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Upcoming features in Sugarplum Cafe + changes to post frequency

So I've had a few friends playtest the latest build and I'm already starting to work on the next update so I can change some stuff based on their feedback. As you may recall, a big part of the game is discovering all the possible cakes and teasets in the game, which are created by combining different flavors. Currently figuring out these flavor combinations involves a bunch of trial and error, but I'm going to change this and add in-game hints to help you out. 

The...

WIP: Angel Aura Commission

Lineart for a commission I'm working on! I'm still working on Sugarplum, but I'm grateful to get a commission every now and then so I'll take them when I can. I figure that for y'all it'll be a nice breath of fresh air between all the Sugarplum stuff too :)

The client whom I recently redrew Citrine for commissioned me to draw Citrine's lover, Angel Aura. I took this opportunity to practice drawing hair; usual...

Sugarplum Cafe's 2024 demo is ready!

I'm a bit late, but a new playable demo of my merge crafting game Sugarplum Cafe is finally ready for patrons! Here are some screencaps of the cool things you can experience this time around.

For this update, I've introduced some new game mechanics such as making cakes with multiple flavors or hiring staff to automate some of the crafting for you. A lot of this is still in flux a...

Magical Girl Stickers

Finally edited the photos of my glittery Magical Girl stickers! They are now available for purchase on my Ko-Fi shop. $10+ patrons can also receive them as a complimentary gift after three months of support at that tier!

Each sticker is about 3 by 4-4.5 inches and has holographic glitter in some parts!

I've been thinking of drawing more anime girlies in this style, I definitely want to draw Angewomon becau...

New Sugarplum Cafe art + plans for the new year

Here's an update on visuals for Sugarplum Cafe! Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a playable build done by December like I have in past years, but I have been able to spend this month avidly working on the game. 

Some of the UI and items have new art, but I think what would be more interesting to show is the new Madeline designs. Originally they all looked the same as Vanilla Madeline bu...

Bob Mackie-inspired style explorations

Dabbling in some other styles! I feel like when I currently design fashion, my art looks too anime-y and doesn't feel "fashion illustration" enough. So I redrew one of my Sailor Moon designs and tried some new CSP brushes, and I think this version looks way more likely to be in a fashion magazine if that makes sense? I was reminded of one of my favorite fashion designers, Bob Mackie, who would often accompany his designs with quick illustrations. Not that I think my final result resembles his...

Desserts

Hello! This week's post is a little light on the art because a) I'm traveling this weekend and b) I'm in an art rut (what else is new). I've mostly been working on art assets for my game, so here are some of the desserts in Sugarplum Cafe. Not only will these be game assets, but they will help fill space in my illustrations!

I think these look a lot nicer than what's currently in game...

Pantone Colors of the Year (2023 version) + art musings

My Pantone Collection has officially been updated to include Viva Magenta!

I know I said in my previous Pantone post that this would be the last year I'm doing this, but truth be told I do like next year's color (Peach Fuzz) enough that I might be able to come up with a design. I'm thinking honestly this would be a good excuse to design Lady Peach for the Sugarplum project and kill two birds with one stone 😝
So I'm not promising to resume this series, but it's not a definite no f...

New Sugarplum Ladies!

*Please click each image to see them in full!*

As mentioned before, I am taking a break from the Sugarplum illustrations to work on the actual game itself. Happy to say I've finished what will be the in-game sprites for some new characters in Sugarplum Cafe! These are the new ladies I plan to introduce for the next version of the demo.

Some of these are redrawn versions of characters I dr...

Pantone Color of the Year 2023: Viva Magenta

It's that time of year where I draw a design for Pantone's Color of the Year again! I don't know if this is the final version yet, but if I change anything I'll update this post with the latest images.

This year's color was Viva Magenta and I wanted to do something inspired by fireworks and celebration. This design may look a little grand and somber for such a celebratory color - this was intentional as I think this is a good stopping point for the Pantone Series.

To be honest, th...

Lady Lime + stickers for $10+ patrons!

Lady Lime is done! I really enjoy the mod fashion of the 60s and I feel like lime is such a bright color that fits mod fashion so perfectly.

She's the twin sister of Lady Lemon, so their two poses are meant to mirror each other.

I think I am going to take a breather from these illustrations for a couple of wee...

Lady Lemon + commissions

New character alert! Lady Lemon is part of a set of new characters I designed a while back. I'm adding her and her twin sister to the latest update, so I finally got around to drawing her official art assets. You can see my design notes on her in the post linked earlier!

Hopefully the background isn't too dark, I've been trying to adjust my colors to work both on mobile and desktop and mobile te...

Lady Mint

Hello, we're back after a month of hiatus! The work trip to Japan was so lovely. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions about what it's like to work in Japan because I have a lot of feelings about it but I would like to save you the trouble of a text wall haha. But before that, here's some art!

Lady Mint is the final member of the original Sugarplum Squad. My friends keep calling her my self-insert in the game, to which I say: I'm offended! Like yeah, I used to have that...

Lady Strawberry, another Space Faerie, and an announcement

This week is a double feature!

Lady Strawberry

The third illustration in my Sugarplum series, check the "sugarplum cafe" tag to see the rest!

Truthfully I don't like strawberries IRL and refuse to eat anything with them, but I totally get why people love to include them in all the "aesthetic" stuff. They're so fun to draw and make everything look cute!

Space Faerie 2

I wasn't really a fan of the pose I drew for Space Faerie, even...

Lady Chocolate

The second illustration in my Sugarplum series! Check the "sugarplum cafe" tag to see the rest.

I kinda struggled coming up with a motif to fill up space, as chocolate bars/squares didn't feel dainty enough for the aesthetic. In the end, I settled on chocolate bonbons.

Is the back foot too small, by the way? I've been staring at this so long, I can't tell.

Faeries

I went ahead and finished the other two faeries so I can officially complete this redraw of my favorite Neopets animation! And I can celebrate officially getting my account back 🥳

You can see my notes on Illusen the Earth Faerie here, and Jhudora the Dark Faerie here.

Fyora the Faerie Queen has always been my favorite faer...

Lady Vanilla

I've decided to reconcile my desire to work on Sugarplum Cafe with my desire to sell at anime conventions by making proper printable art of my Sugarplum Cafe characters 😊 I've teased these characters publicly before, and I'm hoping this will get some more visibility on my game.

I continue to be inspired by the paper doll style composition that I used for my Barbie fanart, and it's also a very useful excuse for me to draw items that will become new game assets 😉 I haven't yet decid...

Magical Girls

Some of my favorite magical girl costumes: Princess Sailor Moon, Godoka, and Clear Card Sakura! It's not original fashion, but I just really wanted to draw them in my style...

I want to turn these into stickers to sell at potential cons! But these will also be eligible as rewards for patrons at $10 and up (when they are printed).

Alphabet Series, pt. 3: complete!

So...I ended up finishing the other two and the mini-series is done! You can read my walkthrough of Cerulean here!
If $10 patrons or higher are interested in timelapse videos of all three, please let me know in the comments and I will upload them.

I did play with different versions of the layouts, but after showing them to my boyfriend he preferred the original one after all.

I don't know if I will c...

Jhudora and Illusen redesigns

I drew a second faerie to keep Illusen company! (probably to her chagrin since they're supposed to be rivals) I did post this to my socials earlier, but you guys get the HQ unglazed version. And amazing news - my Neopets account finally got unlocked! 🙏

Jhudora the Dark Faerie has a pretty...meh design if I can be completely honest. I honestly struggled to design interesting fashion based on her original clothes, because her original wardrobe was not really that inspiring. It's about ...

Alphabet Series, pt. 2: C is for...

Back from vacation! Heard Patreon was going through some glitches, hopefully they've been resolved...

This week I made some progress on the Alphabet Series, adding a third color.

I wanted to draw one of them properly to figure out the final composition. I decided to start drawing C first because I thought if I post them in reverse order it'll look nicer when you look back at my gallery, ...

Self-portrait, Illusen from Neopets, no post next week

Hi! I'm taking a break from posting next week (going on a trip!), so I figured I'll drop two drawings here for the price of one 😊

1) What I wore to watch the Barbie movie!

I loathe taking photos of myself, but I have put together a lot of outfits I'm proud of and wanted to depict them somehow. Happy to share details of where I got pieces if anyone is curious! And would love to doodle ...

Sailor busts for my patrons!

Wanted to share the sailor bust rewards I've drawn so far in full resolution. My $10 patrons get to choose a canon character from Sailor Moon to represent them, and my $20 patrons get a custom designed bust!

Alphabet Series, pt. 1: thumbnailing

I've got a new original fashion series in mind!

The Alphabet Series would be a series of fashion designs inspired by interesting colors, one for each letter of the alphabet. 26 designs is very ambitious, so right now I'm only aiming to finish A, B, and C and then we'll see how I feel after 3 of them. (I haven't drawn C yet so no your eyes are not deceiving you there are only 2...

Barbie, pt. 2 (done!)

I wasn't expecting to finish so quickly, but she's done!

It took me about 3 days to draw everything, which is much faster than the Jobu Tupaki fanart which took a month.

I also made a version that amps...

Barbie (pt. 1)

Another fashion animation is in the works! 

I'm so hyped for the Barbie movie, especially the costumes. I really wanted to draw the costumes I liked, and shuffling through them like a dress up game seemed like a fun concept. Like my EEAAO animation, I haven't seen anyone do a concept like this and I want to be the change I wish to see in the world...that said, if you have seen someone do t...

Sailor Princesses Collection

Surprise! I took a small break from all the Sugarplum development to finally complete this series 😊

The reason is that I spoke to a couple of friends who were very insistent that I start selling art at anime conventions, convinced that my booth would flourish. I have my doubts, considering my low online sales (it's why I pivoted to digital goods like Sugarplum Cafe), but my friends did have a point that con-goers would be more likely to buy stuff. I'm still on the fence because of th...

Redrawing Sugarplum Cafe backgrounds

Trying to make the in-game art look more "final"! Biggest goal with the redraw, aside from making everything look nicer in general, was adding some more pastel colors so that it wouldn't just be white and gold. 

I included the old art so you can compare the two versions!

Lobby (the main room):

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Sugarplum Tea Party, pt. 3: finished!

I finished her this week! Scroll down to see the final sneak peek 😊

For starters, here are all the final colors. Definitely a lot less messy than the mockup!

Then came the process of making the logo. I really like the font I've been using for the whole game (Mary Jane Antique, 100% free commercial use) so I didn't want to change much, but I did want to give the logo a little more flai...

Sugarplum Tea Party, pt.2: interior design

This week's progress! These are not final colors, I just threw some colors on to get an idea of what the final piece will look like. I'll go through each of the details I worked on this week.

First, with the lineart of the ladies done last week, I added a tea table for them to rest at.

I went w...