This was actually the first FAITH piece I started, the first thing I wanted to draw. But I was stuck for a few days and honestly it looked shit during the process.
I still struggle with realism a lot, result of years of unpleasant training. I often find myself thinking about the rules of the physical world so much that it kills the picture. There's also motivation of people-pleasing in it to me that is hard to get rid of.
When doing this one it felt very much like I'm being sucked into that hole again. But I decided not to look up references and accept things that look off. It's still not there, of course, but I try to take small steps away from that thinking. I want to remember why FAITH attracted me is it created such fear with such simple graphics, there's never the need to tell everything.
I didn't like the process at all, but I always try to finish every piece I started even though it feels like shit, and I'm glad I did. It's a bit less shit so I could also feel a tiny bit less shit about myself.
been wanting to make NITW fanart for a while now, i dont rly talk abt my love for this game much, but this particular speech means so much to me, it helped me deal with grief and fear of death and change, god i love it sm and mae is one of my favourite characters ever
EDIT:
since tumbr obliterated the quality of this one here are some close ups
If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem.
I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers ‘hear’ the words through images.
I won’t lie to you, FAITH fans. What started as a redraw of the New Blood Interactive vday card this gave me intense psychic damage and also a lot of opened tabs on how to draw elbows