Update: KPop (and other colorful) hair

August 31, 2025 1 Reply

How about some elaborate new hairstyles and more hair dye experiments?

Usually I would not care much if a new film is the most successful Netflix film of all time… but in this case I really liked the hairstyles of the main characters. Hair like this was missing from the SP-Studio until now, so they inspired this update. It will be useful for Kpop fans and haters alike, because there can never be enough hairstyle options.

3 new hairstyles inspired by the “Kpop Demon Hunters” Rumi, Zoey and Mira
7 existing hairstyles were replaced by updated multicolor versions
2 new hair extensions (which work great in combination with masks and hats)

Server move and possible downtime

June 27, 2025 6 Replies

Later today SP-Studio.de will move to a new web hosting provider. Therefore, there may be loading errors (that may also affect the blog and forum), but the plan is to keep the downtime as short as possible. The picture contest is not affected.

After many years with my previous web host, technical changes there have unfortunately made this move necessary. However, nothing will change for you as this only affects processes in the background.

If the forum and blog will be down during the server migration I will keep you up to date via BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram and Jareen’s Discord fan server.

Update: Pollution

May 3, 2025 5 Replies

Six dirty items have been added to the SP-Studio!

This update was inspired by a poll for my 5$+ Patreon supporters. They chose a topic that affects us all: environmental pollution. These new items will be useful for everyday images as well as for post-apocalyptic scenarios.

An industry / factory background
New objects: trash bag, trash bin and toxic waste barrel
Radiation symbol as a “shirt motif” (but it can be moved freely)
…and of course: flies

Update: Item search

February 13, 2025 4 Replies

This update is brought to you by Lars (LGK), who coded an exciting new feature for the SP-Studio: You can now SEARCH for items!

The search is an experimental function for now, so you need to activate it in the SETTINGS first. By the way: This new Settings tab also contains the language selection. Once activated you will see the search icon next to the category selection. You can use it to quickly access any items without browsing the categories. The search recognises the names of the items as they are displayed in the item options (I will improve the titles for the hairstyles during the next days).

As a bonus Lars has also improved the keyboard controls to make the SP Studio more accessible. You can press the TAB key to navigate instead of using a mouse.

A big THANK YOU to Lars for this update!

Happy Holidays!

December 24, 2024 1 Reply

The final Christmas Special update is there! I hope you enjoyed the advent calendar with all the different surprises.

Big thanks to everybody who supported me during this difficult year and cheered me up with their comments. I am confident there will not be such a long break next year.
See you after my Christmas vacation!

Christmas Special 2024

December 1, 2024 13 Replies

24 presents will be wrapped for you, with daily surprise updates! For the 16th time I will draw new clothes, places, hairstyles and other objects for this SP-Studio advent calendar. Again all of these updates are free to use and most of the new items will be based on requests from the SP-Studio community. Visit the Wish Voting gallery to comment on your favorite update ideas or to suggest your own.

Have fun! And as always I am looking forward to your feedback in the comments. 🙂

UPDATES: As soon as a new item is online this blog post and the front page will be updated. You will also be informed here: Forum, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon (German), Discord, Patreon. The old Christmas Specials can be found here.

36 new wish voting wishes

November 30, 2024 Leave a reply

36 new wishes have been added to the gallery! Tomorrow the big SP-Studio Christmas special will start, and so it was about time to revive the wish voting gallery.

I had to pause updating it this year, but none of your wishes were lost. I went through all your messages from the last months, picked my favorite ideas and uploaded them to the gallery today. Everybody can visit the WISH VOTING GALLERY to comment on these ideas and discuss them to let me know which which I should draw for the SP-Studio. Some of them will already appear in the Christmas special. And of course you can upload new wishes here.

Update: I’m back!

November 26, 2024 2 Replies

14 FAMOUS COSTUMES for the “special shirts” category!

This is the first content update after I had to take a long break (as explained here). But this is not the only reason why I named it the “I’m back!” update. To help me get back into it, I’ve chosen some old drawings of mine that date back to the Flash version of the SP-Studio. They have been completely reworked to make them fit the new SP-Studio and to support recoloring. So you can not only dress up as famous characters, but also customize the clothes for your own characters.

The costumes were inspired by Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy, Disney’s Gummi Bears, Mulan, DuckTales, Halo, Doom, Metal Gear Solid and Metroid.

A quick away message

September 22, 2024 5 Replies

From tomorrow I will be absent for a few days because I have to go to hospital for my eye surgery. The plan is to be back by the end of the week, but it depends on the healing process. So I’ll just say “see you soon” – hopefully with better vision!

I also want to thank you for your kind reaction to my last blog post. Because the comments are under moderation to prevent spam, anything you write now will not be visible until I am back. But nothing gets lost. Sometimes this causes confusion, so I want to explain it just in case. This surgery is an important step on my way back to working normally again, and I am looking forward to returning to SP-Studio updates.

Health issues

Please take the time to read this personal post, even though the topic is not a happy one. Although I have been organising the picture contests on a monthly base, there has been no new content for the SP-Studio since the big animal update in March. People keep asking if I ‘forgot’ about the updates. Of course it is not like that. I regret every single day that I am not able to work on this project. That’s why I want to explain what is going on.

I am struggling with health problems. The eye issues I wrote about 3 years ago have got worse. The vision in my left eye is now so bad that I can no longer use it at all (even with new glasses). In addition, since last year I have been suffering from unexplained vertigo attacks while working at the computer. These things might be related, but nobody knows for sure yet.
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