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A Small Moment Together

Oh my gosh, I've been going through such an art block this month. I am so glad that I was able to draw this! The problem is that my creative juices have run dry, and I get restless and force myself to draw a lot. Honestly, a lot of the time, drawing ends up feeling like an obligation. But I realized that, when I'm not having fun drawing, my drawings turn out to be trash. And, of course, making a bunch of bad drawings does not help the creative juices nor my confidence in my art skills. So, in other words, I'll most likely post less. That way I can focus on things other than drawing. For example, I've been procrastinating on learning the guitar for three years. So I'm going to focus on playing my guitar and making sure I don't get burnt out with my art. I'll draw more once drawing is fun for me again.

Anyhow, I had a lot of fun making this drawing, and I'm happy with how it turned out. Happy Pride, everybody!

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Miscellaneous Doodles

Yesterday was a bad art day, so I decided to mess around with random brushes on my art app (Infinite Painter). Also, bonus:

This is part of the only drawing I could properly finish yesterday because I did most of the work on Thursday. If you want to see the full drawing, click here! Or you could just go to my blog as it should be under this post.

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Feeling Confident

I'm really proud of the anatomy of this drawing! It turned out so good! (Though, I think the arm might be a bit off.) I also really enjoyed rendering this one, too! (By the way, the necklace is based on a necklace I actually own. It might be hard to tell since I struggled with drawing something so small, but the necklace has a black cat jumping around a yellow crescent moon.)

Since I also posted this on Bluesky, I'm going to go ahead and add the link to my blog there. Link.

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Heather

Here's a doodle of one of my OCs. I made this on my design ref. for her. I thought this doodle was adorable, so I wanted to share it. She's from a story I'm calling "Mary Ann's Flowers Shop". She's the protagonist's little sister. She's actually going to have pink hair in the story's time frame, but I needed a reference with her natural hair color.

Edit: Today I set up an account on Bluesky and posted this drawing there, too. And then I immediately got suspended! The email I got said they thought I was spam. I think that happened because that was my second attempt at posting it. (I failed the first time 'cuz I didn't realize there was a character limit). I emailed them to explain that, so hopefully they'll fix that. If they don't, it's not the worst thing that's happened to me.

Second Edit: IT HAS BEEN FIXED! Here's the link to it: https://bsky.app/profile/themusicintrovert.bsky.social

I'm planning on posting only OC content on Bluesky. I'll still post OC stuff here, I'm just not posting Fanart on Bluesky.

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ISABEAU!!!

Here's my first (solo) drawing of the fluffy boy! He's just so cute! I had a lot of fun drawing him. I actually used a reference for this one because his design is a bit more complicated than Siffrin's. I decided to take a bit of creative liberty with his design, though. I wanted to make his hair fluffy, and I thought that freckles on his face would be cute. (Also, please ignore the color notes at the top left of the drawing. That's just for future reference.)

He looks kinda feminine, but that's probably because of the eyelashes. But he's keeping them! They look fabulous. Honestly, it probably just looks feminine because masculine characters in cartoonish art styles aren't given eyelashes. But SCREW THAT! GIVE MEN FABULOUS EYELASHES! EVERYONE HAS 'EM! SO WHY NOT?!

In all honesty, I really love how he turned out!

(Sidenote: You can look at my first drawing of Isabeau by clicking here! It features Isabeau and Siffrin dancing together.)

Edit: I know that all of the attention that recent posts have been getting are just because they're about ISAT, but I also would like to post some OC art. You can see an adorable doodle I did of one of my characters by clicking here.

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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the secret ending of the game In Stars and Time. Specifically, the ramblings underneath this comic mentions spoilers.)

When I made the first image, I felt like I wanted the facial expression to change. And that's how I ended up with a four panel comic page! I feel like this comic should have a page before it to give context for this scene, but did I do that?

No. The idea was that Loop had returned to their previous body and had encountered their family members from their timeline. Basically, their family members somehow managed to appear in the ISAT timeline and give Loop a heart attack. I love making content about Loop's past despite still not seeing nor achieving the secret ending. So, please refrain from sharing specific spoilers about the secret ending on this post.

This is just a short comic I made, so I'm not really planning on expanding on it. Just something I made on a whim. Also, sidenote, the third panel looks like it could be an album cover for some reason. I really like it! It's my favorite out of all of the panels.

(You know, somehow, I've managed to make sure not to draw any of Siffrin's family members in most of my posts. I should probably make a drawing with all of them together, eventually.)

Also, in case anyone is interested, I wrote my first fanfic on AO3 a couple days ago! It's called A Flowery Confession. Basically Siffrin attempts to confess to Isabeau after countless loops of disappointment. Unlike most of my posts on Tumbler, the writing actually flows very well! Apparently, writing Siffrin's perspective is easier for me. (Clicking on the fic's title takes you to the link, by the way.)

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Watching From Afar, Always Some Side-Character No One Cares to Search for...

There wasn't really a plan for this drawing that I had in mind. I was just messing around with this one. I felt like having a painter-y vibe for this. It gave me a lot more freedom than what I usually have. It was just a lot fun to do! I tried to figure out how the shadows would work, but I'm not too sure if they look right. For the light source for Siffrin, let's just say that the moon was really bright on this night and not that I put it there for no specific reason. I know that the game's art is black and white monochrome, but I wanted to use a purple monochrome instead. I had a lot of fun figuring out what hues to use.

Anyhow, here's the version without the air brush and here's the sketch concept:

Look! You can even see some birds and sailboats!

I liked drawing the birds. They were fun.

Okay, bye!

Edit: Today, I wrote my first ISAT fanfic on AO3! The writing in it flows a lot better than the writing in my posts, I promise. Check it out here: A Flowery Confession.

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This is just a doodle I did of Siffrin in a cute outfit.

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Waiting For Your Replacement

(Warning: This post contains content that has major spoilers for the secret ending of the game In Stars and Time)

This was a complicated drawing for me to make. I could only use three layers for this, so the line art had to be all in one layer. The bottom layer was the background color and Loop's color. The middle layer was Siffrin's color at 50% opacity. Honestly, the hardest part was doing Siffrin's color because Siffrin's line art is so muddled within Loop's line art. Of course, it didn't help that I decided to give them laced-up boots, but, in my defense, laced-up boots are just cool!

I also duplicated this drawing twice and changed it to just show Loop and Siffrin separately.

I really like how they turned out! Throughout the drawing process, I honestly couldn't tell if they looked good. It was in the ugly stage until I finished it. These two versions of the drawing have given me great relief because I can see that I did a good job drawing Loop and Siffrin.

You might notice that the background of the Siffrin version is a bit different. Since I was limited to three layers, I had to take out Loop's color layer.

....Which also included the background color, so I had to redo it on Siffrin's color layer. I should also mention that I actually redid the character line art on a different layer. I used two different colors for the original line art, and just erasing that thoroughly would've been a nightmare. Besides, I had to change Siffrin's line art to black anyway. I then erased the original character line art so that the background line art remained. Considering how shaky the tree's line art was, I didn't want to redo it.

Anyhow, that's all I've really got to say about this drawing. Despite this drawing containing spoilers for the secret ending, I still haven't gotten it nor seen what happens. I just know the basic gist. So, please refrain from sharing with me specific spoilers about it.

And on a somewhat unrelated note, this week I actually brought home the Siffrin bobblehead I made. I might post a picture of it here. But eh, it doesn't really look good. The clay looks wonky in places, though that is to be expected for my first time using it. The hair is the worst part because my art teacher left my bobblehead to dry before I fully finished it. But whatever, it's fine. It's kinda cute.

Anyhow, before I find a way to make this post longer, bye!

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Locked in Eternal Battle

Transcript: You can do this forever...

My favorite part of my art process is the color. Color can bring a piece to life, make it feel full. But...

It's hard to do that with a character that's just black and white! Since I've been mostly drawing Siffrin, my usual coloring process has become boring. Though, on the plus side, this makes me want to experiment more. I've been messing around with the tools in my art app (Infinite Painter) during my art process recently. That's how I got this piece. I used one of the charcoal tools for the shadows. I think it's called Glazed Vine. I don't remember what tool I used for the values on the cloak. It might have been the same tool, but I think it was different.

With using absolute black for Siffrin's design and the background, I had to outline the blacks with thin white line art. Though, with the lines being so thin, they were somewhat translucent. Whenever I had to use multiple strokes for a connected line, you could see everytime I lifted up my stylus. I tried to fix this by inking the lines multiple times. That fixed the problem, but that made the lines way too bright. So I looked at one of the lines that didn't need multiple attempts of line art, and I used my color picker on the line to get a light gray. Then I used the light grey to redo the bright white line art, and viola. Problem solved!

I had difficulty figuring out the pose and anatomy for this artwork. I probably should have searched up a reference, but meh. I think it turned out pretty good, anyways. I think I struggled with making the feet look like they're touching the ground, though. I suppose there could be more anatomy mistakes, but hey! Siffrin's cloak does a fantastic job at hiding any mistakes I could've made. Speaking of the cloak, I really like how it turned out! I think I did a good job with the cloak folds.

And that's basically all I have to say about this piece. Though, I want to mention that, for some reason, it's easier for me to draw anatomy and poses on paper than on my phone. I don't really know why that is. Maybe it's because I have more surface to draw on with my sketchbook?

Anyhow, I'll go ahead and add the initial sketch and a screenshot of my artwork in the middle of the coloring process.

I was originally planning on this piece being about Siffrin sacrificing himself for their friends, but I ended up changing that. I also had to change the hands. You can see that the hand holding Siffrin's dagger is wrong.

I added the mid-color screenshot because I just think it looks cool. It kinda reminds me of something that Julia from Drawfee would paint.

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Yawning Siffrin

I originally drew this in my sketchbook. I wanted to practice drawing anatomy. I think it turned out rather good. (I'm surprised at how well the hands and legs turned out!) The clothes are my version of the clothes Siffrin wears underneath his cloak, by the way. I didn't want to draw the cloak because it would cover most of the anatomy.

Other than the anatomy, I really like how the hair turned out! I've been drawing it to be fluffier. And longer. I didn't feel like drawing the black parts of their hair. Maybe this version of Siffrin has decided to grow out their hair to be darkless.

This drawing is difficult to see fully on mobile, so I'll put it next to the sketch below to make it smaller. That's the only way I know how to change its size. If you click on it, you can see it fully.

Hopefully that works.

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(This drawing contains spoilers for content revealed by the secret ending of In Stars and Time. You have been warned.)

These Shattered Pieces of Yourself

(You were happy once...aren't you? You were once an optimistic person. You once could laugh freely. Smiles were once true and painless. Lines were once improvised on the spot.)

(Oh, where is that person now? What would they think of you? What would they think of the actor that replaced them? Would they understand? Would they comfort you and show you the light that time stole from you?)

(...Or would they hate you and all that you've done…?)

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Happy Siffrin!

I just wanted to draw Siffrin happy. They're adorable!

Though, this is not the outcome I was originally planning with the initial sketch, but I'll post that drawing after this one. The next drawing does contain serious spoilers for the secret ending of the game. I actually haven't seen the secret ending, but I know of the general gist. I still trying to avoid spoilers of the actual scene itself, though.

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> Get back on the stage, Siffrin.

Probably the last merch idea I have for ISAT - a shaker charm! A lot of this is practice for other merch I make for other fandoms (since I table at cons and stuff), but I also plan on hosting a few giveaways for the ISAT fan merch I've made (all for personal use!) on my tumblr and bluesky!

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Loop is Trying to Take a Nap, Stardust!

This drawing is actually from today! I just decided I wanted to draw Loop sleeping on a high branch of the Favor Tree. This was my first time drawing them, too! I think they turned out good.

I tried to draw the weird shadow patterns that trees leaf underneath them (ha!). Though, I don't think I was able to capture that.

Also, this drawing made me have to draw Siffrin in perspective (from a bird's eye view, to be specific). I think it looks good! Perspective is definitely one of the things I have to practice drawing.

Originally, I was thinking that Loop was having nightmares. But now, it just looks like Siffrin is bothering Loop and not letting them sleep. Siffrin, you have a House to get through! Leave them alone!

Anyhow, this is my last post for tonight! Thank you for baring with me. Thank you to everyone who has already left hearts on my posts! I really appreciate it! Have a good morning, or afternoon, or night!

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Siffrin With Completely Black Hair

I don't have much to say about this drawing. I really enjoyed drawing the hair in this one, though. It has so many fun shapes! I drew him with his left eye bandaged because I wanted him to still be healing from losing his eye. For some reason, I kept imagining this was Siffrin as a tired college student who has just met Isabeau (off-screen). That's why he looks tired in this. Now that I'm thinking about it, him being tired could make sense game-wise. Suffering from losing an eye would be quite exhausting. (Small spoiler for an intersection between Siffrin and Isabeau↓)

Now I'm imagining they're looking up at Isabeau who is about to give them the eye patch he made for them. Anyhow, this was just fun for me to draw. I think Siffrin looks really nice in this drawing.

One more post of Siffrin to go!

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Dancing in the Dark, With You Between My Arms

YES! THE BOYFRIENDS! THE BABIES! THE SWEETHEARTS! THEY'RE HERE! (And yes, the title is a reference to a song by Ed Sheeran. I believe it's called "Perfect".)

This is, by far, the most interesting drawing I've done. For one thing, there's actually character poses. For another thing, two characters are actually interacting with each other! And it doesn't look bad! It looks natural! Yes!

I've realized that my most interesting drawings are made from my messiest sketches. I think I focus too much on trying to make the sketch look good, so I'm unable to get most of my ideas out. With this drawing, however, I really wanted to just get my idea out. I didn't focus on making it look good. I just focused on getting the idea across. This resulted in a very messy sketch of Siffrin and Isa dancing together at night. I loved the concept, so I made a refined sketch on a different layer. Actually, I tried to do the line art, but since the sketch was so messy, it just turned out looking like sketch that was a lot clearer than the original sketch. Using this refined sketch, I was able to draw the line art. (By the way, this scene is happening post-game.)

Here are the sketches for reference:

I spent some time coloring it. I added hints of purple on Siffrin's outfit because I wanted it to stand out a little bit from the stark-black sky. By the way, his outfit is based on Loop's design. I have no reasoning for this other than I just thought it was fun. Also! FUN FACT: I'm making a Siffrin bobblehead in my art class. I'm planning on painting Siffrin's cloak kinda like this outfit. (I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get away with just painting him with white paint, so I felt like this was a cool way to incorporate some color in his outfit.) I've already finished sculpting the clay, so I have to wait for it to dry or whatever. I really hope it doesn't blow up in the kiln. I'm really worried that I missed some air bubbles in the clay, so ha ha, that's another thing to give me anxiety! Okay, moving back onto the drawing!

I used the stars to experiment with lighting, and I think it turned out nice. Though, I wish I added more stars. I feel like that would've made the background look more natural.

By the way, this was my first time drawing Isabeau! I think he looks nice in this, but I did mess up his pants. For some reason, I didn't process that he wears striped pants. I don't know. I'm not even sure what the name of what I drew him wearing is. Eh, whatever, it was still fun to draw, albeit more complicated. Another fun fact: I've been drawing Siffrin from memory this whole time. I didn't want to look up references because I was afraid of seeing spoilers. The more I draw them, the more accurate they become. Also, I've spent a couple of minutes analyzing their design while I've been playing the game, so yeah, that helps. But I did need a reference for Isa! ....What? Don't judge me! His design is more complicated than Siffrin's!

Final Fun Fact for this drawing: Siffrin has a darker blush that Isabeau. Okay, bye!

(Onto my last two posts of Siffrin for tonight...)