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The air crackles with freedom

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A bit late but I learned that Outer Wilds and Splatoon both released on May 28th, so I wanted to celebrate them ::)

Happy birthday to the games that altered my brain chemistry!! <3

Textless version below:

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Five Fragments Of Curiosity

Outer Wilds and Rain World crossover!! I wanted to draw a certain beloved Outer Wilds character but in the style of the Ancients' mural from Rain World ::)

Bonus:

Version where her eyes aren't obscured.

And for fun, I made an Echo version of her

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Five Fragments Of Curiosity

Outer Wilds and Rain World crossover!! I wanted to draw a certain beloved Outer Wilds character but in the style of the Ancients' mural from Rain World ::)

Bonus:

Version where her eyes aren't obscured.

And for fun, I made an Echo version of her

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Hornet Silksong I love youuuu

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🌻Introducing, Helianthus! But you can call him Helian •:) My darling, sun boy whom I love dearly...

He's a modern Nomai (but not one from the far future/in-game present day. Just far enough in the future that Escall's clan became a legend), and member of Robur's clan.

He has a sunny personality, very warm and gentle, and cares deeply for his loved ones and his clan. While he studies entomology, Helian's other interests consist of music and cooking or baking! As feeding his clanmates when possible is his way of showing he cares!

More of his backstory under the cut :D

The Accident refers to an incident where the clan's Vessel had messed up their warp, resulting in them being spat out in an astroid field, heavily damaging the Vessel.

Helian was only a toddler during the time of this event, having to evacuate to the Vessel's escape pods with his parents, Soleiro and Gladiolus. However, during the evacuation, Helian had tripped over and fell, and Gladiolus went to help him up.

Unfortunately, the astroid strikes caused the integrity of the Vessel to diminish greatly and Gladiolus sacrificed himself to save Helian from getting crushed by the rubble. Only Helian and Soleiro survived, out of the three.

Helian deals with a lot of grief and guilt from the ordeal, having only the charm that Gladiolus wore to remember him by. With the help and support of his fellow clan members, and the Nomai who assisted the clan, Helian would one day find it in him to realize that what happened wasn't his fault and relieve himself of the guilt.

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Character commission for a client on Discord!

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Rotates these two goats in my head

So! I don't believe I've posted about these two yet...

This is Soleiro (she/they) and Gladiolus (he/him)! Parents of Helian and sweet lovebirds up until an accident that took Gladiolus' life, and Soleiro does not handle his death well.

These drawings take place when the two were younger and were still only dating. Based on this screenshot hehe:

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Campfire Fest late submission - Day 3 Longing

A little comic based on Marl's dialogue when you talk to em ::)

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Hesitation...

Campfire Fest 2025 Day 5 - Warp Core

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Mustered enough energy to draw at least one thing for campfire fest this year. I think about how tense it must've been for Hatchling to make the decision to pull the plug on the ATP and race to the Vessel. The decision being up to them.

They just have to take out the warp core.

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Lumiiii my daughter, starry girl cosmically linked with all your incarnations... How I missed you...

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Fateful Encounter...

Last month, at around April 10th, I decided to revisit an old project I started months prior which was to polish up a test sketch of a comic page about Lucy encountering Lumi in the dreamspace. And after slowly making progress on this, I'm finally finished with this!

I'm gonna leave some artist notes under the read more, but overall I'm super proud of how this turned out!! This is pretty much my first serious attempt at making comics in general so this has been a very interesting learning experience!

Artist notes: So this is what the original sketch for this whole thing was. It was just me scribbling out a scene I had in my head for Startrails that I wanted to put on paper:

This I'd say was made around 2020-2021 ish. At the time, I didn't really do much with it. Until several months ago, I thought of trying to redraw this page and expand upon it.

But my first attempt at doing this didn't quite lead anywhere. I barely got through the thumbnailing process and just gave up bc I lost motivation (and life/work stuff was Happening so yea I had to put this aside as I figured stuff out). Here's the first draft of the thumbnails:

It was just two pages at the time and was pretty simple. I left this project sitting in my files for a while until I one day just, started binging videos from Thestarfishface on YouTube, primarily her webcomic guide videos. And I decided I'd give this project another go.

It was here where I began making a second draft of the thumbnails and this was what I had to work with:

I wanted to experiment with the panels and get funky with the compositions this time around. The 2 page draft expanded to a 3 page thing. But I thought it would've been better if I added one more page at the end with Lucy waking up as a conclusion to wrap this whole thing together.

And in the middle of working on page 3, my friend had suggested to do a an impact frame page, which I hadn't considered during the thumbnailing, so 4 pages became 5. And this was the result!

I posted the pages as I finished them onto my deviantart so that's where a lot of my thoughts were journaled as I went along dfjsdh. To summarize my ramblings there, this project was a very fun (and a bit frustrating) learning experience! I'm hoping to keep practicing and improving my workflow, and hopefully one day make Startrails a full fledged webcomic :')

Additional ramblings:

The structure that Lucy finds Lumi in is inspired by an orrery.

For page 5, I initially didn't plan for much dialogue but as I drew it, it felt just a liiiitle bit empty, so I kinda just threw in some dialogue for Mira. But bc I was already in the inking process (and I just wanted to have this project completed), I didn't redo the page to even include Mira in it. So Mira's just out of frame sdfjskdh. If I had more time and energy to keep this up, I'd have made a revision of the page so I could include her.

This experience has taught me that I could seriously work on my rendering process a bit more, and that my layer management is just atrocious sdkfjksdfh

This has also taught me that while Medibang has the tools needed for me to draw these pages just fine, it also lacks some stuff that I personally need if I were to do a longer project like this. So I'll be experimenting with CSP next!

The dialogue throughout this whole thing wasn't all that planned out- I really just stuck close to what the initial doodle had which probably wasn't the best idea bc I just have like, 2 pages of Lucy's awkward sounding dialogue aaaa. I might do something a bit more dialogue heavy to help improve this skill next time.

Anyway, thank you for reading through my 1 am ramblings on this little project of mine shdkjhks

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Hello! I'm Xannabelle (she/they), some call me Xanna and welcome to my artblog! I'm a multi fandom, hobbyist illustrator! (currently rotating Outer Wilds in my head).

I draw whatever interests me, though art is slow bc I have a full time job. So please bear with me ^^;

I'm also working on a story that I call Startrails, that I'm hoping to make into a webcomic one day!

Please ask permission and credit me properly if you want to repost my art, thank you.

Blog directory:

Art tag: #xan draws

OC tag: #oc lobby

Story tag: #Startrails

Other blogs/socials:

Outer Wilds sideblog: @outersyourwilds (Warning: reblogged spoilers are untagged)

Bluesky (new): Spacey-xannabelle

Artfight: Spacey-Xan

DeviantArt (semi active): Spacey-xannabelle

Discord: spaceyxannabelle

Interests:

★ Hollow Knight ★

★ Outer Wilds ★

Rain World

Splatoon

Pokémon

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Stains of regret

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if you draw or write or craft, remember to be your own audience

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Traitorous Vessel. Sealed away along with the accursed Light.

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Ooo boy how do I begin to explain this hdfgjdg-

Basically! Hollow knight and Outer Wilds DLC crossover of sorts!! Me being very normal about HK and Outer wilds, I noticed some similarities between THK and Pris. So I thought it'd be fun to turn Pris into a vessel akin to THK itself!

Major spoilers for Outer Wilds and Hollow Knight under the cut! It's probably not that coherent but I just wanted to spew my thoughts

(Noting for those unfamiliar with Outer Wilds, I recommend playing the game before continuing bc the game is very knowledge based and knowing anything may change how you interact or perceive the game)

Both THK and Prisoner being sealed away in darkness for eternity... One as a sacrifice for its kingdom while the other as punishment for betraying their kind.

Their homes long gone or stuck in perpetual darkness (Hallownest being in a stasis and the whole timeloop business in Outer Wilds).

Both characters forced to "live" with the consequences of the decisions made by themselves or by the people around them. Never knowing if they'll ever find closure

And by the end, they do find closure. Thanks to a little friend.

Both are freed from their eternal prisons, both can finally die knowing they can finally be at peace.

The Dream No More ending of HK and the farewell vision Prisoner leaves you.... The cycle is finally broken. The shades can finally rest now that Radiance is gone, and Prisoner's vision features them going into a sunrise like *bursts into tears...* That fucks me UPPPP........

Poor sealed fellas who deserve all the good in the world and who deserve to REST.....

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Traitorous Vessel. Sealed away along with the accursed Light.

----

Ooo boy how do I begin to explain this hdfgjdg-

Basically! Hollow knight and Outer Wilds DLC crossover of sorts!! Me being very normal about HK and Outer wilds, I noticed some similarities between THK and Pris. So I thought it'd be fun to turn Pris into a vessel akin to THK itself!

Major spoilers for Outer Wilds and Hollow Knight under the cut! It's probably not that coherent but I just wanted to spew my thoughts

(Noting for those unfamiliar with Outer Wilds, I recommend playing the game before continuing bc the game is very knowledge based and knowing anything may change how you interact or perceive the game)

Both THK and Prisoner being sealed away in darkness for eternity... One as a sacrifice for its kingdom while the other as punishment for betraying their kind.

Their homes long gone or stuck in perpetual darkness (Hallownest being in a stasis and the whole timeloop business in Outer Wilds).

Both characters forced to "live" with the consequences of the decisions made by themselves or by the people around them. Never knowing if they'll ever find closure

And by the end, they do find closure. Thanks to a little friend.

Both are freed from their eternal prisons, both can finally die knowing they can finally be at peace.

The Dream No More ending of HK and the farewell vision Prisoner leaves you.... The cycle is finally broken. The shades can finally rest now that Radiance is gone, and Prisoner's vision features them going into a sunrise like *bursts into tears...* That fucks me UPPPP........

Poor sealed fellas who deserve all the good in the world and who deserve to REST.....