The Shooting Star

Random Scene With Stan

Dialouge: Wow, poindexter! You really outdid yourself this time...

I was just messing around with this drawing. I suppose this scene takes place when Ford show him the portal, but eh. I was loosely basing it off of that. I used zero reference for this because it was supposed to be a doodle, not a fully drawn picture. I tried to make it look somewhat science-y (how many lights make it science?). I was honestly just messing around with lightsources. So if it doesn't look good, that's because I have no idea how to draw lightsources (why, it's almost as if I should practice that). The blue light (that's reflecting off of Stan) is supposed to be coming from the portal (off-scene).

I'm not hugest fan of this drawing, even though I put more work into it than my other ones, but "that's art, baby!" My previous doodles are a bit more to my liking. I've drawn Stan, Mabel, Dipper, and the little Stans. I think my favorite is the one with Mabel. Though, I still haven't drawn (old) Ford.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

STAGNANT CAMPAIGN: Save Hani's Niece and Nephew

Hi all, I would like to spotlight Hani's campaign, which has been severely stagnating for weeks now. This is saddening to watch, especially when they are so close to their goal.

This is Saleh, the daughter of Hani's sister, who is just 3 years old, and her younger brother Huda, who just turned 2 years old during the occupation. Constant fear living under bombardment and months-long food scarcity has robbed them of their childlike joy and infectious energy.

Please help this family evacuate with these two children. They have been forced to give the children cooked dough to eat for months. Fruit and vegetables are extremely hard to come by. This could have serious long term health complications for these growing children.

Hani has multiple siblings who are university students and high school students. They have jobs and dreams that are cut short by the invasion. Please help Hani save them so they can be reunited. Hani has been exiled alone in Belgium away from his family for months.

Only 1 donation in the past 3 hours. This is extremely worrying. Please help us save this family from this stagnant campaign. Please donate whatever you can spare.

Please check out the custom tote bag raffle and the Magikarp plush raffle for donors, the two artists responsible for the raffles have agreed to extend the prizes for Hani's family as well. New custom tote bag design to be released Friday Aug 16.

€43,100 raised of €50,000 goal currently as of August 15, we need to raise €6,900 BY THE END OF DAY SUNDAY so the family can start relocating to southern Gaza in preparation for evacuation.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help me get my family out to safety, organized by Hani Alhajjar

Hello, I'm Hani from Gaza, and I'm 23 years old. I've been living in Belgium for a y… Hani Alhajjar needs your support for Help me get my fa

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!

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!