Momo - One Of The Protagonists From My Story Devataru - Formerly The Thri Muse :3

Right! Let’s start this 2018 preview month off with the FULL DETAILS of just WHAT #LEARNUARY is, and WHY we’re doing it! As you know, I’M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT SHARING CREATIVE SKILLS ONLINE FOR FREE, and as such I want to begin a movement where for 31 days each year we all FILL THE INTERNET with accessible, useful, empowering FREE art education. Over the past few years I’ve seen many of the best creative teaching resources being LOCKED AWAY BEHIND PAYWALLS, which is excluding millions of artists from being able to access quality teaching online. At the same time, the landscape of how people consume the web has changed, with many spending the majority of their time online on social media sites, which have VERY FEW great resources for creative learning. I want to change that, by making FREE bite-sized, social-media-friendly, high quality online creative learning FOR EVERYONE, created BY EVERYONE, available FOREVER. No matter what type of or art or creativity you enjoy, I’m hoping you’ll join me in bringing a wealth of learning to social media this January! “Paywalls DOWN, skills UP!” See the image above for a handy tutorial on how YOU can get involved, and I’ll be showing you what WE’RE going to be doing for #LEARNUARY later today! Lorenzo!

Wooooo!! Look at those adorable buildings and animation!! :O 

Dev Update 2

Welcome to our December edition of the Kingdoms and Castles dev log. Michael and I have been hard at work on all kinds of stuff.

Probably should mention we prepped and launched our crowd funding campaign on Fig.co around the end of November and we’re at 480% funded as of right now. Thanks to all our backers and the fig folks, it’s been awesome and we’re so excited people are digging the game.

We also got greenlit on Steam that same week, so Kingdoms and Castles will definitely be coming to Steam!

Now onto more gameplay side stuff, here’s what I’ve (Pete) been up to:

Siege Ogre - Once the vikings discover you’ve got a castle that can fend off their ground troops, they’ll send invading parties with the siege ogre! It arrives by boat, lumbers over to your castles and tries to take down the walls.

Arrow Tower - These towers now shoot arrows at invaders. Their range increases the higher up on a tower they are placed.

Ballista Tower - Now that the vikings have a siege ogre, you’ll need something to help defend, so we’ve introduced the ballista. It’s a giant crossbow manned by four people and packs the punch needed to deal with siege ogres.

Here’s all three of them coming together in a little weapons test:

Villager Names, Thoughts, and Skills - Villagers can have names now, and we’ll be adding those who funded the fig campaign at the “Noble Noble” into the name pool. Villagers also have little thoughts which sometimes respond to what’s happened or what you’ve done, but other times are whatever is on their mind. They also gain skill at what they do over time:

Tavern - Got some community help from our discord making the tavern. Note the little people enjoying themselves outside!

Road re-do - Roads now include sign posts on three and four way intersctions, and fences on straights and curves. Also ended up changing the tavern roof color as it was too similar to our large houses:

Weather effects - Took another pass on our lightning, rain, and clouds during storms:

Dynamic Music - We’re now working with Aether on music for the game, and implemented a first pass dynamic music system where the music reflects the complexity of your town:

And now for Michael:

Hello everyone! 

This month I’ve been putting together a shiny new resource system. Now, resources such as wood, stone, wheat, and apples have a physical representation in the world. The new system has been hooked into all the existing resource creators (quarries, foresters, fields, and orchards) and well as the new stockpile building. I’ve also extended the concept of constructing buildings by adding Builder jobs. It’s the job of the builders to collect the resources necessary to construct their buildings.

The following GIF gives show a lot of the new resource system features at once, minus Builders fetching resources. You can see: Stacks of wood and stone resources, wheat being picked up and carried to the keep, and stockpile workers collecting stone from the quarry and dropping it off at the Stockpile.

Fun fact: If a quarry or foresters’ production stack is not regularly retrieved by stockpile workers, production will get backed up and halted!

Also, Last month I wrote a destruction effect for buildings that create a spreadable crack-like effect over the faces of buildings. You can see it being used in Pete’s Ogre vs Tower GIF above. Here is a close-up overly exaggerated example of the tech:

That’s all for now, until next time!

A watercolor painting after a long long time 🙇 not much time for myself nowadays. Managed to do this today but couldn't have done it without @poetshri looking after our babychu 😍 #watercolor #aquarelle #lotus #water #nature #print #beauty #green #flower #red #pink #artistmichi #pond #crystal #lotuspond #color #biology #botany #love #inspiration #artaday #artistoninsta #paint #baby #paintermom #mom

First artwork of the year 😳 tried to do an illustration for children's book using watercolors, pen and ink this time instead of doing it digitally 😅 stay tuned I'm going to post behind the scenes of this one 🌸 #illustration #watercolor #art #firstart #2018 #frog #childrensbook #children #cute #appealing #love #beauty #pond #rock #micron #ink #water #newyear

I’m creating the world’s first true ENCYCLOPEDIA of drawing tutorials under the hashtag #howtoTHINKwhenyouDRAW, all of which is FREE for EVERYONE, FOREVER - you can see EVERY TUTORIAL on  OUR MASSIVE INSTAGRAM HERE and OUR GIANT TWITTER HERE! PLUS! CLICK HERE for 300 EXTRA FREE TUTORIALS! Lorenzo!

Awww.. I love these cute little fellas :3

Cactus Island Musicians

Ah such mesmerising works! New blog here by the way :) 

Alexander-Rommel  -  https://society6.com/alexrommel  -  https://www.facebook.com/aerroscape

woah fantastic! The hunter is deadly cool

Hunting down the last mermaids.

A painting study that took a very elaborate turn. It’s my first time fitting so many characters in a single composition. The second image you see is how the model posed, versus what I managed to finish painting during the class. I worked on the background between yesterday and today. I still need to work on my textures a little bit but I am overall satisfied with the result.

The process gif skips soooo many steps though lol. I swear I reworked each mermaid like three times, I just couldn’t get their faces to look right no matter how much I tried!

As I was working on this piece I was thinking about fishermen or coastal cities with archaic customs like whaling, or even having to fish illegally because of their dire living conditions. it’s very sad that us, humans, are fishing so many species to extinction because of deeply-rooted traditions, or sheer desperation to keep ourselves and our families alive. It’s a very tough world out there, with no easy solutions in sight.

Yess! Finally I've come around to create Bitto! 😍 my OC from Bitto Rabbit and the Carrots.. Stay tuned for the story 🐰 #watercolor #bitto #art #illustration #sketch #rabbit #rabbitsofinstagram #book #children #white #carrot #crop #fox #vixen #jungle #farm #happy #cute #kuku #funny #whimsyillos #whimsical #artistmichi #artistOnInsta #followme #artoftheday #artistic_support #artclub4u

I wanted to join in on this year's #inktober but fell ill right when i finished a few and don't think I'll be able to finish.. Soo I'll just leave this one and the next few inked sketches here.. This fellow is an ancient mage, he's so ancient that he has plants growing from his beard #inktober2017 #old #wizard #tree #beard #mage #ink #pen #instagood