Hey guys! First post here, so bear with me if I step on protocol. I just dove back into Stardew Valley the other day, and I got a hankering put in some custom portraits the freshen things up. There are some really terrific portrait mods floating around, but none were quite what I was looking for, so I decided to make my own. The goals for this project are to redraw each and every portrait in the game (exactly 250, fun fact) with original, high quality digital artwork. Rather than just doing a single drawing per character and editing it slightly to make the additional expressions, I'm going to try to draw each pose and expression from scratch to get the widest range of emotion and performance possible from these lovely characters. I'm aesthetically going for fun and appeal over beauty, drawing a bit more on traditional american and european animation and caricature for the style I'll be going for. For example, I've always thought of Emily as being a bit older than the other potential female spouses, and tried to draw her accordingly, while also trying to be true to her fun-loving hippy personality. So, she's attractive, but a little long-necked and gawky, and just starting to show her age. I also adjusted the neckline of her dress to match her sprite a bit better. Find below everything that I've got finished and in progress below. I'll be updating these sporadically as I go.
Made progress on a few fronts today. I made a point of doing Leah and Robin together, since I wanted to make them look totally distinct from each other, which is a challenge considering they are nearly identical in the original art. I ultimately settled on making Leah's features very soft, and Robin's more angular. I also made Robin visibly older (I mean, she does have two children ostensibly in their twenties). And then I did willy, just cuz I felt like drawing a good beard.
These look very nice! I'll be keeping an eye on this one for updates--not a whole lot of hi-res portraits available for use with Portraiture (which in and of itself is a godsend), so it will be nice to have more!
These are so awesome!! Definitely going to be watching this, I need these in my life, so beautifully varied!
Hey gang, took a little break from plugging away at the Leah portraits (I'll post them when the whole set is done) to clean up and flat the first Abigail portrait. Will share more as they come!
Oh my god I love it. There's just so much personality to them. When you finish them I will ecstatically use them
Thanks for the enthusiasm, guys! I'll try to finish them all up as soon as possible and have something playable for you all, but there are more than 240 portraits for me left to finish, so it's going to be a long road. I'll keep plugging away at them week to week as I find the time between paid work. In the meantime, here are the cleaned and flatted portraits for Leah! Shading to come soon!
These look so great! They really add a lot more character to the... characters than other portrait mods. I love how dynamic they are in each of their portraits! It's like I'm watching childhood cartoons when I look at them. Definitely looking forward to the rest of these! I can't wait to start a 57th new game to get the full experience of them all.
Hey all, just a couple goodies for you all before I call it for the night. ...and a quick screenshot of the portraits running in game:
Took a quick break from Abigail's portrait set to do Marlon! Fortunately he only has one portrait so I got him done in one short sitting!
Abigail is all flatted and ready to shade! Might draw a few secondary characters before I get to that point since it is a longer process.
Hah hah, I don't know about that, but thank you! Took another break from Abigail to crank out Gil by request of a friend. The whole adventurer's guild is here!
Speaking of the Adventurer's Guild... doesn't look half bad, does it? I should probably note here that in all these screenshots, I'm using Poltergeister's 'Slightly Cuter Character Sprites' mod. Just, you know, fyi.
