KATARINA KARSBERG @katarina-karsberg - Tumblr Blog

Building the landscape surrounding the inn, in Tiled😍

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Looking around my inn :) Time to get started on the exterior/landscape...

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Some exports from building the inn in Tiled...

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My character AppleHeart

I thought I could show how she looked from when I started drawing her back in 2023, and how she ended up being my first pixel art character!

I was sketching in my "usual style" - but something about this random character seemed fun and intriguing to me - so I kept on drawing her for fun.

I drew her playing a sort of lute that had an apple shape, and something about all the apples made me include maggots in my drawings of her.

AppleHeart is a traveling bard who plays for maggots and worms, but she takes on paid performances as well - in taverns and inns as she makes her way through a sort of medieval landscape...

(Initially AppleHeart had a halo, but I am skipping that, because of simplicity when animating her... for now!)

Something about this character made me want to draw her as pixel art - and a few environment items to go with her.

I put everything together in Tiled, and it was so enjoyable that I just kept on building her world - drawing more and more items and environment pieces for it.

I made my first 8 way walk animation, and now I am just exploring this world and hoping to make a super tiny playable game/story/something out of this! For myself, for fun.

I will use this place to post updates about this ..project :)

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Making some inventory stuff for my character :)

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Some more stuff for the inn. No people or creatures to interact with, though...

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I am working on a super small game mockup or animated scene, and here is some art I've made for it.

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Still out walking with her talisman

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Fin and Talisman walking in the woods...

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More spooky house concept sketching for Marian's story!

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Underwater Struggle

Sketch for my WIP comic.

I'm making a tarot deck with my character Marian in it. I need to get back to drawing these, because it's so much fun!

I've made 17 cards so far, I think? All from the Major Arcana. The "story" is Marian out walking in a forest that is kind of suburban, so there is graffiti and other signs of people in these woods... And signs of other kinds as well - of fairies, fauns...