Shex

Info:

Hello

My name is Shex, I've been playing online pet and sim games since 2006 and never really grew out of it. I still occasionally enjoy to play, collect and breed on several sites, and I am also fascinated by the game creator community, especially since so many of these games are made by small teams and just regular people.

I just finished studying and my job won't start until late August this year, that leaves me with a lot of time to draw! I've drawn for Novilar in the past and also a couple of small commissions for wolfplaygame, but that was about 3-4 years ago.

I'd love to draw more game art, I don't really have a set style and I can always try to imitate your site's style! My comfort zone is rather realistic, but I enjoy simpler styles or chibis just as much  

Things I am comfortable to draw:

animals (especially canines, dragons and dinosaurs, but also felines and fantasy creatures), items, backgrounds, miscellaneous illustrations, chibis, linearts

I'd rather not draw humans because I am simply not good or experienced with them. I can draw items or clothing for human bases though!

Art Examples:

Find a quick overview in my main gallery at https://salon.io/shex

item art

creature art

background art

misc

--> info on what I won't draw

Prices:

Prices mostly depend on complexity and detail level/canvas size of your project. To give some averages (in USD):

items: 3-4 for low detail/unshaded; 5-6 for medium detailed, 8+ for detailed items

background art: ~25 for an average detailed background with foreground, middle-ground and background

creature art: really depends on what is needed. Simple lineart would start at 20, a cell-shaded base could be around 40-50

Schedule:

I have one more commission on my list at the moment, but apart from that, I got several hours each day to spend drawing Right now that means short turnaround times for you, probably within a couple of days!

Contact:

telegram (quickest): @shiggedi

discord: Shex#0633

email: shex.arts (at) gmail.com

References:

In the past I've worked mostly for Novilar. Recently I finished background commissions for Faenaria and Folk of Lore, too.

On 3/11/2020 at 12:50 AM, Pepper-Head said:

Are there any games that you'd be interested in trying out, or returning to?

Hmm, let me think...

I noticed there's a ton of animal simulation games in the (iOS) app store, some of them are looking kinda promising, some look sooo trashy... But I think those 3D run-around-as-an-animal games could still have some nice features?

How about "WildCrafts; Wild Sim Online", it's free, it's available on Android and iOS and has good ratings so far

Sounds cool, I'd love to join

I liked VPL, but I am also bitter that it just disappeared (the last thing I remember was a promise that it would be back "next month") and then I just never heard of it again and it never came back. I actually had some losses, I bought stuff and didn't have email communication with the sellers so it was just gone.

Just coming back with no explanation is the biggest turn-off for me.

Also, I came to VPL from gamefruit, to which I found from ProSim Union :P

Without the old content it's... just another forum. With 4 members.

Well.

Heya, thanks so much for the detailed tutorial!

I was wondering if there are other blending modes such as 'multiply' for imagick and if you know a source where I can learn more about them?

What style are you looking for? Could you post some examples maybe?

Also for features, do you want clothing (and if yes, which style(s)?

9 hours ago, Navy said:

On games where real money can be involved in the creation or appearance of a pet, I'm strongly opposed to death systems. If I spend money on a pet, I don't want to lose it. I wouldn't spend money on any pets where they die. I do strongly support "release" systems though where pets are removed from the active pet population and can be erased by the game. If pets do have a death, I'd prefer it be based on when I log in and not include the days where I'm unable to get on and play (similar to Lioden's rollover function). If my pets are dying regardless of the fact I can't get online to take care of them, I'm going to be put off from the game entirely.

Totally what I thought of, too. If I paid real money for it I wouldn't want to just lose that money after a certain time. 

But also "death" doesn't seem right. I remember 'the old days' on wajas when the first retirement option was introduced, after years and years of just breeding with no way of getting rid of ugly pets. And it started a huge wave of retiring. If instead it was called 'death' that'd have been some huge mass murder :')

I like the idea of Flight Rising, adding this feature to the lore so retired pets somehow join their gods and serve them, so they don't just disappear. Still, seen from the developer's side I know that it'd be best if the generated image of the pet was deleted, but that's something I especially don't like. If I click through the lineage of a pet and stumble across one retired one, I'd love to see how it looked, and not just some blank white image

On 5/9/2017 at 9:17 PM, Digital said:

Sorry, this one escaped my follow up list. Size has been increased to 150x150 for avatars! @PaulSonny and @Shex!

Yay, thank you! 

1990s

Scrubs (series)

Alcohol D:

Greeeen

So there's no way to get it if you were not active during these 24 hours?

2 hours ago, Sparren said:

@runeowl

I hope so too. For the time being I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt and assuming it is still being worked on. It's very possible that the webmaster just hasn't noticed anything wrong yet. I don't know how long it has been unavailable since I only tried it tonight in response to your earlier post. We'll just have to wait and see.

I already posted that one earlier in this thread and it was down at least since April 9: 

On 4/9/2017 at 11:43 AM, Shex said:

 

EDIT: Found it, it was located at http://design1online.com/, but that site seems to be down, last facebook status update was in January

7 minutes ago, jakdacrowe said:

Hen!

KFC

8 hours ago, jakdacrowe said:

Rabbit!

Watership Down 

If black is no color is grey only half a color?

Does that mean that light has no color or all colors? 

It's absolutely wrong. 

But also they had to remove passengers, it's normal procedure, overbooking is a common practice. It might have been better to just offer more money to actually find volunteers though  

Just now, jakdacrowe said:

Tumblr...

*takes a deep breath* DRAMA

1 minute ago, jakdacrowe said:

Imageboards.

Reposts. 

Just now, jakdacrowe said:

Hackers??

4-Chan the hacker! 

2 minutes ago, jakdacrowe said:

Anonymous!

People with gloves and balaclava in front of their PC!

1 minute ago, jakdacrowe said:

Onion! //snort

TOR (The Onion Router)