Infant Great One concept (now grown up a bit)! I wanted a design based off the Moon Presence and some of Kos mixed in there. I wanted something more flesh leaning as Ana is a human that turned into a Great One, not one that was naturally formed (or however the hell they’re supposed to be made. It’s vague and I will use that to my advantage). Moved this design to a different project, but I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas on what it would look like.
Wanted a smaller frame to give a younger air about her. A veiled figure is Mysterious (and she doesn’t have a face anyway)
Here I’m still going with the smaller humanoid design, but experimenting with potential colors. I liked the idea of a princess appearance. Youthful and delicate, but not quite harmless. Wanted to keep the skin purple in some way because that’s all we’re given in terms of color for the infant great one. Though I’m sure physical appearance doesn’t mean much to these guys lol
More ideas
Body concept more marine. Inspired by Kos. Cool, but rejected due to me wanting something more land-based. I did like the chest grooves though!
More distorted bodies, now with more terrestrial forms. More Moon Presence leaning
Face concepts. Wasn’t sure what I wanted. More alien? more human? Flexible face, rigid face.
This is the closest I’ve gotten to a final design for this (adult) form. Got some inspiration from Lord Rykard’s boss from Elden ring and thought “Snakes!” And figured it was a good mashup of sea and land body (plus, snake designs fuck massively! It’s was near perfect,)
Played Bloodborne after elden ring and it’s so far from my aesthetics and yet I fell in love with it lol…two of our hunter ocs we made, Rounsfell became a infant great one and Urqs was experimented on so he’s a blorbo sometimes (the celestial kind) and also I might make those tie up charms but idk
making infants a thing in the sims 4 is the worst thing that ever happened to me. like theoretically i agree with babies no longer being literal objects but as the worlds' number one toddler gameplay hater, introducing Toddlers 2: Even Less Independent Version has been my personal nightmare. my family is on baby number 2 now and i actually hate his little face. make it stop
I'm obsessed with your Micolash design you make him look a THOUSAND times prettier than he actually is and thank god for it. Doin the lords work
LOL that’s because I’m an unabashed aesthete and an avowed hedonist, and everything I do will be unapologetically a little too pretty. If you want to see me do anything with actual range, you’d have to read my writing.
The folks drawing him as the slimy corpse that he is are doing just as great work. To each their own, we’re all gonna die sooner than we think so draw whatever makes you happy. Live deliciously, etc etc.
I also tend to draw Byrgenwerth-era Micolash as sullen and sleep-deprived and mysteriously with eyebrows???
fr is he, you know.............................................repeatedly described as being Impersonable and Lacking Charm and Pedantic and confused / bothered by things he supposedly shouldn't be while inspiring confusion / botherment in others in ways he supposedly shouldn't and like 99.9% of the grief he's given is over All That while he's just sitting or standing there rather than the like intimidatingly efficient hitman georg thing he has going on. which is in fact The Skill That Makes Him Useful Despite It All and also perhaps the least foothold in interactions because [worried he can & may kill you] affords power when otherwise just being the weird guy nobody likes(tm)
Thinking about (my version of) Alastor's mother, one of the more than a dozen children of a freed slave and a Choctaw woman, growing up in the miserable conditions of the Indian Territory where her people were forced to, eventually growing up and escaping south in a way that felt like returning home despite the dangers. Trying to pass on the traditions that her own parents taught her to her son while also being intimately aware that the only way he could survive was by hiding everything that made their family what it was.
The way I will always have the most pity + compassion for Queen Yharnam and Mergo. They didn't ask for any of this to happen. Victims of the circumstances. and of others' cruelty.
One of the biggest reasons I really dislike infant puppies is so much time and energy is dedicated to making sure they get training, and socialization, and playtime, and physical and mental exercise. And you have to be on top of them 100% of the time to make sure they aren't harassing your other dogs or chewing power cords or inventing new ways to kill themselves.
Which means when the infant is down for a nap I have to do my chores or rest, which means that my adult dog and I are not getting the physical exercise we are used to/need. And I'm too tired to give my adult dog the mental exercise he's used to/needs.
So I'm playing with Zaku so he'll be tired enough to nap and Kermit stands a few feet to the side and just barks at me.
Things will get better once I can take this puppy for walks, but man, this first month is rough.
kiiiinda wanting to bring back age-specific agouti overlays for the cat skins. I know it makes them a bit lower quality and causes some artifacts but at the distance you generally see sims in game it's probably not even noticeable outside of CAS and I miss being able to give the kittens faint fuzzy markings that come in as they age. especially now that we have infants