Would you like a custom NT thumbnail?

[downrightdude]

I love this idea! Seeing the custom thumbnails was such a kira yaba highlight for the NT!

*Charlie the llama awards bouquet*

[Carolyn]

WOAH. Twillie, Kat is gonna scream with joy. That legit looks like official site art (they both do, but this one especially!) Like ahhh so amazing!!

[Kat]

Apr 5, 2022 0:10:42 GMT -5 Twillie said:

Thumbnail for Kat's A Hero's Journey: It Takes Two finished! :3

Twillie, I know I screamed at you and thanked you a gajillion billion times but THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU IT IS PERFECT okay time to change my forum icon doop doop

I really missed the thrill of all the NT writers trying to look for their custom pics for the issue or waiting to see what they got, so I'm really excited with how this turned out! You got the action right, the lines are great, and oh man teen Kat would be over the moon.

[Twillie]

Got a couple more thumbnails done! First, one for an upcoming Meridell Day series by lovejoy1997

And another for Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff) 's recently concluded series, The Swashbuckling Ballad of a Vandagyre!

[Twillie]

Thumbnail for CrimsonShroud's Beneath the Haunted Woods!

[Twillie]

A couple more thumbnails for CrimsonShroud !

The Scorned House

The Lost Tomb of the Old Kingdom

[Carolyn]

Amazing work, Twillie! ^_^

And thank you so, so much for the one for Set's upcoming story (hopefully next week? It was held over but who knows when it'll be published ahaha).

[tarulliah]

Apr 1, 2022 18:07:06 GMT -5 Twillie said:

Custom thumbnails made by TNT used to be given to select Neopian Times entries, unique to the stories and characters within them, but it's been years since they were given and unlikely that they'll be coming back anytime soon. Understandable, given the work TNT has on their plates right now, but I feel like the excitement and novelty of having your own personal thumbnail is still possible with today's Neopian Times. Although technically not official Neopets art, I wanted to offer my own artistic services!

If you've got a story, series, article, or comic (anything at all really!) that you'd like a personalized thumbnail for, I'd be more than happy to create what you have in mind! I've done a couple before, like this series thumbnail for Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff) back from 2015, and most recently this thumbnail for a pending short story by Carolyn :

If interested, feel free to post on this thread or message me directly! This offer is free, so don't worry about paying or giving anything in return. I just want to help give people's stories that extra personal touch and hopefully bring back some of the fun of custom thumbnails! :3


Yes please!

[Twillie]

tarulliah Alrighty! :3 Is there a certain story you'd like a thumbnail for? And from there, is there any specific look for the thumbnail you'd like, or do you want it to be a surprise?

[tarulliah]

no, I am open to anything. and a surprise please!

[tarulliah]

although, my snowager story would be nice, I suppose. it's in this week's issue.

[Twillie]

Alrighty! I can check the story out and send a sketch your way soon, then~ :3 (also, to avoid double posting, you can use the edit button on posts to include additional information!)

[tarulliah]

ok, thank you so much!

[Kat]

Hey Twillie, any chance you can squeeze in another for me - I'm going to submit a series that will hopefully go through issue 1000. The real reason is that I want to make sure I'm there in the event an NT prize I still don't have is rereleased, and the profound shoehorned answer is that just as the series begins Rohane's arc as a mentor figure, I guess I've reached a point where I...can also be...a mentor figure for NT/creative comps? I guess???

If you're busy no worries. I plan to submit the series sometime after Underground.