Dancing In The Dark, With You Between My Arms

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.)

Back To basics. Just finished a big project and I'm back to drawing for fun, playing around on Procreate and remembering just how fun and powerful that app is!

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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Julia's First Painting

Reflection

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.

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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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