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   americanakita

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   12 October 2023, 6:10PM

   You are so fast!! I've been slowly drawing portraits myself but I'm a little lazy and slow, your portraits look great! Super native to the game, I love it. Please upload!!
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      Arknir27

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      12 October 2023, 7:37PM

      Aww thank you, americanakita!! Your pink ghost mod helped me understand how to mod this game, so thank so much you for that.
      
      I also love doing pixel art, especially since i come from Stardew Valley. One issue I realize I will encounter is that I can't patch certain parts of the images I am editing, so if I want to change one character's sprites, it will overwrite everyone else's too. Unless I make a megapack of my art, people can only use one of my npc edits one at a time.
      
      But I'll cross that bridge when I get to it haha! I love your work so far and excited to see more mods for this game!
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      americanakita

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      12 October 2023, 8:12PM

      Yeah, it's a problem for me too. I was planning to just release full packs of one style of portrait all at once myself. I started trying to draw anime style portraits, but it's tough and I'm still debating on how to design them just because the face sprites are pulled oddly (especially with Cleo) where it's kind of restricting on how you can draw them exactly.
      
      The face must fit in Cleo's face sprite specifically to look natural so you can't exactly make their faces much bigger (like if you want to draw massive eyes.) I'm still testing how big I can get away with for their eyes though before they extend too far outside of Cleo's portrait sprites. Debating on just not doing pixel sprites too and just drawing normally with a normal brush to see if it looks okay - pixel art is hard.
      
      Stardew Valley was pretty unique with how they did sprite sheets and how open it was to modding, it's very typical for most game devs to stick their sprites on one sheet like this and make it a challenge for you!!
      
      

      
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      Arknir27

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      12 October 2023, 11:48PM

      Omg I love your art style! Im so hyped to see them!
      
      And yeah I get what you mean by how the face pulls. All of the npc body/clothes bases and faces are their own unique sizes and positioned somewhat randomly. It's also hard to gauge where the expressions of each face meet the neck when making new proportions for the body. I have to save my game and continuously cycle through their expressions to make sure the head and body look aligned ;(