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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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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...)

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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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Siffrin Without His Cloak

Honestly, I made this drawing as a clothing reference for myself. I wasn't originally planning on posting it (hence my offline signature), but I really liked how this drawing turned out and wanted to share it. The anatomy is quite nice as well. I've been trying to force myself to practice drawing anatomy instead of just drawing characters from the shoulders up. Though, I haven't drawn a full body reference of Siffrin. (Nooo, I'm not avoiding doing that. I have no idea what you're talking about!) Also, the star necklace thing is just part of an under outfit. This is obviously a non-canon design; it's just how I like to imagine their outfit.

This drawing is actually part of a group of three drawings. The first drawing I did was the under outfit. Then, after I copied the drawing, I drew the clothes from this drawing over it. The final drawing is just Siffrin's cloak covering up all the hard work I did. I'm not a huge fan of how the other drawings turned out, so I'm not posting those. I mean, the first drawing is meh. The anatomy looks a bit off in it. In the last drawing, I could not draw Siffrin's hat for the life of me. It's really not great. Ugh.

Nonetheless, I love how this drawing turned out. I think that the outfit turned out rather cute. It just looks nice. Also, whenever I'm working on drawings, I like looking at how each layer looks individually. I think this image has a lot of good shapes, and I think that this image of just the color layer really shows that:

I think a design is good when the color itself tells how the design should look, you know. Anyhow, I have three more drawings of Siffrin left to post today, so bye!

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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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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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You're Back

Okay, I don't have much to say about this drawing. Usually, I like to talk about my process and critique my art, but I didn't really experiment with this one. Though, I did force myself to work on anatomy, so that's good. Also, I'm realizing that past me didn't really know how Siffrin's hair works. Honestly, the white part of his hair is probably shorter than his black hair. The white parts might also be longer at the sides. I still don't know, to be honest.

By the way, the date on the drawing is wrong. It was finished in March, not February. I made this drawing on the same day I made the blended version of this drawing of Siffrin (which is in my previous post). I'm tired, but I'm going to post like three more drawing of Siffrin, so bare with me.

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Siffrin Does Not Look Fine

Okay, so I was trying something new with the coloring. I was using flat colors (as in unblended colors) to represent lighting, though I blended the colors in his eye. I rather quite liked how this piece turned out. It's pretty in a messy way. But poor Siffrin isn't having a great time at all! They're really not fine. Anyhow! As I was working on this drawing, at some point, I thought that the color layer looked rather quite......well, creepy. I'll be adding a screenshot I took while I was working on that below along with a second version of the original drawing. The second version is where I used my colorless blender tool on my base colors since I figured that would work out well. If I continue blending colors, I'd like to have both versions to see what I need to do as a reference, you know.

You should be able to click on the individual images to see them on a bigger scale.

Yeah, I wasn't kidding when I said the color layer looks very creepy. Anyhow, the blending on the second version turned out quite nice, I think. It added a lot of depth to the hair, but I had a lot of trouble with rest of Frin's body. The face was the most difficult for me to blend. The marker kept running into parts of the drawing I did not want it to touch!

By the way, if you happen to be one of the few people following me, I'm sorry because I have a bunch of drawing saved up that I'm posting today. Sorry about the post overload that's about to happen. On that note, I doubt I'll put too much writing on those posts because it would exhausting to do that much writing in such a short timeframe. Bye!

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Siffrin Close Up

I'VE FINISHED THE GAME! FINISHED IT THIS PREVIOUS FRIDAY! IT WAS AMAZING! I WON'T GIVE ANY SPOILERS, THOUGH. BUT NOW, I'M REPLAYING THE GAME BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE - THERE'S A SECRET ENDING! When I finished the game, I immediately began watching animatics/animations that I had saved up. But then I saw a spoiler warning about the secret ending. Since I really want to get this ending, I immediately began the game again not even a hour after I finished it. I'm already back in Act 3, but I forgot how long Act 3 is. Though, I'm realizing there's a lot of things I missed in my first playthrough, so I'm still having fun.

Anyhow, onto the drawing. As you can probably tell, I'm better at drawing characters from the shoulder up (honestly, I draw characters from their shoulders up way too much). In this drawing, I was able to do more experimentation with Siffrin's design. I was able to practice drawing faces/head structures. With my previous drawings, the head was too small for me to really do a lot with it. I better at drawing things at a bigger scale at the moment.

I think I'm finally getting a hang of drawing Siffrin's hair. I really love how it looks! It's so fluffy! I think the hair in my other drawings feels too stiff, but the hair in this one feels more free.

I decided I wanted to give Siffrin an eye bag. Considering how exhausted he is, I decided it fit. I mean, Frin has been told they look as though they haven't slept in weeks. So, yeah.

My art app has a colorless blender marker, so I used that for the eye bag. I decided I wanted to experiment a bit more with blending, so I did that for a few of the shadows.

With the angle I was drawing from, I figured we would be able to see the sides of Siffrin's pins. I tried to make them look three-dimensional. I might've made them have too much depth, though. They should probably be thinner. I considered adding a shine to them, but it didn't look right considering how much white is surrounding them.

With all that in mind, I think this is my favorite drawing of Siffrin that I've done. I feel as though this one does the best job at capturing Siffrin's personality. I'm getting closer to a design for them in my art style. It's more stylized and feels more natural. My other drawings of Siffrin feel a bit forced. All in all, I think that I'm getting better at drawing them!

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Two Versions of a Drawing of Siffrin I Did:

Here's the finished product, but I also like the drawing without the effect over it.

So here's this version. I think I like this drawing (both versions) more than my previous Sif drawing. This one has a more unique pose and expression. (My idea was that Siffrin was jumping and about to attack.) I also put more work towards the background. It took me quite a while to draw the clocks. The numbers look a bit cramped, but I do not have the patience to fix that. I used stars as the clock handles to represent that time isn't truly passing. I think I put more work/creativity into this drawing, so I proud of myself for that. I want to add more abstract ideas/concepts in my drawings, so I think this is a good starting point.

Unlike my previous drawing, I drew Frin's cloak correctly. Did I draw the dagger correctly this time? Ha! Nooo. Of course not. Anyhow, I still haven't finished the game, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers. I might be on Tumbler less, in other words.

You can check out my previous Siffrin drawing here.

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The Shooting Star

Here's my first post (and first finished drawing) of the year. I spent a long time on the background, and I think I did a good job. This was a very experimental piece. First off, I'm using a new art app. I use to use a very outdated Flipaclip to make my drawings, but, when I got my new phone, I could only get the newest version of Flipaclip. Yeah, I absolutely hate it now. I've started using Infinite Painter instead, so my drawings are going to look a bit different now. I was trying to experiment with a pose and with the lighting of the piece. I've been trying to learn anatomy, so I've trying to draw more poses. I also want to get better at lighting in my drawings, so I've been adding light sources to my art. Overall, I really liked how this piece turned out.

Check out my previous drawing of Mabel!

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Mabel in a Stawberry Sweater

Just a doodle I did of Mabel. I think she might actually have a sweater like this, but I don't remember for sure.

Check out my other Mabel drawing! The artstyle looks different from this piece because I don't have definate artstyle, yet.

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Siffrin

I've been playing a lot of In Stars and Time recently. I haven't finished the game, yet, but I have finished Act 3. As I've been drawing Siffrin, I've realized that their cloak is rather confusing. For the most part, it's depicted as not having sleeves, but, in some scenes, it definitely has sleeves! I've decided that the cloak has been crafted to have sleeves whenever the wearer needs to have sleeves. Anyhow, I tried to make a full-body drawing of them. I'll admit that the pose is kinda boring. I have to practice drawing more poses. Though, I think I did a pretty good job with the anatomy. Also, I couldn't really figure out the expression on his face, but whatever. Despite that, I had fun making this drawing, and I might post more drawings of this game as I get farther in it.

Edit: I have been informed that Siffrin's cloak canonically has no sleeves! So this drawing can be considered inaccurate. (Also, thank you for ignoring that I definitely drew Siffrin's dagger wrong.)

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Little Stans

This was my first time drawing the little Stans. Since I worked on these at around the same time, I thought that posting them together would be fitting. Originally, these were sketchs in my travel sketchbook that I decided to digitalize. Maybe I will actually draw a background for these pictures some time in the future, though I was mostly trying to practice poses when I drew these. By the way, I have drawings of the Pines family. I've drawn Stan, Mabel, and Dipper so far, so make sure to check those drawings out!