Things I would change about AC

Dream Suite 

Dream Suite is one of my favourite features in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I only built it a few days ago but have spent the majority of my gaming time visiting lots of different towns. The only thing you can take away from a dream town are custom designs, everything else disappears when you return to your own town. 

The main thing I would change about it is I want to get more out of it, I want to be able to change my outfit for a start, even when I wear one of my patterns I still have no shoes. 

I would love to be able to order furniture, so many times I've gone to a dream town and seen an item which I have been hunting for for ages, and I have no way of getting it (It's such a tease!). Even if we had a limit of only a handful of items we are allowed to order, even if we could only order 2 items per dream, I would still love to see that become a feature.

Patterns that eat fruit and bells 

I have found this very annoying for a while now. If you have patterns near trees and rocks the bells and fruit will be abosrbed into the pattern - very annoying if you want to have lots of patterns around your town. It would be nice if patterns just acted like other squares.

Disappearing grass

Since this feature came out all it has done is cause stress - I have been spending a lot of time attempting to regrow my grass - I understand the idea behind it - it makes unique dirt paths, I get it, but I'm one of those people that run around my town like a headless chicken and I'd like to be able to do that without losing all my grass.

Problem Neighbours

Villagers can be a pain, they are allowed to place their house anywhere it seems - and that can be a pain when you have spent a long time making your dream town vision come true. I wish there was an option where you can choose to pick a spot where your villagers are allowed to live, that way you could put them all in a spot where they wouldn't mess up your town!

Tool box

I have an issue with the fact my tools take up so much room in my pockets, but you can guarantee when I put them away I will see a reason to have them with me. I think maybe a tool box would work out - where you could still pull them out using the arrows but you don't have to take up precious pocket space.

Grand opening of Club LOL

I was pretty excited to see Dr. Shrunk outside my house asking for my permission to open his new live venue "Club LOL" I said yes right away! I got all 6 signatures I needed.

It seemed to take forever for it to be built, that may or may not have been caused by Kicks being built around the same time, I'm not sure - anyway I didn't know if it was being built or not, no screen around the area, nothing. So I was very happy when Isabelle told me it had been opened today.

Club LOL opened on the 6th of September!

Damn I closed my eyes!

Looks a bit empty and bland, I hope it's not empty later!

The stage is pretty awesome I haven't seen a Gyroid lately

I gave Dr. Shrunk a cherry and he started doing a performance. :) (Cherries are my native fruit)

He gave me the Emotion "Anger" I'm excited about getting all the emotions! 

I'll be sure to go back later on today to see the live music!

Update!

So I went back later.....K.K. Slider is there...but no one else is here!!

Hopefully more people will turn up next time!

Animal Crossing: Kyra is the Mayor!

I became mayor of Pineford on the 16th of August.

Currently Kyra is living in a tent, but the upside is I actually got to choose the location instead of just getting given a random location or set locations like in the older games.

Sleeping in a tent isn't so bad but I only have a lantern at the moment, nothing to sleep on! 

For some reason I couldn't resist buying this item I just thought it was a funny/strange accessory!

ProMarkers by Letraset!

ProMarkers are Alcohol based permanent markers. Unlike other felt tips they do not feather up the paper. You can layer them to create shading, and can blend and overlay the colours. They offer a lot of artistic freedom. These pens need to be used on bleed proof paper as they will go through normal paper onto the surfaces underneath.

ProMarkers are good to use for cartoons, comics, drawing characters, people, animals, lots of uses. You can make clear crisp lines with them, they give a smooth look unlike other felt tip pens or pencils. The pens have a fine tip and a larger tip, you can also get fine tip pens to draw out lines, and a blender pen.


Left to right - Ruby showing small tip, Petrol Blue showing large tip, Blender pen & Fine tip pen.

Blending 

There are a few ways you can blend two colours together, alternately you can blend your shading of just one colour together. The easiest way I find to use the blending pen is to lay the lightest colour you want to blend down first, then colour over it with the blending pen.



Layer the second darker colour over the top in the places you want it and use the blending pen again over the top.

Overlaying 

If you wish to you can over lay colours. Depending on the colour under it the colours will be slightly different which is good if you want to mix colours. Try to test the colours on a separate sheet before putting it on your work - this way you will know what colour it will turn and how much layering you have to do.



In this second image I layered the colours showing next to it which colour I use - this will give you an idea of what to look out for when you layer colours yourself.

Shading

One of the things I really love about these pens is the ability to shade with them. You can build up several layers of shading. Bellow is an image with block colour (Using the colour "Blossom")



The next image uses one layer of shading.



Two layers of shading - leave a bit of time for drying between each layer - leave more time if you want the layers to look more defined,  leave less time if you want the layers to blend. (It's a good idea to test on a separate bit of paper how much time is needed)



Three layers of shading - you can build up several more layers.




I hope if you are really into art you consider trying ProMarkers, they are a fantastic tool, are easy to use and don't take long to get used to! If you want to buy some get onto Letraset's website :)

Counting sheep

Blue nose friends 11-14

011 Truffles the Pig

012 Cottonsocks the Sheep

013 Coco the Monkey

014 Konker the Hedgehog

Safari

Blue nose friends 7-10

007 Twiggy the Giraffe
008 Chip the Zebra
009 Rocky the Lion
010 Buster the Leopard

Starting point

Blue nose friends 1 through to 6

001 Patch the Dog

002 Kittywink the Cat

003 Blossom the Rabbit

004 Dilly the Duck

005 Toots the Elephant

006 Binky the Panda Bear