Topic

Artist Skill

I think it would be fun to have an artist skill that would be an expansion on penpersonship. Once you learn the skill, you could by "crayons" and get a piece of paper. When you click on the crayons a little drawing window would pop up where you could select a color and draw lines with your mouse to make a picture (just a really basic flash drawing program). The picture would then appear on the note. You could give notes to people or leave them on the street. You could use this to make a treasure map or just draw a picture. 
 
Once houses are customizable you'd use the skill to draw on canvas and make pictures to hang in your house. You could sell them to others and make a living as an artist. Perhaps in the future you could also decorate t-shirts with this skill. Imagine making a design, saving it, and then making 10 t-shirts with it. You could have group t-shirts! 

Posted 19 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Awesome idea.
    Posted 19 months ago by SQUIRT Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 from me - I am crap at art but love this idea of having crayon drawings on my walls.  My daughter (age 4 - so am careful) loves to help me play the game - it would be lovely to let her do the crayons pictures and place them on my house wall :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Accy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is great! +1's all around. Especially being able to have the art in your house and even making a living painting and designing clothes.
    Posted 19 months ago by That Kid Tyler Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, I'd love to be able to 'Graffiti', draw on a tree, draw a picture in the dirt, paint on the walls...

    Though I'd imagine this skill could get abused by potty-mouths :S
    Posted 19 months ago by Kimbot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1  - creative ideas FrankenPaula
    Posted 19 months ago by Sayuri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • penises!
    Posted 19 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • but seriously I'd love this. maybe make it a subscriber only thing to cut down on the penises a little.
    Posted 19 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd just go round turning the Penises into Elephants instead.
    Posted 19 months ago by Kimbot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • or swastikas for that matter. Striatic, I think at some point the devs need to decide what to do about the free expression for all vs. profanity & inappropriate language/symbols issue. I don't think it should stop them from developing features that would be fun for most players, because of fear of inappropriate behavior from a few players. In the case of a feature like this, I suppose the paintings could be restricted to private homes or to group halls (and eventually stores if those get implemented). As a player, you could always choose to stop visiting a home if you don't like the "art" that's on display.
    Posted 19 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 This is a great idea and I've actually expanded on it! please let me know what yall think!
    Posted 17 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this idea so much, especially for decorating homes and for notes.... I've been wondering about the censorship issue too. I think, with text, it would be easier for the devs to address disruptive, innapropriate, bullying behavior (although it's never easy). Visual art is a language, but not everyone agrees on the meaning of the vocabulary...
    I would really love an art skill tree...
    Posted 17 months ago by sakmet Subscriber! | Permalink