

Comments

[drx4000.livejournal.com]

Buck<3Jill


Sweet!




DrX

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

so cute, that last one :)

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Neat! My entire evening last night was taken up with finally getting around to reading your story, btw, and it pretty much swallowed me whole until I ran out of parts to read. I'm especially liking the fact that you used a lot of detail from Sim bios and stuff, which is also something I want to do myself (but I'm also deviating from them deliberately here and there and going different ways and generally planning to have way too much fun, if only I can finish my massive custom content cull anytime soon -- I have way too much of that crud). Anyway, I very much enjoyed it, so I went ahead and added you; my Sim stuff will still be on asimmetrical when I get back to posting things, but now it's a community so I can take advantage of the photo storage on this account. :)

[themorganlegacy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the link! That is extremely cool.

And I love the paintings! Oh, Buck. I love him, and I hope Johnny doesn't see him until after he's calmed down. *laughs*

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Wow, that easel superset is really cool. *downloads*

I love those paintings of Jill. :D

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

They look great! I'm glad you found those other canvases, because it really suits the Heartfart picture. The oval one looks sort of silly, but that's probably because I can just imagine it'd be a bitch to do IRL.

[naughtydolphin.livejournal.com]

ooo those are great. and I love the different painting options!

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

I really love that last one. It's how I'd imagine Buck would paint, although I'm not sure why. And it's a nude, not a naked :P because there's such a huge difference...

I also love the oval one, although the frame is pretty weird.

*downloads superset*

[ikichi.livejournal.com]

I've had my eye on those frames for a while, how sweet of you to be my womrat!

I LOVE the nude of Jill and the sheet. I can't wait to see rest.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

These are really cool. I'm downloading them immediately.

I LOVE the last picture, with the heartfarts: so cute! Jill is really adorable.

[fileg.livejournal.com]

The Jill paintings are wonderful!

I crave the horizontal painting for my sims, but alas, the download is marked Freetime required, so no love for Mac users....

[aledstrange.livejournal.com]

<3 Love that easel superset! :D

I've it for a while and i've use a lot with Buck in Remix. I looked for good easel for kids everywhere! was so happy when i found that set! :D Its sooo perfect for the lit' painter and he doesn't need the lit' plastic bench any more rofl!! SO cute!!



I really like the one for the table too. Its awesome. Haven't explored the different canvas yet tho, but already imagine more variety of paintings on the walls, what a dream come true! :D

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing pictures! I really like beyondheroism's style ^^ (my favorite is the last one).

I've had that set for a while, but I haven't had the chance to use it in my game yet. Be careful though, one of Anoeska's files at the Booty is corrupted and will crash your game (the "more slots" for the free time desk, which you really shouldn't get, considering there's Lord Darcy at MATY with an amazing set of "extra slots" for ALL the desks, tables, end tables and even TVs and fridges!).

It's a pity that Anoeska, MsBarrows, Mustke and SimAddict are all FAs. Their "Maxis-match" sets are amazing (and my favorite) and they are all great creators. I actually have a short once in a lifetime subscription at TSR at the moment ( This is actually embarrassing to admit, I almost made a simsecret of this :P), because I wanted to get those files for my game without the bugs found at the Booty files (like many SimAddict's sets). So, in case you need anything from there that's not at the booty yet, feel free to ask! (I don't care if they ban me, for I already got what I wanted and hey, the more use I get out of the sub, the better).

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Yay! These are all really nice! I love the composition of the heart fart painting a lot. It actually reminds me *just a little* of the Sandman art exhibit I saw last week.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are some awesome paintings. :D

Also, I had that tiny easel, but not the two others. Thanks for the find! And thank you, booty. <3

[fafy94.livejournal.com]

Awww that's so sweet! I love Buck and Jill! And the easels are great, too bad they're only for FreeTime and i don't have got this EP ;_;

[(Anonymous)]

I love beyondheroism__'s drawings/paintings, my favorite is the last one, so very clean and stylish. Do you really think that Johnny would freak out because of this? nah! I think he knows better...

[missgan.livejournal.com]

Buck & Jill!! :D:D

The last painting is definitely my favourite, especially the floating hearts. I don't think Johnny would freak out very badly over these, though he'd probably be quite uncomfortable at first, right? I expected them to be more, um, explicit (ZOMG, NAKED JILL!! was the first thing that ran through my mind when I read your last drabble because I still kinda think of her as a young teen), so these are really very gorgeous and classy to me.
Anw, I think it's incredibly sweet that Buck loves Jill so much that she plays such an important role in his art! :)

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

Wow really cool! :D I love the paintings :D