Right now this is mostly an ISAT fandom blog, bear with me as I figure out how actively participating in fandom works, I’ve been a lurker my whole life lmao. Filter the isat tag if it gets too much
I’m chill and friendly and haven't been on tumblr in years, so uhhhh hit me up cause I need more ppl to interact with on here <3
a more proper reference for my armenian siffrin design. UNFORTUNATELY, as much as i wanted to make the cloak more interesting i just could not manage it. so imagine that this is a really weird, big yet cropped cherkeska that they're wearing
horror timeloop game where an entire group gets timelooped and have to work together to break out but realize in horror after a really good loop that one of them no longer remembers any of the progress made and now does the same thing every loop. they have to get out individually. they cant escape together. making progress means reducing the amount of people you have with you
ISAT really is one of those games i approached with net 0 fandom interaction, just my own experience and that of my patented sicko friends, so it's kinda surreal whenever popular conceptions of it filter through my dashboard via their bitching. like seeing a glimpse into another universe
"odile is siffrin's mom" does the humiliatingly one-sided crush he develops after she yanks him by the collar in act 5, spawning the achievement "Not Now - discover something new about yourself" that only exists in my brain mean Nothing to you people
More! Human! Loop! This little guy just won’t leave my mind!!
Decided it would probably be fun to make them respawn washed up in Bambouche. Interactions between Nille and Loop sound fun. And after the initial shock of Being Actually Alive and knowing that the King has been defeated, Loop gets to tell her that Bonnie’s safe (“how the crab do they know that??”) because the party hasn’t reached Bambouche yet.
Also, I’ve been going back and forth for the cloak design. I like the simple bell shape. I like the fancy one with cuts in the back and a hoodie. Maybe the bell shape was the base design but later was modified into the hoodie one?? Much to think about (I take suggestions!)
i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.
Some ISAT fanarts I recently drew 💖 I love Siffrin so much,,
I want to yoink their cloak n hat and wear it at any season omg it looks so comfy,,
❕ TwoHats post-game spoilers under cut! And little SASASAP spoiler ❕💖
I really love to imagine that after Siffrin's party discovers that Loop is also Siffrin, the original one from previous loop cycle, Siff's party accepted having second Siffrin in their family and then Loop started to sob from utter happiness. Then everyone gathered around Loop and gave them a group hug, which made Loop regain their human body back as their wish finally gets fulfilled as they're together with them again 💖
Also started playing SASASAP recently and found out that Siffrin also knows origami :0c
As the flash hits your eye, you feel something crashing into you from all directions. Below you is obvious, Bonbon situated themself to bump into you while the picture was taken. You look to your right, and Mirabelle’s cheek is pressed up to yours. On your left, Isabeau’s sheepishly hugged you to his side. There’s a hand in your hair, too, and it feels like Madame Odile.
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“We need a souvenir of this trip,” Mirabelle adds. She rushes to the ground to pick up the picture and snort-laughs as she looks at it. “Oh no, Siffrin looks like we’re holding him hostage!”
— Curtain Call, Chapter 9, by @openphrase123 (Link in the replies)
2024 October 22nd
Fanfic fanart fanfic fanart!! When I read the "hostage" line, it invoked such a clear image in my head of Siffrin tensed up like a startled prey animal that it got added to my list of things to maybe draw immediately.
Dooon't think about the words 'left' and 'right' in that quote too hard. I know how to read I prommy. :)
(I did Not process those words and lost the coin flip in the composition phase...)
Close-up and ramblings about the cans of worms I unleashed upon myself under the cut
Time taken on this was [head in hands] 48 hours and 37 minutes.... That bloated number has two culprits:
1) I got a new tablet! My old one was 10 years old. Its plastic was melting and the electronics had ghosts in 'em, so it needed the sweet release of retirement. However, I had just gotten to the line art phase when the switch happened. Clumsily getting used to the new one during the most precise phase of the process did devastating things to my perfectionism.
2) I made a GRAVE mistake with how I chose to color this. I wanted to keep the grayscale layers for accuracy instead of just slapping a B&W filter over the colored version, so all the colors come from gradient maps, color balance layers, overlay layers, and raster layers clipped to other layers.
Listen. I'm used to working with lots of layers. I like keeping things separate so I can edit them more easily. But this is the worst layer system I have ever created. Going from color to B&W requires toggling exactly 20 layers & folders on or off. There are 87 visible layers total. This file lags when you edit it. I've never wanted CSP v1.13 to have layer comps more in my life.
Not helping matters was Isabeau. I said he was the easiest to draw in my last post, but he took that as a challenge, apparently. It's a simple fist-on-hip pose, why was that so hard!?! His face gave me grief too.
Odile's lil' wave got added at the end of the line art phase. I've never added to a sketch that late in the game before, but I felt bad about how little screen area she got, haha. Girl, I tried, but this composition was not kind to you.
Giving Isa, Odile, and Siffrin skin colors felt cursed. Well... "color" is maybe a stretch for Sif. The pallor from being affection-jumpscared isn't helping.
In the dev's nose reveal post, they said that Siffrin isn't white but is white-passing, so BOOM albinism headcanon. Like c'mon, they wear a big hat and have most of their skin covered because the sun is a deadly laser when you have little to no melanin and idk if sunblock exists in-universe. Heck, maybe most Islanders have it, their whole religion is about the night sky so maybe they're nocturnal. This makes perfect sense. :)
It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.
I need to start posting sketches and wips again. I’ve fallen into the self doubt pit and now I’m battling art demons, the only cure is to stop giving a fuck about quality and stubbornly post whatever.