[saraheellison]

I’m starting to plan out which villagers I want on my island, because I’ve heard that you need one of each personality to get all the diy cards. I wanted to be able to see all the villagers of each personality type to make my decisions, and to that effort I made cards for each personality. These are the female villagers!

[saraheellison]

I’m starting to plan out which villagers I want on my island, because I’ve heard that you need one of each personality to get all the diy cards. I wanted to be able to see all the villagers of each personality type to make my decisions, and to that effort I made cards for each personality. These are the male villagers!

[saraheellison]

A cute little Gothic crane for CiCi!

[saraheellison]

More characters! These are an Historical, cranky pink wolf, and a Hip, peppy purple squirrel.

If you're interested in commissioning me to draw your character, or perhaps a pet!, like this, I charge $30 per character. Private message me and we can talk details :)

[saraheellison]

I did another one, this one for a friend! Her characteristics ended up being Octopus, Green, Normal, Historical, and her catchphrase courtesy of her partner was ‘catastic’!

[saraheellison]

So I did another one! This is my husband's character as dictated by friends. I'm really enjoying designing AC characters.

[saraheellison]

There was a Draw Yourself as a Villager challenge going around, just completed mine 😊😊😊

[bysondesigns]

Keep reading

[saraheellison]

Since I've had a full time job I haven't done much design and illustration outside of work, but this is one thing that I did make time for.

[saraheellison]

It’s been several years since I’ve done more than just sketch something. I was motivated to do this as it is the child-version of a friends RP character, and I loved the idea of drawing him so much that I whipped this out in about 4 hours time tonight.

[saraheellison]

One of my favourite classes in school was the Package Design class, where we learned the importance of presenting information to a consumer instantly with simply package design. To test our skills we were tasked with redesigning two packages - the first would be an evolutionary design; you would take the original packaging and move it forward in a way that didn’t change the look, but merely improve it. I chose to redesign the Acetaminophen package, as the only issue I had with it was hierarchy. Through type and colour, they had originally created two levels that were competing with each other - the product title and the extra information. By moving the bar up and making it a single colour, and increasing the font size, I created a package that when looks upon would immediately direct the consumer to the information they want - the product name.

The second project was a revolutionary design - aside from the branding, we completely abandoned the previous look of the packaging. I chose the Twinings English Breakfast Tea because in addition to not giving a look or feel that I felt related to the tea, all of their teas had the exact same packaging look, the only difference being colour. I wanted to use a colour and look that harked back to England, and would give you the feeling that the tea was truly taking you there.

[saraheellison]

In my final year of school I took the Book Design class, where I learned to deeply research a subject, summarize the information, and present it in written and pictorial form. For my project I decided to write a book about deaf language, culture, and community, as a way of better understanding my cousin, who was born deaf. I took a Sign Language class at York University, so my primary research was first hand experience learning about signs, going to deaf conventions, and talking with my teacher. I presented the book as a way for a hearing person to understand the deaf community more, and it serves as an introduction to both their language and culture.

[saraheellison]

Inuyasha is my favourite manga of all time, and I finally decided I wanted to design something for it. In all my years of being part of the Inuyasha community, I’ve never seen a detailed map of the places the characters travel to, and I decided that was a good place to start.

Over the course of nearly a year I reread the entire manga, taking notes and placing locations on a generic map as I kept track of their travels. I determined locations using various angles. 1) Inuyasha undergoes a transformation every new moon. Using a calendar from 1995 (the year the manga takes place) I was able to keep track of every new moon and thus be able to track the time of their travels. 2) I researched how far a human can travel in a day and doubled it for Inuyasha, who is a half-demon. I now knew how far they could travel. 3) I used a map of feudal Japan (where most of the manga takes place) as a guide to where major villages and shrines were, using many of those places for unnamed locations in the manga. By doing this I was able to place every major and minor location the characters travel to as well as I could.

Without consulting the manga artist this fan-made map can never be confirmed or held to be canon, but with the information I have at my disposal, it is a good attempt to locate the travels of Inuyasha and his companions.

(( EDIT: I used a calendar from 1995 just as a place to start, and a way to track the passage of time. ie. There are x many days between the first and second time we see Inuyasha transform. Based on how many places they go in that time frame in the manga, and how far a human being can walk in a day, this is how far away village A is from Edo, or village B is from village A. I didn't use it to say with any firmness that Inuyasha takes place in 1995. ))

You can find a better quality version on my DeviantART account:https://see03.deviantart.com/art/Inuyasha-World-Map-744080999

[saraheellison]

I thought it was about time to create something using the techniques I’ve been learning at work, where I draw artwork for backpacks and luggage. I’m a fan of the Super Mario series, and in the past I altered coin purses to look like Chouji and Naruto from the series Naruto. Once I’ve completed a project I’m currently working on, I believe I want to attempt making one of the above bags.

[saraheellison]

It can be difficult sleeping with someone the first few times if you aren’t used to it. Case in point, with my boyfriend and I, it can be difficult sometimes to find a comfortable position we can both agree with - often we snuggle for a bit but then separate and settle into our usual sleeping positions. Here are a few of the positions we’ve tried, however. I got the idea to do this when I saw another artist’s rendering of sleeping positions and thought: “Hey, I sleep!” and I happen to think my boyfriend and I are adorable.

I’m thinking I might print this someday and put it in my room.

[saraheellison]

My boyfriend and I have dreams of someday owning a home together, and in that home we plan on having the coolest media room ever. We’re both gamers (he more so than I), so we know we’ll eventually need a solution to how we store our collective systems, games, and memorabilia. To that effect, together we came up with an idea of how to do this - above you see the result, space for two TVs so we can play at the same time. Below the TVs there are cubbies for our systems, which are plugged into a shared extension cord in the hidden space beneath. Above the TVs we plan to store our games and any figurines, etc we’ve collected.

[saraheellisonreblogs]

For those of you that don’t know, I’m the author of the fanfiction Lady of the West, which is available to read on DeviantART, Dokuga, and Fanfiction.net, all of which I go by the username see03. Some day I would love to design book covers for a living, and in a effort to work towards that, I not only designed a cover for my fanfiction, I also put together a PDF of the entire story, which you can download here: http://see03.deviantart.com/art/Lady-of-the-West-Downloadable-PDF-394883036

Here is sample of the PDF, showing the cover, and the first chapter of the story. The download is free, so if you are a fan of Inuyasha, and don’t mind the pairing of Sesshoumaru and Kagome, give my story a try. Even if you don’t like the pairing, the story is primarily about Sesshoumaru’s mother, and her life as the Western Lady.

[saraheellison]

I was inspired a few weeks ago by Minecraft textured end papers I saw in books at EB Games. I snapped some pictures and recreated the two I saw (pick axe and sword) and then used the same aesthetic to make my own version for the bow and arrow, and the axe.

I want to use these somewhere someday, but until then, they’ll just look pretty whenever I want to see them again.