Auburn Arcana 🪄

🧭 I'm Auburn Arcana, a wandering witch who does digital drawing, pixel art, variety indie games, and Touhou! I'm hoping to be a regular manga artist some day! ☄️ I dabble in some other things as well, and I enjoy Cave Story, Celeste, Crypt of the Necrodancer, LunarLux, and too many other games to list. 🌠 Website: https://AuburnArcana.neocities.org 🌠 Other socials & profiles: https://auburnarcana.carrd.co/ 🌠 Contact form & FAQ (outdated, to be migrated to Neocities): https://auburnarcana.wordpress.com/faq/ 🌠 Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/Auburn_Arcana/ 🎨 Art tag: #AuburnArcanart ☄️ (Original artwork © Auburn Arcana, not to be reused without permission.)

[auburnarcana]

Astrid Arcana reference sheet

I recently finished a reference sheet of my shadow youkai OC! (Now with a proper name. （＾∇＾） )

✦ Total time: ~23 hours © Auburn Arcana ☯ July 2026

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Auburn Arcana reference sheet

I made a new reference sheet! I've updated this design substantially since my very first time trying this. (๑>◡<๑)

I've also been adding more to the reference sheet formula that I use. This time around, I tried filling in a katakana version of the name and some more sections for the info column.

✦ Total time: ~30 hours © Auburn Arcana ☯ June 2026

[sout999]

the following diagram illustrates that if i had a fluffy bunny tail, or floppy bunny ears, or perhaps both, i would fidget even more at bus stops than i already do links/ store

[auburnarcana]

Daiyousei bounce chibi

This is a bounce chibi that I made last month. It was mainly an exercise with keyframe animation.

I did end up making two different motions in the process!

✧ Total time: ~9 hours © Auburn Arcana ✧ March + April 2026

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Trans Day of Visibility drawing '26

Happy Easter! With how close it was to Trans Day of Visibility, I had the idea to combine the two.

Local witch and pet rock are up to something! <(￣︶￣)>

✧ Total time: ~9 hours © Auburn Arcana ✧ March + April 2026

[girlkisserr]

hi chat. commission sheet bc lowkey whatever's wrong with my body is getting me and everyone irl really wants to force the notion that i am a perfectly abled person

i am disabled. commissions may take a while + be queued if i get a lot. but i will be working through them slowly on top of trying to get into jewelling for a chance at a livable wage job without making myself worse

ToS + contacts can be found here Ko-fi link here if you wanted to donate Carrd ver here + additional gallery examples

[boycritter]

"unbecoming" is such a great word. bro that shit was so rude you no longer Are

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[artsekey]

Hey, so if you have Windows 11 installed and have been losing your mind over the fact that you can't find your own files because Windows is now prioritizing internet search results first, you can fix it by following this guide:

How to Disable Windows Web Search and Speed Up Your PC

Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

As someone with over 900 GB of intentionally and properly named files on her computer (I do a lot of digital art and digital media work that requires high-volume files that function off of dependencies), this feature was making me furious. I followed the above instructions and can confirm that the method outlined solves the problem.

[banrionceallach]

I have just tried this, it works and the explanation how to do it was so user friendly and clearly laid out.

[berylian]

10 and 11 are also kinda secretly adding Windows Copilot to your computer when you're not looking. Even without software updates. You can follow this guide to disable Copilot

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11 in just a few simple steps.

The guide uses a program called gpedit (group policy editor), if you can't find it on your computer, follow this guide to install/enable it, and remember to always run as administrator:

Run these commands in command prompt.

Win + Q

Search: command prompt

Right-click > Run as admin

Copy, paste, and enter these commands:

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )

Test it by opening Win + R

Type: gpedit.msc

See if it opens

[auburnarcana]

Lily Blight

This is a chibi that I made for a Touhou Gacha Satire collab project. I had a silly Halloween-coded idea and imagined "Lily Blight" as some kind of anti-hero reaper / plague lord.

Backgrounds aren't a part of the submission proper, but I wanted to try my hand at one for fun as a side piece of the project. <(￣︶￣)>

✧ Total time: ~6 hours © Auburn Arcana ✧ March 2026

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Sherry Alistair character sheet

I've been working on a new character design sheet formula to use for a set of OCs. This approach is also useful to me for making individual outfits, showcasing equipment, and the like.

I recently finished this first one for Sherry!

✧ Total time: ~13 hours, 15 minutes © Auburn Arcana ✧ March 2026

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Aspiring Wanderers cover illustration

I've been starting to reboot my OC projects recently, and wanted to try my hand at some cover art with the characters.

It's also for January's VGen Challenge, whose "Adventure" theme particularly stood out to me!

VGen post: https://vgen.co/challenge/jan-2026?contestSubmission=1ca5c677-f39e-49ce-b766-eff8cceca849

(For each month, you can vote for your favorites in the following seven days - February 1st to 7th, for this month of January!)

✦ Total time: ~21 hours, 40 minutes © Auburn Arcana ✦ January 2026

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Auburn's art summary 2025

These are my highlights for the art that I did in 2025! （＾∇＾）

The art summary's design was made from scratch. Please feel free to use it for yours! You can find the templates here:

Auburn's art summary 2025 - Click to view on Ko-fi

Follow Auburn Arcana on Ko-fi

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Friendly hug

For this month's VGen contest, I kept it simple with a drawing of two of my OCs Saki (fox girl on left) and Abigail ("arboran" girl on right) in a hugging pose together. I wanted to try some pose practice, but also had the idea of close friendship in mind.

Close friends can be family as well! "Found family" is very important, whether it's finding individual friends or communities to be close to.

✦ Total time: ~14 hours, 40 minutes © Auburn Arcana ✦ December 2025

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Daiyousei chibi

Daiyousei from Touhou is a lot of fun to render, and can have quite a lot of color brought out! （つ≧▽≦)つ

There's also a nervous-looking variant that happened in the process of making this.

✦ Total time: ~11.4 hours (Includes pose concepting) © Auburn Arcana ✦ December 2025

[girlkisserr]

lovely comm for @thestupidmeanone <3

[auburnarcana]

AuburnBless chibi

This is a chibi that I made for November's VGen contest! The theme this month was "Wishes", so I decided to try a Pray/Bless expression. Chibi drawing is a relatively new skill. I started occasionally doing them since January, learning from the book 「 Beginner's Guide to Drawing Manga Chibi Girls 」.

I find detailed fullbodies to be particularly fun. It helps me practice more thoroughly - and they're really good for emotes and expressive graphic designs!

Here are some sketches of the ideas as well!

✦ Total time: ~12 hours (including idea drafting) © Auburn Arcana ✦ November 2025

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Thanksgiving list '25

I made a Thanksgiving list to write down things that I'm grateful for! There are a lot of things that mean a lot to me here.

Thank you all for the support as always! I don't consider myself very vocal about it, but I really appreciate everybody who invests their valuable time with me in any way. <3

© Auburn Arcana ✦ November 2025