Strangetown extras: Double dose of Beau spoilers

[strangetomato]

I've been picking away at the next update (Yeah momentum!), and I'm seriously tempted to run in here and show off every little thing before I post it. I'm not going to do that, but it's so tempting when there are cute sims doing ridiculous things. I am, however, going to share a couple of things I made in Photoshop for the chapter, both involving Beau. If you'd rather wait to see it in the chapter, just ignore this.






First, a tee for Beau:



This is the main reason I even made those shirts. The project was called "Beau's pink tee" in my project folder.

This is when he meets Tank. You can just imagine what Tank's thinking, right?

Then there's this little "masterpiece":




Lucy will be painting this in the art studio.

That would be Beau posing as St. Sebastian, for obvious symbolic reasons. (Anything longer than it is wide is a phallus in Art History, don't you know.)

Slightly religious for my sim world, but it's hard to conceive of an art class without some religious imagery. Take Renaissance art, for example. I've always loved saint imagery too, and I did a photo project based on it when I was in art school (like this, using friends as family posed as modern-day interpretations of iconic saints).






 

Comments

Playing sims right now (What else?)

[onlycreated4st.livejournal.com]

I was afraid this would ruin the story for me, but you've given just enough for me to dread this wait for the next chapter...once again. Ahhh, I love art with symbols and meaning behind it. Also, if you're not too busy to answer this one day...how did you learn Simlish? lol ! I used to think that the "words" in the game were just crazy symbols until I read your works/entries!

Re: Playing sims right now (What else?)

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

There's this simlish downloadable font somewhere.

Re: Playing sims right now (What else?)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it doesn't spoil anything, really. Just the novelty of seeing these things for the first time. You don't get any details.

I'm pretty excited about the next chapter, so I'm hoping the wait will be a short one.

Like xel_squirgle_ox said, I downloaded a Simlish font, which just converts your text to an interpretation of Simlish. Someone else did all the real work, so I must thank them for it.

Unfortunately, the only one I could find to link you to right now is this handwritten one:

http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=312270

There were others at MTS2, but they're not turning up in my search right now.