After 7 months of on-and-off work, the first fic I ever started writing is finally finished!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Time Pressure, my own AU introducing my favourite OC to a struggling post-canon hatchling that, although they don't know it yet, needs her support as much as she needs theirs.
My writing wasn't so good in the start and I definitely fell apart a little given the many breaks I took from writing but I think it was a great first story and I can't wait to see where I go next!
I think I did pretty good for my first! Outer Wilds - Respite made it out of community labs within like 24 hours and there have been like ~30 people using it for most of today, it's honestly been blowing my mind
HUOHKAY, After chipping away at this for over a month, my Outer Wilds comic is finally done!!
Initially I wanted to do this in two parts, like how many other versions of this beloved Undertale quote have done. But in the middle of thumbnailing the sketch, I thought why not illustrate Hatchling's journey too and I further expanded this project, by a lot hfjdjg
Outer Wilds is such a fantastic game and truly one of a kind, I only hope I did the game justice with this comic I made
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Some artist notes below, if you're interested in reading all of it!
I began this project around early August!
I separated each page to their own canvases so I don't have a ridiculously huge file size. And each canvas has a different name. From the first to the last, their names go: It's you > Nova > Loop > Lonely > Glade > Despite everything.
Glade was actually a really long canvas that I split into two, bc I wanted to experiment with like a vertical scroll thing. So the Glade pages were split into Glade A and Glade B
My favourite page to work on was page 2, the supernova was fun to make, especially with the pointilism brush that CSP had which made it way easier.
Page 4 initially had a way different layout before I settled with this one. As shown below here:
But when I did a second pass, I rearranged the panels and instead decided to illustrate scenes that Hatchling had with the two.
With Solanum, it's learning and translating her texts on the QM. With Prisoner, it's when you discover the truth and after the vision…
For the Gabbro and Hatchling panel, I changed it so that both are at a distance and facing away from the viewer. As like a sort of way to show that Hatchling is having the reality of the situation dawn on them and try to cope with it. I did name this canvas "lonely" for a reason ::)
putting this in a reblog to keep the main post clean
this art right here is the single most emotionally charged piece i've ever made. i don't know how many times i cried drawing it as i watched it come together, or if it was more like one long crying session, lol
i've wanted for so long to make meaningful art to express my thankfulness to these two pieces of media - they both changed me in ways where i don't even know if i'd be alive without them.
to the dlc that taught me to accept the past as it is and the game that taught me to grieve, have this little thing i made. i think it looks nice ::]