Love the new sketch pad....BUT....

Regarding the first point...a sketch is not a painting, any artist will tell you that, even one whose medium of choice IS sketching. No reason they couldn't make the daily task be an either or thing though, of course. . . I just wanted to nit pick for the sake of artistic integrity.

Regarding #2...I so agree. I hate toddlers doing it with the Wabbit Tablet too. Like you said, makes sense...but it still drives me nuts.
I've been watching for a mod to correct the behaviour with the sketch pad...but haven't seen one yet.

"Stormkeep;c-16869637" wrote:
Regarding the first point...a sketch is not a painting, any artist will tell you that, even one whose medium of choice IS sketching. No reason they couldn't make the daily task be an either or thing though, of course. . . I just wanted to nit pick for the sake of artistic integrity.

Regarding #2...I so agree. I hate toddlers doing it with the Wabbit Tablet too. Like you said, makes sense...but it still drives me nuts.
I've been watching for a mod to correct the behaviour with the sketch pad...but haven't seen one yet.

Oh, you beat me to it @Stormkeep. A sketch pad is for sketches as in generally pencil, or even pastels (a refined chalk).

I have not tried the sketchpad (or the Style Influencer career yet), but I should since a lot of my Sims are artists. Regarding the fact it doesn't count toward the Painter career task, I agree with @Stormkeep it would be cool if they could update it to say 'Paint or Sketch'. I get a sketch isn't a fully completed painting, so maybe your Sim would have to do more sketches than paintings to fulfill the task or something? Just an idea... *shrugs* :)

For one thing the digital pad is basically a graphic tablet like a portable wacom, I would argue digital art is a different set of skills then traditional art in real life but I think in the end it should count toward create paintings tasks unless they want to have it count as a different skill like yoga makes your sims fitness improve but doesn't bring up the fitness skill. for another thing, I think it should have a practice drawing interaction that allows you to focus your sim on improving art skill similar to practice writing on the computers

Hello
You may like to post feeback on the first issue on this AHQ EA thread
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Digital-Sketch-Pad-not-fulfilling-Painter-Aspiration-Career/m-p/7180422#M77353

This thread refers to the second issue .
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-reset-on-several-interactions-food-homework-reading/m-p/7166222#M75954
If there is a pool on the lot, try editing it and see if that helps.

"Stormkeep;c-16869637" wrote:
Regarding the first point...a sketch is not a painting, any artist will tell you that, even one whose medium of choice IS sketching. No reason they couldn't make the daily task be an either or thing though, of course. . . I just wanted to nit pick for the sake of artistic integrity.

Regarding #2...I so agree. I hate toddlers doing it with the Wabbit Tablet too. Like you said, makes sense...but it still drives me nuts.
I've been watching for a mod to correct the behaviour with the sketch pad...but haven't seen one yet.

I get that -- but you can paint full paintings on the electronic sketchpad (same ones you can on the easel, with the addition of "sketch impression" I think. So it's more an electronic easel. It produces a full painting which automatically goes into the inventory (if you want to choose whether to sell to a collector or art gallery you have to drag it to an empty wall and chooks from there).

"rosemow;c-16869700" wrote:
Hello
You may like to post feeback on the first issue on this AHQ EA thread
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Digital-Sketch-Pad-not-fulfilling-Painter-Aspiration-Career/m-p/7180422#M77353

This thread refers to the second issue .
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-reset-on-several-interactions-food-homework-reading/m-p/7166222#M75954
If there is a pool on the lot, try editing it and see if that helps.

I hit the Me Too for the first one -- thanks. Not quite what I'm hitting on the second one -- they don't reset, they start the painting then set down the tablet; if outside they'll put it on the ground or the picnic table, or if inside they'll often put it on a table or the fireplace mantel. And I have no pool on my home lot which is where it tends to happen.

@stilljustme2, Okay...that's very cool. I have prints of original artwork on my wall IRL that were 'painted' digitally. My favorite art piece that I own is by an artist that does everything digitally, so it totally makes sense.

Definitely looking forward to playing with that in game. I wasn't aware that the sketchpad I've heard people talk about for the game was digital.