Holiday Items + New Skill-Related Paintings! 🎄 (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Chloe here with a special Holiday Patreon post!

Today, I’m excited to showcase some new items we recently created so that Paras can celebrate winter festivities. I hope this will get you in a festive spirit! At the end, I also have a little extra content feature for the game’s painting skill. Please do not share this post, this is for patrons only!

Holiday Items

This is the house that I created to celebrate the holidays in Paralives! Come on in!

But before that, let’s take a look at our festive outdoor decor! We have illuminated candy canes, little cedars, a wreath, a friendly snowperson, and this homemade deer! Are those wooden deer sculptures only a thing in Northern America?

 What better than a fireplace to stay cozy during the holidays? (Unless you are from the Southern Hemisphere, in which case, you might want to avoid the fireplace!)

Around the mantle, you can find some new objects, as well as older ones that have been remade for the occasion. The Nutcracker certainly gained a lot of detail since our oldest Holiday video.

Léa revamped our tree to have beautiful lights, ornaments, and shiny bows! It turned out great! You will also have options to have the ornaments without the bows, or only the lights.

Aside from the little gingerbread fellow you may have noticed on the armchair, I’ve also created new festive pillows! A fluffy candy cane and snowflake are the perfect accents to a living room for the holidays.

Paras will also get to celebrate by wearing iconic red hats!

Join us at the table, as our moose friend watches over our meal!

Except, oh no! I forgot to cook up a meal, we’ve only baked some yummy cookies! ٭(•﹏•)* We’ve added some gingerbread cookies (and a gingerbread house, which is only decor and not a food item in this case!), holly cookies, and reindeer cookies. Léa also whipped up a tasty-looking hot chocolate. 

Skill Paintings

Recently, I’ve decided to blast through as many paintings as possible that are required for the in-game skill. Take a look at some of the new creations your Paras may end up creating!

 These are new studies your Para can sketch up. From left to right, we have beginner, intermediate, and expert artworks. Would painting a realistic human elicit some sort of existential questioning in our dear Paras? Who knows!

A little insight into the skill level classification: while you may think the eye looks good and should be expert, we thought rendering eyes is always the first thing artists learn to do (we are guilty of this!) and so, therefore, we decided to put it in intermediate! It’s a bit hard to decide the cutoff point between the skill levels sometimes.

 Some new contemporary artworks, the ones on the left being intermediate level and the ones on the right being expert. Contemporary art is quite tricky but fun, as you have to turn your perspective of art on its head and see things with a tinge of cynicism!

 Our new abstract paintings, from left to right, beginner, intermediate, and expert. Sometimes, Paras may recreate artworks they did previously, but now with a higher level of skill. Can you spot the difference between the two yellow circles?

 Additions to the portrait catalogue. The Portrait style is only available for intermediate skill level and higher. We explore different styles through the portraits, such as pointillism or classical!

Lastly, some new impressionist paintings. The Impressionism style is only available for expert painters! The works are quite painterly and peaceful, don’t you think?

A lot of Para Chloes were sacrificed in the making of all the paintings we saw during today’s gallery tour. With a peek at new Illustrative paintings, of course.

That’s all for today folks, I hope you enjoyed today’s post! What other holiday items would you like to see in the game? Are there some styles of paintings you’d like us to include in the game?

Have a great weekend and awesome holidays!

Chloe (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)