I'm a digital artist, adept with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, SAI, Clip Studio, and Procreate. Photoshop is where I'm most comfortable. My first version of Photoshop was Photoshop Elements 2014 in which I spent hours and hours making graphics, edits, and attempts at drawing. I really started drawing in 2017 when I got a little Huion 420 graphics tablet and a freeware drawing program, FireAlpaca. I now use a Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet (with Mario stickers on it), Paint Tool SAI, Adobe Photoshop CC 2020, and Clip Studio Paint. I also dabble with Procreate for iPad.
I love making .gifs, color correcting, and compositing. Exhilarating stuff, I know.
James Ironwood from RWBYMy edit of James Ironwood from RWBY, showing his cybernetic body.
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You heard right, I'm a real life gamer girl. UwU. But really, I love games. I'm kind of a Nintendo fanboy, to my own dismay, but I also enjoy cozy games.
Nintendo
Mario
Mario is one of my favorite things. I have played almost every mainline Mario game and many, many spinoffs. My favorites include Super Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario 64, Super Mario World, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 8, Super Princess Peach, Super Mario 3D World, and Super Mario Oddysey. I also collect Mario figures, merchandise, and especially PLUSHIES. I have a lot of Mario plushies. My favorite Mario characters are Mario, Peach, Luigi, Daisy, and Rosalina. My unpopular opinion is that I think Mario (the character) is overhated and underrated.
Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is a franchise very close to my heart. I have also played almost every Zelda game, excluding only the Oracle games, the Satellaview games, and Tri-Force Heroes. I even played the horrible Philip's CDi games. My favorite Zelda titles include The Minish Cap, Skyward Sword, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Breath of the Wild. The Four Swords manga is also very special to me.
Pokemon
I really like Pokemon! I mostly played the older games and my favorite is generation 3 and the generation 2 remakes. I did really enjoy Pokemon Sword and Shield for the Switch, too. I always pick the Fire type starter, my favorite being Blaziken, but that may change in the upcoming Scarlet and Violet games because that duck is SO CUTE. Some of my favorite Pokemon characters include Red, Green/Blue Oak, Hibiki/Ethan/Gold, Silver, Kris, Lyra, Archie, Maxie, Steven, May, Leon, Raihan, Piers, and Marnie. My favorite Pokemon type is ground and my favorite Pokemon are Dugtrio, Sneasel, Togekiss, Beautifly, Blaziken, Lopunny, Quagsire, and Scorbunny.
Rhythm Heaven
Rhythm Heaven is one of my favorite things ever. This series has adorable art, wonderful music, and fun gameplay. It definitely gave me a way better sense of Rhythm, and I'm just addicted overall. I would definitely sell my soul to Nintendo for another RH game.
Other Games
I LOVE Stardew Valley. I really admire ConcernedApe, the creator, who made the game singlehandedly as a passion project for years. It has all original art, a beautiful original score, tons of great characters, multifaceted stories, varied gameplay... it really is incredible. I have bought it on multiple platforms because it's just so good. My favorite character is Shane, he is my farm husband. I really appreciate that ConcernedApe was able to tackle heavy themes in the middle of a seemingly lighthearted game.
Another game series I absolutely adore is Ace Attorney, a series of visual novel games about lawyers that began in 2001. I have no idea why, but I am enchanted by this series. In the first trilogy, you play as rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright alongside a cast of lovable and quirky characters who have mostly seemingly murdered someone, have been murdered, or have been accused of murdering someone.
My favorite AA character is Maya Fey, a spirit medium in training and Ace Assistant to Phoenix Wright. I adore her personality and her story arc never fails to amaze me and also destroy me emotionally.
Finally, The Sims. I play The Sims 3 most often, but I also love love Sims 2. I have played Sims 4 on-and-off since release, and while the previous Sims titles were far from perfect, I think The Sims 4 is farthest from perfect. I'm not a fan of the art style, the game is fundamentally broken in so many ways, the team keeps shrinking and shrinking to the point where the programmers and animators are seemingly an endangered species, it plays like a milennial simulator with no meaningful gameplay, the "emotion system" strips all originality and uniqueness from individual Sims... I could go on. I don't blame The Sims team for this, I blame EA. The Sims 4 started out barebones and broken, and with every pack it feels more hollow without fixing the fundamental problems.
All that being said... I modded the hell out of my game and I have had a legacy challenge going since 2020 including such drama as celebrities, secret incest, aliens, triplets, clones, world domination, and more. I'm very attached to that family.
I've always really enjoyed the lore hidden throughout the Sims franchise, the different stories with premade Sims and the lore attached to worlds and objects. I love that The Sims 3 is a prequel to the Sims 1&2. I love the wacky parts like aliens and ghosts, and I love the domestic parts like cooking and hiring a maid. And sleeping with the maid. (〃▽〃)
