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1 year ago

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 6

iJevin x Slime Rancher

A drawing of Minecraft youtuber iJevin on a light blue background. He is a happy looking blue slime person in a white hoodie, which looks like its made of a semi-transparent jelly. He is smiling and holding a bright orange flower. Above him is his name in a pink cartoonish font that also looks like jelly.

For iJevin I picked the video game Slime Rancher! Specifically, I drew Jevin in the style of the art in the Slimepedia from Slime Rancher. This one was a challenge because the slimes from the Slimepedia are just stylized blobs, so I had to take the design choices from that and imagine how it would translate to a humanoid character.

I chose this for Jevin because, well, slime, but also because Slime Rancher is a very cute, cozy game and I thought that aligned well with his build for this season. The game is like a cottage core farming sim but on another planet and with little slime creatures instead of farm animals. If you would like to learn more about Slime Rancher and see my style references, please keep reading below the cut! (And also, keep up the donations to Gamer's Outreach! If we get to $300, belmarzi will do a 20secs of animatic!)

Slime Rancher is one of those games you play when you just want to do something that makes you smile. It is an incredibly cute farming sim where you are tasked with catching, caring for, and protecting a collection of adorable slime creatures. As you progress in the game, you unlock new areas and meet new slimes, which are added to your in-game encyclopedia called the Slimepedia. The art in this encyclopedia is so charming that I decided to base Jevin on that instead on how the slimes appear in the game. Plus, I wanted to avoid doing 3D characters. When you feed the slimes, they produce colorful gems called plorts (which are 100% just slime poop) that you can sell in order to buy upgrades to expand your farm and collect new slimes.

I could play this game for hours and hours. From the adorable aesthetics and charming lore to the relaxing gameplay and soundtrack, Slime Rancher is just joyful through and through.

Style references

There is a group of colorful slime blobs with cartoon faces. From left to right they are a blob that looks like a succulent, a blob of honey, a pink blob, a green radioactive blob, and a blob which looks like a puddle of water.   They are floating on a background that looks like a desert. The name ''Slime Rancher'' is above their heads in a pink jelly-like font.

Various slimes as they appear in the Slimepedia

A large, smiling cartoon man dressed in green with blue overalls. He looks like a farmer of some kind and has a very round head, like an egg that is lying on its side.

Slime Rancher also has human characters - I used Ogden here as the main reference for Jevin's shape

The words Slime Rancher written in a pink, cartoonish font that appears to have the texture of jelly. The dot of the ''i'' in ''Slime'' looks like a smiling pink slime blob creature.

Slime Rancher title design


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