Hi! I'm kyanako, or Phily. I've been here for years, but I'm only now getting into the groove of this site.
Notes/boundaries:
Asks will open and close at random. I'm pretty slow at responding to asks and may take months at a time.
If you're looking for my Milgram stuff, it's on @oboetemasuka
Feel free to send asks to said side blog if my ask box is closed on main
DMs are open to anyone who is following me. Note that the setting is different on my side blogs.
Feel free to ping me on posts I might be interested in, especially commissions, open requests, polls/tournaments, and art! I use a custom dashboard to view posts chronologically and omit reblogs, so I might miss a lot of posts.
However, please do not put bashing where I can't easily avoid it, and give me a heads up if something is going to lean critical. (E.g. dashboard is easy to avoid. Notifications not so much.)
(Psst, I have a strawpage. You can send me stuff)
(ID in alt text; image ID under the cut)
Here's what I do:
For MILGRAM stuff, I'm @oboetemasuka. Any art from there also gets reblogged here. If any OCs are involved, it'll be the other way around.
SWAP Ensemble is my long-time comic that ran from July 16, 2014 to March 11, 2025. I will continue to make supplementary drawings and possibly redraw older pages.
Behind Closed Doors is a dormant story based on Your Turn To Die. (More like a thinly-veiled fic, though I plan to reboot it in a different direction when I feel like it)
The Hollock Adventures ("Ynez Hollock's Deadly Game" and "Jack Hollock's Super Easy Adventure") are comics of Pokemon Nuzlocke Challenges. I've started the third installment off of Tumblr, but that's also dormant.
Asonarium is a story I've had in mind, featuring whump subject Weave Sutari. So far, I've just used the guy for drawing prompts. I don't know if I'll go into story mode since I already have so much going on.
Claire Inez is my darling, so you'll probably see her around a lot. She exists at every age that she's alive. You can interact with her at @claire-inez
Her primary series is SWAP Ensemble, but you'll also find her in the following projects:
Back to the Basement: The Forest Basement is full of the spirits of those who died there, and those who wind up there have to explore to get out. (You'll mostly find Inktober art of the spirits or of Inez and her companions getting into tough situations.)
Heartland of Regrets: OCgram that supposedly takes place a year before SWAP Ensemble, featuring six ladies who are responsible for someone's death. Yes, Claire has canonically caused death at 14.
Miscellaneous posts:
Art WIPs list
I talk about being Filipino
Origin of my username
[Image ID:
(going roughly top to bottom)
(text) kyanako5972 a.k.a. Phily K. Illagan
(kyanako is waving) <- Me
(Amane Momose from MILGRAM holds an eyepatch in confusion) <- Oboetemasuka? (Amane, put on the eyepatch)
(Claire Inez as she looks on SWAP Ensemble Day 1, in a skippy pose) <- (Darling) Claire Inez
(Judith holds her hands together and looks up curiously) <- Judith Diaton (Behind Closed Doors)
(Caroline waves a conductor's baton) <- Caroline Doctrina (SWAP Ensemble
(Ynez Hollock stands and smiles menacingly) <- Ynez Hollock (The Hollock Adventures)
(Weave Sutari stands and stares up with big eyes) <- Weave Sutari (Asonarium)
(Claire Inez, age 42, kneels on the ground and has a thousand-yard stare) <- Oops, I subjected my darling to ~4 decades of the Horrors
- Heartland of Regrets
- Back to the Basement
- and other things
/end ID]
Fun fact: Claire and Guilla are closer in age to each other than the next-closest person in SWAP, but they're in different grades because the cutoff is right before Claire's birthday.
When I was coloring this, I unfortunately had the wrong skin tone pencil in my case. So I had to hue-shift it towards red this time. Whoops.
My last art reblog spree was in September/October of last year. Maybe I should pick up on that again.
Notably, I haven't drawn a lot since then, up until a self-imposed daily challenge I started on May 20, so... be prepared for an eventual burst of 90-100 reblogged drawings next September, I guess.
I was trying out the skin-tone markers again, and they scanned very red again. (Image on left). I tried a hue shift like I did for Vivian, but I don't think that's quite it either. I'll look up some tutorials for these markers, then.
Concert time!
On one of the pieces, the saxophones were playing faster than the conductor and ended up two beats ahead, and she made increasingly wide gestures for them to watch.
We called it the "Charles Ives" rendition.
Vivian Guanzon. Age 19-21. Sonomage. Venture scout. Engineering student.
Character for a Risus (DND-esque) game.
Digitally edited because my markers scanned way more red than I expected. I might just stick to my tried-and-true Prismacolors going forward...
She's sort of a hodge-podge of my favorite fictional characters. I tried to make her not like Claire Inez but accidentally made her like Bessie instead.
This one's going to go a bit more in-depth because there were some interesting things going on with the key signature.
(Obligatory "was not a music major" disclaimer)
Keys: F# minor, D minor, Eb minor/E minor/F minor
Range: C4-F5
General form: A B C A C' D
Detailed form analysis under the cut. (With a transcription!)
Let's start with the intro. The intro is very chromatic, which made it tricky for me to discern the key.
But then I listened more closely and concluded that it's in F# minor based on the background notes. It comes back later in the song with an electronic riff that is discernibly in F# minor. (I got too tired to transcribe the riff. Sorry.)
The low note is notated as B#, but it's enharmonic with C.
Then comes the verse, which is in D minor. I haven't matched the rhythms perfectly with the lyrics, so they may be imprecise. This section could also be in 12/8 (more on that later).
The chord progression goes: Dm | Bb | C | F (which is i-VI-VII-III)
Chorus! Or is it pre-chorus? There are some truck driver gear changes here. Eight bars in Eb minor, four bars in E minor, and four bars in F minor.
The chord progression is effectively the same as the previous section, but up a half step each time.
Ebm | Cb | Db | Gb
Em | C | D | G
Fm | Db | Eb | Ab
And then there are two bars leading into the chorus/post-chorus/b chorus.
F minor, with a two-bar chord progression of: Fm | Db C (i-VI-V)
And the 12/8 part mentioned above? This one can also be written in 12/8.
The next set of verses and choruses are similar, but the chorus stops after 8 bars and doesn't change keys.
And now for the bridge! The bridge comes in two parts.
Eight bars of a chord progression: Gb | Bbm | Ebm | Db (III-v-i-VII)
And then this strange sequence. A two-bar melody, transposed up a minor third each time. The chords go: D E F G Ab Bb C
The time signature isn't very relevant in this part, so I didn't change it in the notation.
There's not a lot different in the final (pre)chorus.
But the final (post) chorus has a different chord progression.
Fm | Db | Eb | Ab Eb (i - VI - VII - III)
(Maybe I should've run this by Sibling to make sure I was using "Eb/G" correctly. It's an Eb major chord with a root of G.)
The detailed form is A B C D A B C D E.
A and B always occur sequentially. D always occurs after C, except when C is cut short. So A+B and C+D can be condensed into one letter.
I've been wondering if I should start branching out in music analysis. If you want me to analyze anything in this same manner, feel free to drop an ask in my box.
On April Fool's day, I did a music analysis for a yet-to-be released song. But in actuality, it was The Third Sanctuary from Deltarune. I know it's been thoroughly analyzed by others before, but I thought I'd give it my own spin. This post has been slightly edited to remove the fake references.
(Obligatory "I was not a music major" disclaimer)
Key: Eb minor (Slightly detuned.)
Range: Eb4-Gb5 for the main melody
Chord progressions:
The intro and A-section go: Eb | Eb | Cb | Db ( i | i | VI | VII )
The B-section goes: Eb | Db | Eb | Cb ( i | VII | i | VI )
And the final section goes: Cb | Db | Eb | Bb ( VI | VII | i | v )
Form analysis + Time signatures: If this track is known for anything, it is the crazy time signatures! It's practically a meme!
Intro (9/8) 4 bars
A: (11/8 (5+6)) 21 bars
B: (10/8 (5+5)) 24 bars
C: (11/8; bar 4 is 9/8, bar 8 is 4/4) 8 bars
A: 20 bars
B: 16 bars
Interlude: (technically still in 10/8, but it's all slow) 20 bars
D: (alternating 11/8, 12/8) 24 bars
The A and B sections can be consolidated, and the letters shifted back, making the general form A B A C. Quite simple.
I want to get back to the OC builder (Sibling time!) but I feel like I should sketch out the sibling's hair before asking about the name. Straight/wavy/curly hair (always short, maybe chin-length), green eyes, glasses... Name is some variation of "Florence" but pointedly gender-neutral (and possibly tackily modern)
