Welcome to the first devlog for Cryptic Creek!

Since this is the first game that I am actually creating from start to finish all by myself, I thought it might be nice to start getting into the habit of keeping track of my illustrative work week to week.

This means anyone who's interested will be getting little sneak peeks of what I have in store!

No spoilers, I promise!

Rough Week By Week Schedule (in no particular order):
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Sketch Full Body Characters (4) 
    Choose Pose per character Value + Color Studies 
    Height Lineup  
Cleaned Full Body 
    Lined and Color 
    Costume Changes??? 
    Format Character Sheets  
Expressions/Mouth Charts 
    2 Heads per Character (Lined) 
    Mouth Charts  
Exterior Sketches Part 1 (2 Basic, 2 Architecture) 
    3 thumbs per Location (12 Total) 
    1 Cleaned Line + Greyscale per Location (4 Total)   
Exterior Sketches Part 2 (2 Basic, 2 Architecture) 
    3 thumbs per Location (12 Total) 
    1 Cleaned Line + Greyscale per Location (4 Total)  
Interior of Cabin Kitchen 
    3 Thumbs 
    1 Cleaned Line + Greyscale 
Living Room 
    3 Thumbs 
    1 Cleaned Line + Greyscale  
Prop Design Part 1 
    Cabinet 
    Sink + Window 
    Old TV + TV Stand 
    Mirror  
Prop Design Part 2: Maaappp 
    Camp Layout 
    Map Design Folded + Opened 
Start Screen    
    Thumbs, Sketch, Color  
UI Designs 
    Options, Save Slots, Text box 
Game Mockups
    IndieGoGo Campaign?
BEGINNING OF PRODUCTION

For a basic overview of this visual novel game, it is a half cryptid dating game, half mystery? It's difficult to explain without giving too much away, but I do recommend you look at the tags on the game page to make sure you're in the right place.  And while you're there, read over the synopsis! You'll thank me later since it gives quite a bit of context to my devlog illustrations.

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If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you will recognize some of the characters that I am designing for this story that I am telling.

If you don't follow me... then here are my links to instagram and twitter just for you <3

Anyway, without further ado... I give you this weeks progress!

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As an illustrator first, whenever I design for a project, I always start with the characters. After all, especially with visual novels, the characters are what the player will be getting attached to the most when they are immersed in this world.

This game will have a full roster of 8 characters (6 of which are romance-able) but I am starting off with the 4 most important characters that affect the plotline.

Their poses are meant to effortlessly display the personalities of each: cheerful, grouchy, mature, and mischievous.

Firstly, I focused on tightening up their silhouettes in greyscale to ensure clean designs before moving on to some color comps. 

Finally I tightened up the designs by polishing the lines and tweaking the colors a bit more... 

We shall keep the final product a secret until later though, so stay tuned~

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If you're interested, stick around and next week, I will be working on starting some of their expressions and mouth charts for the in-game dialogue