You might be waiting for the rest of the movie outfits… Unfortunately I had no working office during the past weeks, because I was moving houses – and it took longer than expected. 🙁
But now I’m back! My walls are painted, the desk is in its place and the computer running. Even internet is working. So today I was able to finally launch the voting for the current picture contest and the next content update will follow just in time before the big Christmas Special will start on December 1st.
We are moving houses, so I decided to continue with a couple of small updates during October and November. You won’t have to wait so long for the next one, that’s a promise. 🙂 And you can make suggestions in the comments. My Patreon supporters chose the topic: Fashion inspired by Hollywood! But this time I don’t want to focus on superhero costumes or other very unique stuff. I will draw more casual outfits which can be worn by everybody so they are useful for all types of characters. And I might change some details to make them fit better with the SP-Studio. These are the first three of them:
And again it’s summer time! After I provided some swimwear last week I wanted to focus on t-shirts this time. So nine new shirts for different tastes were added today!
My goal was to give anime or metal fans some neutral shirts which are not based on one specific brand. There are also two cute shirts for pet owners with a puppy and a kitten on it. For those of you who like to travel there’s a boat and a car. Programmers will find something for them as well. And in case you don’t like t-shirts with motifs at all there are two classic models without them. The shirts will have custom colors in the new SP-Studio, but it will depend on where it makes sense. And a quick note in case you are waiting for it: I am away for the weekend, so the next picture contest will start on Monday.
It’s summer time! Well, at least where I live. And this inspired me to draw some new clothes for your sweating SP-Studio characters. In this first update I focused on swimwear:
Nine swim trunks and six bikini tops were included.
Remember you will be able to customize all their colors in the new SP-Studio. So that’s something to look forward to. 🙂
The second summer fashion update will bring new t-shirt designs and will be online next Friday.
Can you help me to come up with new contest topics? As you know I run monthly contests for SP-Studio artists on this website, and we have been doing these since October 2010. That’s A LOT of creativity and I hope you have as much fun creating those pictures as I have looking through them. And you know what? The next contest will be the 100th! But I run out of ideas for new topics. So I ask you to help me by suggesting some contest topics. Don’t be afraid, write down whatever comes to your mind!
A good topic is inspiring enough to use the SP-Studio in interesting ways, but it’s also nice to have topics with specific themes (like “Disney characters” or “Professional Wrestlers”). The only restriction is it should be something many people can relate to. What topics would you like to see in the future? Or should I start repeating old topics? Write your ideas in the blog comments, forum, on Twitter or Facebook!
On my quest to help you build the beard of your dreams I added 10 new items to the “stuff / beards” category. In the SP-Studio you can not just pick one beard, you can combine different parts to make it fit your unique style. The new items inlude mutton chops, chin beards and mustaches.
The topic of this update was chosen by the 5$+ Patreon Supporters in a vote. I hope you like the new hairy parts. 🙂
If you are interested in some of my artworks related to SP-Studio updates you might want to follow the DeviantArt account sp-studio-art. It is an old account I initially used to collect my custom drawings of South Park characters in a gallery, but it was inactive for several years. I revived it now to have a place for my SP-Studio related drawings.
Usually when I work on a new costume based on a famous movie, tv show or video game I draw the whole character. Then I split it into different parts for the SP-Studio categories. But sometimes my drawings are more detailed than what would fit the SP-Studio. Or I return to a drawing later and improve it just for fun. My DeviantArt account shows these “improved artworks”. Some of them are similar to what you can build with the SP-Studio, but many parts will look better (like Rocket Racoon’s fur) and there are even characters I never used for SP-Studio updates (like Bowser). So I feel like it might be worth collecting them. And since I do not delete old pictures you can also see my very first drawings when you scroll down, which might be funny to look at. 😉
I just uploaded the new www.sp-studio.de update with seven items based on your wishes (posted in emoji form):
For the next SP-Studio update I came up with a strange idea… but I think it will be an interesting experiment.
Post emojis of the things you want to see in the next update!
I will pick some of your requests and draw them. There might be room for interpretation, but that’s the fun about it. Of course I will draw them in my own style, so there won’t be yellow faces. 😉
You can request as many emojis as you want by replying here, on Patreon, Twitter, Facebook or in the forum. If you use a mobile device it should be easy to add an emoji. If you are on a desktop computer and don’t know how to access them you can use this website and copy them: https://emojipedia.org. The update should be online around the end of this month.
Visit the shiny new SP-Studio forum!
It took some time, but after the crash of the old forum I wanted to make sure the new forum software runs smoothly. I was able to save all the user accounts, posts, private messages and most settings. So I hope you will feel at home in the new forum. 🙂 It has some nice new features, a modern text editor, better spam protection, SSL, supports mobile devices and you can now attatch image files directly to your post. You can read more about what’s new in this thread.
The forum is the best place to ask for help when you run into problems while using the SP-Studio. There is an extra subforum for support. You can also suggest new items and discuss updates or the development of the new SP-Studio. So it’s worth to register. Of course the registration is free. See you there!
