Siffrin Close Up

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.

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 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!

Julia's First Painting

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!

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!

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.

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.

Cloudy Day

This drawing was mostly me just messing around with my art app. Specifically, I was messing around with the background. I liked how it turned out. I think that it actually looks like a cloudy day! I didn't feel like line art for the character would match up with the style of the background, so I just colored over my sketch. The character's design is based off of Coraline (the movie). Anyhow, I like how the drawing turned out.

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!