Vella the Latias
Terrarian
To think that even I played it once upon a time; it brings some memories to me too!
That's niceQuick Monthly Art Batch
This month I focussed on relaxing for a bit, not really done much besides Age of Empires 4 and the occasional Terraria and Cave Story
I also got a new phone, but I disliked the huge size, so I went searching accross the internet for a phone of equall size as mine (5.3 inch), and eventually finally found one, yay.
I didn't stress myself to make something (well, except the Cave Story one), so the drawings are short this time around as well, let's get them done first.
--Artworks--
Lil Birthday art of @Corenality's ninja bunny, I really liked her design
The perspective turned out nice in this one too.
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On DeviantArt, my Alraune had become the only OC's where I keep getting favorites from (I wonder why)
So, I decided to give them a little fanservice with another plant
I've also come up with a new name for my Alraune: Althaea
This way, she still has the "Al-" part of alraune, but now it also refers to a pink flower too.
Plus, the name sounds cooler as a boss, which was also part of her inspiration.
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I also went experimental again and gave Nageru another curvy redesign, including fishnets:
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It is pretty fun to deviate from my normal character guidelines and try out something new for a change.
Not sure if it'll stick, cause if I keep doing it, then it might accidently become the new norm.
I don't think that's necessarly a bad thing, personally, I think one should stick to drawing what they like to do.
Aand, I think I should leave it here, the drawing that is.
For a month or so, my right arm starts to feel a bit...weary.
I think it's partially due to the stress, I'm also using it for a lot of things. (And using a giant phone with one hand didn't help).
But it doesn't help when I hear stories of people pushing themselves too hard and permanently hurting their arm or hand in the process, and that leaves myself a bit worried...
So I think I should put a limit on stuff like drawing and phone activities for now.
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Despite that, As far as my overall health and stomach goes, that is at least slowly restoring...slowly, I should definitely keep it up for now.
Luckily my vacation is starting tomorrow, so I'll have all the time for myself to relax again.
I'll definitely take a break from the internet too, as that has also become a, rather busy, daily activity.
So, at least for now, have a lil dryad to round up the batch:
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See you next month!
EDIT: And thank you all!
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Hey @ppowersteef , I love your art so much, it’s some of the best that we as a community have ever gotten! I even found lots of your art on Reddit! You’re one of the greatest Terraria fanartists to exist!Quick Monthly Art Batch
This month I focussed on relaxing for a bit, not really done much besides Age of Empires 4 and the occasional Terraria and Cave Story
I also got a new phone, but I disliked the huge size, so I went searching accross the internet for a phone of equall size as mine (5.3 inch), and eventually finally found one, yay.
I didn't stress myself to make something (well, except the Cave Story one), so the drawings are short this time around as well, let's get them done first.
--Artworks--
Lil Birthday art of @Corenality's ninja bunny, I really liked her design
The perspective turned out nice in this one too.
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On DeviantArt, my Alraune had become the only OC's where I keep getting favorites from (I wonder why)
So, I decided to give them a little fanservice with another plant
I've also come up with a new name for my Alraune: Althaea
This way, she still has the "Al-" part of alraune, but now it also refers to a pink flower too.
Plus, the name sounds cooler as a boss, which was also part of her inspiration.
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I also went experimental again and gave Nageru another curvy redesign, including fishnets:
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It is pretty fun to deviate from my normal character guidelines and try out something new for a change.
Not sure if it'll stick, cause if I keep doing it, then it might accidently become the new norm.
I don't think that's necessarly a bad thing, personally, I think one should stick to drawing what they like to do.
Aand, I think I should leave it here, the drawing that is.
For a month or so, my right arm starts to feel a bit...weary.
I think it's partially due to the stress, I'm also using it for a lot of things. (And using a giant phone with one hand didn't help).
But it doesn't help when I hear stories of people pushing themselves too hard and permanently hurting their arm or hand in the process, and that leaves myself a bit worried...
So I think I should put a limit on stuff like drawing and phone activities for now.
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Despite that, As far as my overall health and stomach goes, that is at least slowly restoring...slowly, I should definitely keep it up for now.
Luckily my vacation is starting tomorrow, so I'll have all the time for myself to relax again.
I'll definitely take a break from the internet too, as that has also become a, rather busy, daily activity.
So, at least for now, have a lil dryad to round up the batch:
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See you next month!
EDIT: And thank you all!
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Wow, that feels very surprising to hear!Hey @ppowersteef , I love your art so much, it’s some of the best that we as a community have ever gotten! I even found lots of your art on Reddit! You’re one of the greatest Terraria fanartists to exist!
You are EXTREMELY welcome!!!Wow, that feels very surprising to hear!
Even nowadays, I still look up to artists that I met on the forums, or have left their mark of fanart as well. But hearing this makes my day already! Thank you!!
We are approaching Alternate History levels of technological advancement and lore derailment quite fast.A certain hero villager from the civ Jeanne d'arc can appearantly wear a handcannon gun at her final level:
My god do these arts look so freaking beautiful, plus this game you’re creating looks pretty good! I seriously enjoy all the art you create and put out for us for display!Another month has passed, and so it's time for another Monthly Art Batch!
This month I've been playing Xenoblade: Future Redeemed, and lots of AoE4, both games are awesome.
Have a done a lot? Well, I thought no, but actually more than I thought, looking back to it.
So let's get to it.
Alpha has already turned 2 last week! Man, I remember the android madness
Given her a slight redesign because I've been in a huuuuuge Xenoblade Chronicles Vibe. I think this may expand beyond her as well.
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And a lil Helena doodle for Miltvala, sporting her new outfit:
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Aaaaand that was all when it comes to drawing. That went quick.
For Gamedev however...
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I've been going back to Shepherd to add in several new features, including:
- new effects
- Been able to sell sheep
- More Quality of Life features to make it easier, like a Casual Mode, autofire, and turning off the firing sound.
- The Dog as a playable Player 2
- more balancing between items, sheeps, enemies and prices.
- remapped catalog buttons.
- a new highscore system at the end of week 3
- Improved descriptions.
- Bugfixes
And I've given it a release on the Pico-8 BBS, where it was well recieved there. Almost as good as Fallen Star.
My favorite part was that there was a returning player that played the game with his daughter every day for like a week, I like to have given them that enjoyment.
Since then, I've been working with it until the amount of code was at it's limit.
I had a lot of fun and I'm glad with the state the game is now, much better than it was before.
And since then, I've been starting on a new Pico-8 project too, more about that in the next month.
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Glad to be able to draw again. But I know that I shouldn't be pushing it too much.
So, some bigger things that I do want to do have to be put into a halt for the time been. (As if gamedev isn't already big enough)
Health wise...I've been making slow progress, not as bad as it used to be, but with the winter period coming, it's asking for a lot.
Still, I'm staying positive on this, and want to work on getting better the next day.
AAAAAaaaaaand, that's all for now. Have some random doodles that came in mind while I was writing this out, to fill a bit of the doodle void:
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Looking fantastic as usual man! Keep it up!One day left of november, although I'm already eating nuts.
Age of Empires 4 has gotten it's big DLC release, and I've been playing it a lot. lol
Since last week, I've been starting a sort of diët. to help recovering my health.
And surprisingly, it works better than I expected! I'm feeling much more fit again!
Not in a big drawing state yet, mostly due to recent games, but still much better than before!
Hoping to keep this pace up for the next 3 months!
So, without further ado, some artssss:
A little drawing of the Cast of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, These are probably one of my favorite RPG casts for how much of an OC appearance they have:
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A Shonen Ponytail protagonist who has a Sword as a Sword Sheath to have another Sword.
An agile Light Disc Catgirl that also plays a flute for the departed, but has only 3 months to live herself.
A Shark Boy (not actual shark) that uses his heavy sword as a shield...and a turret.
A Smol girl with superstrength, that uses a mega hammer. Feels uncertain to be in a group, so she copies others.
A girl with wings on her head that uses a sniper to heal, that has a cute appearance and a very sassy personality
And a boy that uses a bunch of flying illusion cards that can transform into birds.
No, these are not OC's, this is just Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Silvyne reached her (checks date...) 8th birthday!!!
She wanted to show you her pillow collection.
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Some more doodles of character designs that I had in mind:
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The last character was actually a Chimera girl that went dubbed as the "Ultimate OC" during a Gartic Phone game from last year.
(Back from May 2022 already? wow...wait, this month has also already passed! AAAAAAA )Drawings & Paintings - ppower arts
Also, it's been a while since I did one of these huh? Here's the collection of gift arts I've done in the past 1,5 years: Also updating the OP with it.forums.terraria.org
Now I've made it into an actual character, with a pretty simple name: "X"
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And a few doodles out of context before my Game additiction kicks in again.
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Even poor Silvyne got her Birthday skipped for this:
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I've also bought Super Mario Bros Wonder and Super Mario Odyssey (I'm late with the latter).
Though I like to build up to playing them with playing the previous 3D entries first, it's been a while since I've been interested in a Mario game.
Interestingly, Mario is like the only franchise that I've played a lot as a kid, but since I started exploring other Nintendo titles, I havn't really been interested into going back to Mario, viewing them as just a kids game.
And, to be fair, Mario also wasn't really going interesting last decade. The last games I've played were 3D All Stars and some classics on NSO, Which was great, but it felt more like reminiscing about a past long ago.
But this year...wow, now I've been more excited for Mario games than ever.
You get Mario Wonder, one that switched up the Mario formula a lot and looks newer than the 'new' title games.
You get Super Mario RPG, which is probably one of the most Faithful Mario remakes Nintendo has every done. Which just feels completely unheard of nowadays!
And there's even more coming with Paper Mario: TTYD! That's probably one I'm going to be the most excited for! I've played it a long time ago but never finished it!
That excitement got me interest in buying Odyssey as well. Looking forward for playing that when the time comes.
I've also reached a 10 year anniversary of both Terraria and Game development this year! Wooooooo!!!
I've been wanting to make a compilation for both archievments I've done in the past...but I'll need to make time free for that, and that might get tricky with December now following up...ooops.
I'll try what I can manage, but no promises
(At this point this art thread's monthly updates has more content than on any other site if I were to move on...lol. Guess that means I'm up for another year here of monthly posts.)
And that's all I wanted to say, have a great Winter month and Christmas!
No ending doodle this time, so here's Alpha fulfilling that role instead by trying to draw my OC's or something:
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Nice art! I’ve been a huge fan of Xenoblade Chronicles and their character design! It’s of the best Nintendo games ever made.One day left of november, although I'm already eating nuts.
Age of Empires 4 has gotten it's big DLC release, and I've been playing it a lot. lol
Since last week, I've been starting a sort of diët. to help recovering my health.
And surprisingly, it works better than I expected! I'm feeling much more fit again!
Not in a big drawing state yet, mostly due to recent games, but still much better than before!
Hoping to keep this pace up for the next 3 months!
So, without further ado, some artssss:
A little drawing of the Cast of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, These are probably one of my favorite RPG casts for how much of an OC appearance they have:
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A Shonen Ponytail protagonist who has a Sword as a Sword Sheath to have another Sword.
An agile Light Disc Catgirl that also plays a flute for the departed, but has only 3 months to live herself.
A Shark Boy (not actual shark) that uses his heavy sword as a shield...and a turret.
A Smol girl with superstrength, that uses a mega hammer. Feels uncertain to be in a group, so she copies others.
A girl with wings on her head that uses a sniper to heal, that has a cute appearance and a very sassy personality
And a boy that uses a bunch of flying illusion cards that can transform into birds.
No, these are not OC's, this is just Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Silvyne reached her (checks date...) 8th birthday!!!
She wanted to show you her pillow collection.
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Some more doodles of character designs that I had in mind:
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The last character was actually a Chimera girl that went dubbed as the "Ultimate OC" during a Gartic Phone game from last year.
(Back from May 2022 already? wow...wait, this month has also already passed! AAAAAAA )Drawings & Paintings - ppower arts
Also, it's been a while since I did one of these huh? Here's the collection of gift arts I've done in the past 1,5 years: Also updating the OP with it.forums.terraria.org
Now I've made it into an actual character, with a pretty simple name: "X"
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And a few doodles out of context before my Game additiction kicks in again.
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Even poor Silvyne got her Birthday skipped for this:
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I've also bought Super Mario Bros Wonder and Super Mario Odyssey (I'm late with the latter).
Though I like to build up to playing them with playing the previous 3D entries first, it's been a while since I've been interested in a Mario game.
Interestingly, Mario is like the only franchise that I've played a lot as a kid, but since I started exploring other Nintendo titles, I havn't really been interested into going back to Mario, viewing them as just a kids game.
And, to be fair, Mario also wasn't really going interesting last decade. The last games I've played were 3D All Stars and some classics on NSO, Which was great, but it felt more like reminiscing about a past long ago.
But this year...wow, now I've been more excited for Mario games than ever.
You get Mario Wonder, one that switched up the Mario formula a lot and looks newer than the 'new' title games.
You get Super Mario RPG, which is probably one of the most Faithful Mario remakes Nintendo has every done. Which just feels completely unheard of nowadays!
And there's even more coming with Paper Mario: TTYD! That's probably one I'm going to be the most excited for! I've played it a long time ago but never finished it!
That excitement got me interest in buying Odyssey as well. Looking forward for playing that when the time comes.
I've also reached a 10 year anniversary of both Terraria and Game development this year! Wooooooo!!!
I've been wanting to make a compilation for both archievments I've done in the past...but I'll need to make time free for that, and that might get tricky with December now following up...ooops.
I'll try what I can manage, but no promises
(At this point this art thread's monthly updates has more content than on any other site if I were to move on...lol. Guess that means I'm up for another year here of monthly posts.)
And that's all I wanted to say, have a great Winter month and Christmas!
No ending doodle this time, so here's Alpha fulfilling that role instead by trying to draw my OC's or something:
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Thank you! I'll keep going strong!Looking fantastic as usual man! Keep it up!
I can definitely agree, it feels almost surreal it's actually a Nintendo game.Nice art! I’ve been a huge fan of Xenoblade Chronicles and their character design! It’s of the best Nintendo games ever made.
Just throwing my 2 cents here, feel free to ignore them;
Fire Emblem is another great Nintendo video game franchise and it’s my favorite one. The characters in the games are lively, well-written, and extremely charming. The turn based combat system in these games are pretty good too.Thank you! I'll keep going strong!
I can definitely agree, it feels almost surreal it's actually a Nintendo game.
I've been playing the entire trilogy and their DLC stories the past 2 years, and only just a month ago finished Future Redeemed. I can say it's probably my favorite series of all time now.
Now I'm kinda just...thinking what to do next. I've suddenly a lot of free time that it feels unusual
But yeah, Mario, AoE4 and the diët will keep me busy enough for now.
This is an interesting take, considering Age of Empires is about building an economy and defending a siege or sieging opponents, it's pretty on topic.Just throwing my 2 cents here, feel free to ignore them;
The northwest side seems to be a very accessible weakpoint. The trees beyond the wall would be a good rendezvous point for a small invading force.
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They would be hidden by the trees, and almost invisible to the towers once at the wall, and the actual tower itself is such a distance from the wall, it too lacks a good vantage point to prevent this attack.
What this leads to is a very possible backdoor attack, by climbing that wall they've already arrived at the keep, and need only avoid the interior troops and Defenses.
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Immediately behind the keep would be an excellent place to hide. Perhaps to distribute few troops to open gates from the inside, and of course once the gates are opened, this allows entry for the main invading force.
Now I know this is for a game, and I know you probabky didn't want anybody to try and pick it apart like this. But I'm currently in the city building stages of my book and think it's fun to plan sieges on settlements I see. Hope you don't mind!
Several of my OC's are actually inspired by Fire Emblem. Namely Steef (Eliwood/Roy) and Silvyne (Isadora). They're great games and values their characters a lot. Which makes the intended/hardcore playthroughs quite heartbreaking . I personally like the GBA and SNES series mostFire Emblem is another great Nintendo video game franchise and it’s my favorite one. The characters in the games are lively, well-written, and extremely charming. The turn based combat system in these games are pretty good too.
It is.Since I left Twixtter last year, I was wondering if it was the right call.