So I think it's about time I updated again. I've been putting it off until I had finished my newly designed mascot and the new layout design but I forgot how much I hate having to do line-art and so it's taken me a lot longer to finish my mascot than I had initially anticipated. My trouble with line art is than I tend to draw with a fair amount of fine detail such as the eyelashes and hair, so I can't just use the live-trace option in illustrator like in most cases. Now I could just manually trace over the line art with the pen tool in Illustrator but I despise doing this as much as the other option which is to use a size 3 brush and go over the whole thing in photoshop. Despite it probably being the hardest and longest possible solution to my problem, it does give me complete control over how I would like the final drawing to turn out.
Anyhoos enough of that... Today's post is about my beloved Sims :)
So far I have all possible expansion packs from the base game up to Mansion & Garden Stuff installed, I have Sims Free Time but I uninstalled it after it kept messing with my sims likes and personalities. It took me a while to figure out what was actually causing it... I also don't have the H&M Stuff pack because I didn't think I needed any more clothes for my sims. I have over 7gb of custom content and last time I checked it took 15mins to initially load the game. It also doesn't help I'm running it on my laptop which has been emptied and its sole purpose is to run The Sims.
This is my sim family.
My sim's name is Shou and her husband is Takashima Kouyou (Kouyou Takashima in the western way) and her kids are (from left to right) Reila, Moena & Uruha.
Other than Moena you can see the GazettE influnce can't you?
This photo's actually a bit old now seeing as Reila has graduated from (uni or college as it is in the game) and has a family of her own now since this photo was taken, and Uruha is about to graduate and Moena has just left for college. Shou also has two more sons that are not pictured here. One of them is Moena's younger brother while the other is older than all three from Shou's previous partner who got eaten by the crazy carnivores cow plant... and I was cheap and didn't pay the grim reaper enough and when he was brought back to life they weren't in love anymore so I thought I might as well move Shou out and start another family.
Kouyou and Shou again.
Reila and her now husband Takashiro
This is Tamaki, he comes from my oldest sim family the Rohter family, which unfortunately I don't have any photos of the previous generation because I hadn't learnt to take posed sim photos.
This is Tamaki's wife Angelina Yagami.
Tamaki's first son Shoichi who I was hoping would be a girl... but I after opening and closing the game without saving three times in hopes of getting a boy I gave up and just made Shoichi look like a girl. He's named after a character from one of my favourite BL mangas.
Shoichi's younger brother Hayato
This is Tamaki's younger sister, Michiru
Tamaki's slightly older brother Zarek.
I hadn't realised up until I took this photo how much the two of them resemble Tamaki and Kyouya from Ouran High, I mean I knew Tamaki did hence his name. Tamaki actually has another older brother Edward who I don't have photos of because I've aready played his sim to the grave.
Zarek and his wife Gia Vanska, I went with a 19th century Victorian theme with his family.
After piles and piles of male sim babies Zarek was finally blessed with twin girls Sunako and Elizabeth.
This is Prince Luther Van Deine, well King now... he is the first of my family of Vampires.
This is his sister Princess Reyne
While Princess Reyne is now Queen, Prince Luther is the top Demon Lord.
Prince Luther's wife Ling YuXing (YuXing Ling in western standards) which means 'Raining Star' in Chinese.
YuXing is from an old witch clan and is well practised in the Dark Arts,
ie. she's an evil witch >:)
For some reason Maxis insists on adding green sparkles for witch sims which I can't seem to get rid of...
Well that's all the photos I have now, I'll upload more as things change and family's grow etc.
In total I have roughly 5 family lines that I play with regularly, and most of them I have played from cradle to grave, except my own sim family... I can't bear to see her grow old ^^;
Anyways that is all for now, I probably should leave it there before my internet explodes from picture overload.
So until next time,
Au Revoir my lovelies :)
