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Asha loves being a mother, she never thought this role would suit her so well. She loves her children very much and tries to devote every moment of her life to them. Sundays are always devoted to family time, so taking advantage of the last warm days Asha had a picnic with her girls in a backyard.

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I'm begging, hands, knees, please, tangerine, come on back to me.

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Like mother, like son 👞👞

I just got Lovestruck (late as hell to the party) and the SOUND I MADE when I found Sophie and Ulrike cuddling in bed!!!!!!

Which is kind of hilarious because that is absolutely not the biggest recent development in their lives 💀

Welcome, Lily <3

Edit this screenie with me!

This is an unused screenie of Penny Pizzazz and Marcus Flex. Feel free to save the screenshot (Dropbox link below) and follow along with the instructions, or play around with it and do your own thing! I’m going to keep the instructions as simple as possible; hopefully they make sense.

Note: My process is kinda involved, but it’s a relaxing hobby for me. You do not need to do all of these steps! If the process doesn’t bring you joy, don’t bother!

I’m using procreate, but I’m also a photoshop user. You can use any software that has layers and blend modes :)

Instructions and downloads under the cut!

Dropbox link to the screenshot, and overlays!

1. Let’s start with shadows. The first step is to create a new layer. Put the blend mode to “multiply” (this darkens anything you draw on the layer). Then select a soft brush. We’ll start with Penny’s face. Use the eyedropper tool to choose a shadowy color of her skin (hold your finger on the color you want).

2. Decide where the light will be coming from (we’ll be placing it behind them on the top left). Deepen the shadows already made by the game, and add some shadows opposite to where the light will be. Choose a darker color to match each area you’re drawing on (Penny’s hair, her shirt, Marcus’ skin, his sweater).

When you’re finished drawing the shadows, go into your layer and lower the opacity. Less is more!

3. Choose the eraser (set it to soft brush). With a light hand, soften any shaded areas that are too harsh. Basically you want to blend the shadow with the skin using the eraser. You can also use Gaussian blur!

4. Let’s add some background lighting. This will also be our guide as we add bolder highlights in the next steps. Make a new layer and set the blend mode to “add.” Take your soft brush and a yellowy-orange color, and draw some glowy light coming from the top left.

Lower the opacity and take the eraser and erase much of the light on the right side of Marcus, and erase a bit of the light on their skin/ hair/ etc (like we did with the shadows). You can use Gaussian blur here too!

Note about lighting and highlights: experiment with the color of light, because some will look better depending on the environment and the sims skin tones. Because Penny and Marcus have dark skin, a bolder or darker yellow/orange will look much better than a pale yellow.

5. Let’s start adding more highlights! Make another new layer and change the blend mode to “add.” Choose a yellow-orange and paint some highlights on Penny’s hair, her left shoulder, her chest, cheekbone, and the left side of Marcus’ face. I made the image on the left a different color so you can see where I put the highlights.

Lower the opacity, and use the eraser or Gaussian blur to blend.

6. More highlights! Make a new layer and set the blend mode to “overlay.” Overlay lightens while adding color. I use “light pen” for any outlined highlights (the outer left of Penny’s hair, Penny’s shoulder, the left side of Marcus’ face), and I use a soft brush for the rest. Lower with the opacity, and use the eraser to blend.

This is a great time to play around with other highlight colors! I’m sticking with yellows, so I chose a peach color. Note: the red is to show what I drew.

7. We’re going to import a light leak overlay, and set the layer to “screen.” Then take your eraser, and erase any areas where you don’t want there to be too much light (red areas).

Finally, I’ll merge the layers together and bump up the highlights by going to adjustments > curves. Then I’ll add noise, and a vintage dust overlay. Sometimes I do more than this, sometimes less. I also like to draw hair strands and stuff, but that’s a whole second tutorial.

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👷🏻‍♀️ 15 days of rooms! || a sims 4 build challenge

my very first sims 4 challenge! i've been wanting to create some sort of challenge for the sims 4 for so long now but writing a legacy challenge requires a lot of time that i unfortunately do not have :') so i figured, why not start with something small? thus, the 15 days of rooms challenge was born :D i'm always wanting to improve my decorating skills in the sims so i think this challenge will help me a ton!!

general info - room size/shape doesn't matter, but i do recommend 4x4! - feel free to use cc! but if you want an extra challenge, try to go no cc ;) that's what i'm doing and i've discovered so many in-game gems :D - take screenshots of your build and tag it with #dw15 or @ me if you wanna :D i would love to see what you come up with! - everything else is up to you - feel free to skip days, or just doing whichever prompt you want to!

you can take the screenshots however you like, but here's an editing tutorial on how to get the "dollhouse" effect that i'm sort of doing!

i hope you have fun with this lil challenge and i can't wait to see what everyone has in store <3 my first post will be up tonight 🙈

written list of prompts below the cut!

day 1: your dream bedroom

day 2: cottagecore kitchen

day 3: simfluencer’s workspace

day 4: an OC’s teenage/childhood bedroom

day 5: a room based on a video game

day 6: a room based on a sims 4 world

day 7: coastal inspired living room

day 8: a room for w not so berry heir

day 9: boarding school dorm

day 10: garden tea room

day 11: penthouse bathroom

day 12: a room for a retired supervillain

day 13: a room inspired by an in-game rug

day 14: vampire lounge

day 15: your choice!

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