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

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I remeber that, I wasn't able to figure out the last word! xD

AND SO YOU SHPOULD. It's really some of the best CC I've seen in a while- I like Maxis Match Clothing, but I was always "eh" about hair- until I discovered her (and Neena Needles at GoS). It's really amazing CC, and I love it to death.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess you're not a nerd, then. :P

I agree. Those Maxis-match textures by Neena (which Phobia uses too) are a very good match, and much better than most official EAxis stuff these days, which doesn't even match, and looks like poo. They pick really nice meshes too. They're usually meshes I really loved anyway, like the Raon ones, but didn't use because of the shiny textures.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I completely agree, the textures are just too amazing. The ONLY gripe I have is that the red is a bit too "red", and not orangey like the Rissa one which I have grown to love. Maxis cannot make up their mind on what red they want, so I understand, and I laughed when you said they looked like poo. And yes, the meshes are really, really amazing- Raon's textures are a bit shiny, so I am so glad she chose these. I especially love the short one with the headband and the ponytail. (And the male one, I have much love for that hair.)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

The red is really bold, I agree, bit I think Phobia has been including two options, so one is less vibrant. I don't mind the brighter red on some sims, as long as it isn't burgundy.

I'm actually not really a fan of Rissa's red. It seems a little brown to me. I just never seem to end up using those hairs on redheads.

(Oh, and I love your alien in your icon. He has a cute Ben Long nose.)

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too- I use the lighter one on my Sims. The bold red works better with S4 Sims, or Sims with darker skin tones.

Really? I love it to death.

Thanks! His name is Xenophilius, he's Karna's son. *points to icon* For some reason he and Xander Pyle ended up as clones of their respective fathers, which saddened me. I wanted some alien genes!

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I meant Should*, GAH.