Adorable Baby Creatures

A notebook for my working horror setting & interactive webpage, ABC Pet Shop

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ABCPS Pinned Post 📂

ToDo

🔲 Gather the rest of my reference images; Dump into Miro; Organize -- 2 hours

🔲 Iterate on ABCPS designs -- several sessions, 1 hour each

🔲 Do LPS etc. reference studies, figure out what elements I want to -> abcps -- several sessions, 1hr each

🔲 Draw pets -- several sessions, 1 hr each

🔲 Different poses

🔲 Gif versions

🔲 Money why-gaming: Maybe charge like adoptables & donate part/all of revenue? -- chew on it over time, then 1 hr finalizing

🔲 Learn how to make an interactive webpage w visual clickables

🔲 Miro mock-up first -- add assets to the mock-up to move around by mouse

🔲 At the same time, write the scaffolding for ABCPS on tomf

🔲 When I have enough base code AND I'm happy with the asset arrangement, THEN I can transfer onto tomfoolery/abcpetshop

🔲 Draw clickable assets -- 1 hr each

🔲 Cage doors

🔲 Rap sheets for prospectives

🔲 Alumni book

🔲 Service bell

🔲 Build A Bear tub, etc

NOTE TO SELF: Hard limit of an hour per iteration, for reps' sake. Can reiterate & add detail for an hour at a time in future sessions. Get the basic shapes down, figure out a layout you're permanently happy with. THEN you can go back and spend time prettifying.

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Desk assets

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Pet book on its own

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Register assets

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Desk assets

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placeholder images for fcc landing page

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First carrier

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My friend Koi in LPS style, 5/28/24

Traced from a photo of a littlest pet shop kitten

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Praying mantis, LPS-style, in 2 parts, 5/27/24

Traced from this 3D model by Danderduck

I had a lot of fun painting tonight. Lotta firsts with this one! I'm getting more comfortble with holding the pen farther away, as opposed to the near-tip writing hold. Painted with the tablet up. I've tried that before, but it was really comfortable. Tonight, combining art-hold with up-tablet actually resulted in some of the most comfotable arting I've ever had! We've cracked it, babes.

I tried some lighting stuff here. I like what I accomplished, but we can definitely do better. Would love to take another crack at this later, after I've larned more :)

Also, I am definitely ordering a 3D print of this mantis sometime.

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5/24

First tracing: Koala

I enjoy the paint-overflowing-lines look

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5/24

Starting work in earnest! Last night I did concept sketches for the layout of the store and container designs. As always, got a few new ideas from the sketching process.

Today I'm going to start working on the actual pets by tracing some of the irl toys that inspire ABC Petshop. When I'm comfortable, I'll transition to my own drawing, play with styles and designs :)

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4/4-6/24

Made Miro board

Added lots of reference photos: Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Littlest Pet Shop. Have plans to collect Barbie Dreamhouse & wonky architecture examples & add them to the board later

Indirect: Working on freecodecamp to get back into learning web dev

4/7/24

Made blog: working notebook

- Doubles as a writing lab experiment

Made pinned post

Added detailed ToDo list to pinned