i am now fixated on these guys in addition to sirinoelclaire and it is all this artist’s fault because their mono and six give me extreme cuteness aggression
Demons [Prompt/Idea Notes]
I felt sad that IZ never made a hater Sirius design proper (yeah there was the Lil Guy but c'mon) so I made one. In the AU sirius is like 300 years old and was a previous owner of the mansion who got killed in a mob by people who broke in (I think his backstory is mostly the same but with no Claire & Noel, so his parents and Dorothy still died). Despite all the time he still feels very possessive over the mansion and curses people who disturb it. So he became a hater. Noel is a purebred in the AU and they have toxic yaoi because Noel is obsessed with him and feigns comforting and understanding (literally just because he finds it interesting not even specifically to try to lie to him)* and Sirius resents Noel for doing that but also feels in his heart like he can't trust any human or even ex-human, so Noel not being human and not being able to have true empathy for him is actually the only reason Sirius trusts Noel, and deep down he feels like he's the only one that Sirius can trust.
*Noel being purebred changes so much about his character that he's basically a different character so I kinda ran wild w it lmao. Noel is a Very Human character.
Demons [Art Notes]
Since it's in hell, I could just cheap out for this one. It seems like hell, despite its appearances, is a pretty neutrally lit place, so... Ngl the color filter I tried putting on it made it look dreamy but that's okay.
Angels [Prompt/Idea Notes]
Ok ngl i didn't know what to do for this one. I mentioned I wanted my drawings to be pre-existing ideas, but I've never had an angel related idea for WH. At the suggestion of a friend I made them doomed angel yaoi to be the counterpart to the toxic demon yaoi. I have developed the AU very little since I never thought of it before this drawing but uh. My idea was that noel is Siruis's guardian angel; with a twist that noel is actually a fallen angel who is not actually assigned to Sirius, and he only watches over Sirius out of a sense of duty to him, lying and saying he's his guardian angel to justify it.
Since the prompt is angels plural I was thinking maybe Sirius becomes an angel?? Or secretly already is one or something??? Idk
Angels [Art Notes]
Everyone I showed liked this one most... at the lineart stage at least. I couldn't make the lighting work because with the colored lineart, if I put it under the lineart, the lineart would show up all weird, but when I put it over, it made it look like... that. I didn't have enough time to try to find a solution...
But I think Noel's wings turned out decently.
Demons [Design Commentary]
This was the rough draft of the design. I wanted it to be red because I feel like red is rarely prominent in Sirius's designs despite that being his eye color, so I figured if he's going to be a demon depiction of Sirius at his worst, then why not...
Since he usually has a crescent motif, I gave him a sun motif (sometimes simplified to just a little star shape) to be its inverse, and I let him be a little fruitier with it because why not.
Demons [Design Commentary]
This was was pretty vague but fun - most notable feature is the eyes on the cape(?) that didn't fit in the final drawing. They're blue like Noel's eyes, and my idea is that before he was "fallen" they eyes on his wings were also blue. (I'm debating whether the eyes on his face also turned orange after being fallen.) He didn't change his clothes after falling, so the fact that they're blue unlike the ones on his wings is like, a "hint." The halo wasn't drawn because fallen angel, but I think he originally had one. Me not drawing his ahoge was just me forgetting though.
Pets [Prompt/Idea Notes]
Simple idea, I always wanted to draw something about my headcanon that Noel is a dog-like person who loves cats and Sirius is a cat-like person who loves dogs because it's so adorable to me. (Honestly, it's only partially a headcanon. Sirius does say he prefers dogs IIRC, and Noel never states a preference but seems to really like the cat that shows up...)
I wanted to give Noel a little black cat that's mean and claws at everyone but warmed up to Noel specifically and cuddles with him, and I wanted to give Sirius a needy golden retriever that loves him and constantly wants his approval and attention that Sirius pretends to be annoyed with but actually adores and spoils. Those personalities of the pets don't come across in this pic necessarily but I wanted to make something related to it so you might as well hear me yap about it.
Pets [Art Notes]
I don't like it that much, but I am glad that I drew animals that look remotely passable, usually when I drew them they barely look like the animal they're meant to represent. (References!) I didn't get Noel's leg right... Drawing the clock was fun, though. I got advice from a friend about how to make the colors look a little more cohesive. And as you can see, I used a stock wood grain texture again, you're going to see this a lot. I also used a stock rug texture, and used a photo I had taken as what's in the window. (I was tired when I finished the lineart, and realized I'd have to draw the outside... but I really didn't feel like doing that, so I just... didn't...)
Funnily enough, initially this was a split drawing with a line down the middle, because I wasn't sure how to make incorporate both Noel having a cat and Sirius having a dog into one drawing. But turns out like, the way I had drawn it, they already looked like they could be in the same room next to each other, so near the end of the lineart stage I just took down the line between them.
Date Night [Prompt/Idea Notes]
So this one is just from a basic college AU when (in the AU) Sirius is just now starting to fall for Noel after Noel has been pining for him for a long time. Unfortunately it's not technically a date because this is in the idiot slowburn denial stage but we can pretend it is, I wanted to draw it because it was a cute scene where their romantic tension really starts up (in the AU). Noel does have long hair but that's only because he cuts it later on in the AU.
Date Night [Art Notes]
The perspective is all over the place... SiriNoel, the booth, the seats, are all drawn in different perspective from one another... Oh well...
I used stock wood grain again. The stuff in the back is all photos I took with an oil paint filter on them (I'm not sure if that comes across, I feel like the oil paint filter doesn't do enough to make it clear they're meant to be paintings rather than framed photos). (Honestly, I was sort of looking for an excuse to integrate my photos into my art somehow... and it happened to make things easier for me too, so...)
I'll be honest that I'm not happy with most of my drawings lately, so I don't have much to say other than complaining about the things I don't like, which is just a downer... Hopefully I'll have something more positive to say tomorrow.
Once again participating in karamielo's SiriNoel Week!
[long commentary yap under the cut]
Overall Prompt/Idea Notes
What I wanted to do with these pieces was primarily: to communicate pre-existing ideas that I already have and care about. Last year, I somewhat tried to do this, but there were quite a few prompts where I pulled something out of thin air or scrapped my original idea, because I had decided what I wanted to draw from the ideas already in my head was "too far out of my skill level to draw yet." My purpose in art, and my impetus for drawing, is in general to communicate ideas I have about the world(s) inside my head, so it's honestly depressing how often I opt out of doing that in favor of some hypothetical future where I'm "good enough" at art to do what made me want to draw in the first place. (Honestly, this is why so much of my art is just jokeposts, because it was much easier to express jokey ideas with my skill level.) I've also been long aware that avoiding drawing things that are "too far out of your skill level" is what hinders progress in the first place...
I find myself having trouble choosing an idea to draw, so a challenge like this is a perfect opportunity for me, since the prompts give inspiration. Maybe a little overly-reflective for a ship drawing challenge, but, true nonetheless... Anyway, since these are mostly ideas I already care about and have lore for, expect more yapping about the ideas than last year.
Overall Art Notes
My goal artistically is for the pieces to be significantly better than last year - that's pretty much it. I haven't been drawing much lately due to... life hell, but I want to get back into the swing of it and feel like I've improved since then.
I don't like the brush I used throughout the set. I meant to choose a different but similar one. Alas, sunk-cost fallacy. I have to do the whole set in this brush now.
I'm finally using references?!? Like I always knew I should?!?
Ocean [Prompt/Idea Notes]
You knew I had to do my little mermaid AU again 😅 Same AU for the first drawing this year too, huh? Well, I think it's fairly justified given the prompt.
This is the equivalent scene of the prince being saved by the mermaid… well, except Sirius isn't a prince and Noel isn't a mermaid (*he is a merperson I just mean he's not female, but yeah Sirius is just a normal guy not a prince in this AU). My idea is Noel had finally made it to the surface for the first time in his life, wishing to see the stars, but it was cloudy, so he watched humans from far away instead, mainly Sirius (they don't have any - direct - past history with one another in this AU - Noel has history with Claire and Claire has history with Sirius but the two never met directly).
Sirius was standing on a dock on a hidden beach, and was about to leave when it suddenly started storming and he got knocked into the water (and he can't swim!). Noel tries to save him (he understands humans need to breathe air + Sirius is unconscious) but can't return him to the beach due to it being enclosed by a cliff which the waves are now crashing against, so he manages to find a boat and the people on the boat spot them and are able to help Sirius, and they try to help Noel since they don't know he's not a human, but obviously Noel just goes back under.
Ocean [Art Notes]
Okay. I'm aware you can barely see SiriNoel. When I was making the drawing I really wanted it to be muddy and low visibility to suit the tone, but kept fighting with myself on it because making it muddy and low visibility... you know, makes it so you can't see the drawing well. So I kept switching between low visibility to suit the tone and higher visibility to see the drawing, and eventually I just gave up because I cared about the emotional tone more then the... quality of the piece. It's an intentional artistic choice guys, trust.
I think the ocean looks better at least than last year's ocean (references!! you're going to hear me scream a lot about references because they're heaven lmao). I also color theory'd it up... kinda. Rather than making them their default colors and putting an overlay on it I just made them like, very blue tinted. I think that's something. To be honest I don't think the way I drew them floating looks very natural though.
I'm not super happy with it, other than thinking that the waves are pretty decent, it just doesn't look great to me since the linework feels low effort in general, but it does convey the mood I wanted.
Sky [Prompt/Idea Notes]
So, I was stumped on this one because when you think of SiriNoel and sky you kinda. Have. To do something star related, but every SiriNoel artist and their grandma has already drawn them stargazing, including me last year. I wanted to do maybe something to do with the Sirius star but that would be Noel-focused and I've already drawn Noel gazing longingly at that star in the past, so. I kinda opted to do the inverse of that drawing I made of Noel admiring the star but also feeling it represents the pain and the longing and the guilt, where I instead had Sirius looking at the stars.
This is before anyone arrived at the mansion - I think being alone he'd let his pride slip a lot more than he'd ever admit to anyone else and sometimes give into a sense of nostalgia in the absence of the presence of people, so I think he'd probably look at the stars sometimes and just be reminded of Noel (and to some extent Claire) and when they used to look out the window together. I had the idea that I'd make a second sketch where he looks away (as if to say "who cares about that anyway") but I was too tired so just pretend it happened.
Sky [Art Notes]
It's okay! The window panes don't look great, but also, this is the first time I've drawn window panes without just... putting a low opacity white layer over it, so that's a start. I still can't draw a night sky well, but I did try (whereas last year I'm pretty sure I just used a stock photo). The wood grain texture... is stolen from a free stock photo, because I still don't feel like drawing that shit.
I think what color I decided to use for the lighting is inconsistent, but... overall, I really like how I did Sirius's hair and even his outfit kinda, and the window's not too bad.
i totally forgot to upload this here but here are some prompts for sirinoel week :D ! feel free to participate and use the tag sirinoelweek2026 if you’d like to.
i totally forgot to upload this here but here are some prompts for sirinoel week :D ! feel free to participate and use the tag sirinoelweek2026 if you’d like to.
amandla
andulkaphoto
turnnoffyourmind
blakekathryn
vaporwave
