Author Archives: Janina

Contest news (July)

July 12, 2015 1 Reply

The black death… This atmospheric SP-Studio picture was created by Joker, winner of the last contest. Congratulations! You can see all the entries here: SP-Studio contest 06/2015: Middle Ages / Hall of Fame.
This month the contest topic is SIDEKICKS. Let’s not focus on heroes or vilains but on their friends and helpers. Create a SP-Studio picture of a famous sidekick from a book, movie, tv show or game and submit it to the contets gallery until July 20th. You can read more about how it works here. Good luck!

Big Update with new features!

June 28, 2015 10 Replies

SP-Studio update Ready for big pictures and some spinning? After more than 100 hours of work I am proud to present the new improved SP-Studio! Thanks to everybody who supports me with Patreon or Paypal. This motivated me to finally work on this huge update. I had to change every file to include those new features, but I think they are very useful:

Full screen mode! This makes it more comfortable to work on your pictures.
Bigger images! When you save them you have 3 sizes to choose from.
New item menu! It looks better now and has more features:
– recoloring custom color items at any time
– flipping and flipping back the items (and more can be flipped now)
– spinning every item (in small steps or by pressing the mouse button)
– dragging the item menu to another place if it is in your way
The copyrights text became clearer and is included in the “save” screen.

I improved old drawings a little bit if they looked too bad in full screen mode. The F.A.Q. have been updated. Oh, and stripes and points for the skin have custom colors now.
A “sp-studio.de” watermark has been included because unfortunately many people used my pictures without mentioning the source. This makes it difficult for this website to survive. But you can still remove the watermark if you want to link to sp-studio.de in a different way. Those who read carefully will be rewarded… :). I hope you support what you like, even if I let you decide for yourself.
Have fun with the update! 🙂
Attention: If you see the old item menu instead of the new one or other strange errors appear, this means old files are still saved in your browser cache. Go to your browser settings and clear the cache (temporary internet files). Then your computer will recognize the files.

Let there be rainbows

Contest news (June)

June 18, 2015 Leave a reply

I am a bit late with this post, because I am working on a huge SP-Studio update every free minute. It will be really cool! But the winning picture from the last SP-Studio contest was cool as well… congratulations to sexyshane for his Darth Vader! You can see all the entries here: SP-Studio contest 05/2015: Star Wars vs Star Trek / Hall of Fame.
The current SP-Studio contest for this month is about a historical topic: Create a picture about the middle ages! You can pick anything that’s connected to the years between 500 and 1500. Upload your picture to the contest gallery until June 20th. You can read more about how it works here. Good luck!

Twice as much color!

June 2, 2015 9 Replies

From now on you can choose from 200 different colors when you create your sp-studio.de characters. I am sure this will help you to be even more creative! 🙂 Hair, shirts, skin, backgrounds… every item which uses the palette benefits from this update. The colors are better sorted now so you can find a fitting color combination easier than before. I chose the different shades for every color myself instead of using an automatic script to do this to make sure everything looks like I want it to look.
As a bonus more eye make-up, horns and wings from the “make-up and extra body parts” category have turned into custom color items. And I made little improvements to many hair styles because looking at old drawings can feel pretty awkward. I changed black lines to dark lines (depending on the selected color) and fixed small “holes” between hair and body.
I am looking forward to seeing your colorful SP-Studio pictures!

musical instruments & headphones

May 24, 2015 4 Replies

Today’s update is all about music! I drew seven new items:

headphones (worn)
headphones (around the neck)
Explorer guitar
grand piano
big harp
small harp
recorder

Most of them were wishes from SP-Studio fans. The simple old headphones / acoustic earmuffs (I can’t remember what they were supposed to be in the first place ;)) got a costum color upgrade as well. And I fixed two small errors with the dresses and the Frankenstein bolts.

Contest news (May)

May 5, 2015 1 Reply

SP-Studio contest toys Eggyslav won the SP-Studio contest about “toys” with this creative Lego pirate! There were many great submissions: SP-Studio contest 04/2015: Toys / Hall of Fame.
And of course we have a new contest for May. Live long and may space travel be with you! Between May the 4th and revenge of the 5th this contest topic came to my mind: Create a picture about Star Trek or Star Wars! The movies, the tv shows, the novels, the games, the expanded universe… there are a lot of characters and scenes you can choose from. Crazy Star Wars / Star Trek crossovers are allowed as well, but the “vs” part of the title is not important. Upload your picture to the contest gallery until May 20th. You can read more about how it works here. Good luck!

Fashion inspired by Game of Thrones

April 21, 2015 8 Replies

To celebrate my Patreon launch I drew new costumes for your SP-Studio characters!
Many people ask me to include more clothes to dress up your avatars as fantasy characters, like shiny armor and classy gowns. Since HBO’s “Game of Thrones” just launched its fifth season and I am a big fan I decided to dedicate this update to the show. So these new costumes are inspired by the fashion of Westeros. I hope you like how they turned out. I wanted to draw something which is not only interesting for fans but also neutral enough to use it for any kind of medieval or fantasy characters.
There are 5 new shirts, 2 dresses and a single belt.
If you like this update and want to see more like this in the future please consider supporting the SP-Studio at Patreon or sharing this link.

I have a Patreon page now

April 20, 2015 9 Replies

Do you like SP-Studio.de? You can support it now at Patreon.com with a small monthly pledge. Even a Dollar can make a difference. I started this crowdfunding campaign in order to be able to continue to provide regular updates and more content. Asking for money is not easy for me, but Patreon is a fair concept, because you support artists who already create content you enjoy. So you know what you get. They do it for free, but this doesn’t mean they can survive without money.
I started to work on this project back in 2002 and never charged my visitors for anything. Not only the updates take time to draw and code, I also reply to feedback and provide support every day. Now I cannot afford to put more time into a project I don’t earn money with. I get a lot of interesting feedback and there are so many ideas I would love to draw, but unfortunately I can only include a very small part of those. To pay my rent I work as a freelancer, so if this Patreon campaign pays off I could choose to work less on other jobs and put more time into my own projects like the SP-Studio.

This is my Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/janinahimmen

Please take the time to have a look and consider to become my patron. The video is in English, but there are subtitles in German as well. It’s my dream to be able to work on what I enjoy most and you can help me get a little bit closer to this. I see profile pictures created with my drawings all over the web, and if only a small percentage of users considered making a donation, it would make a HUGE difference. Unfortunately single Paypal donations and ad banners don’t work as good as several years ago, so this is why I take this step now. Financial support means more updates in the future! And as a Patron you will get rewards like the possibility to see updates before they are published and to vote for what I should draw next. Check out the rewards on bottom of the Patreon page. And here is a video about how Patreon works.
I need YOUR help now! I am not good at promoting myself, so if you don’t support me at Patreon please spread the news by sharing the link. Many people have visited SP-Studio in the past and use the pictures I have drawn, but I cannot reach them without you. So this is the one time I ask you to share something and spread the word about my Patreon page. Thank you very much for your help!

Contest news (April)

April 13, 2015 2 Replies

Two winners? Yes! Congratulations to legobasher (Peter Cushing in Top Secret) and AMParsons29 (Charlie Chaplin)! They scored best in the last contets about famous comedians. Here you can see all submissions: SP-Studio contest 03/2015: Comedians / Hall of Fame.
Let’s play! This month the new contest is about TOYS. This is a free topic, which means you don’t have to show existing toys. Your picture just needs to have something to do with the topic. You can make a picture showing kids playing on the streets, about Santa’s toy factory or about sex toys. But of course you can also show famous brands like Lego bricks, Barbie dolls, Matchbox cars, Teddy bears or Tamagotchi. Register a nickname here and upload your picture to the contest gallery until April 20th. You can read more about how it works here. Good luck!

This is my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/janinahimmen

This is my Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/janinahimmen