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Loop "drinks" a tonic by pouring it in the star on their chest, then get so excited because the effects work and also "OH MY STARS I CAN GET DRUNK AGAIN"

Skip to them frantically trying this new information out and before anyone can stop them, pours a bunch of adult grape juice into their body.

Only then Odile is like, "Loop. Didn't the effects of the tonic you drank linger longer than usual? I think your body tries to absorb the substance entirely since you don't... use the bathroom."

This realization washes over Loop. They had the reverse assumption that they needed more substance than usual cause their body is messed up. (Thought they were "too strong" and resistant to getting drunk because they uh dont have a stomach??)

Loop has the "don't let them know you're drunk, you're gonna be like this for a long time, DONT LET THEM KNOW" thought process, but everyone knows. They werent going to leave Loop alone since why would they?

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Does anyone have any references and/or tutorials for anatomy with Isabeau's body type or just more diverse body types in general? I've been wanting to draw him in more realistic styles but it's a little difficult when I'm not confident in my anatomy

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ask and you shall receive

@skiddlecat

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Martyr

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Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

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'We both know which one they'd pick.'

Based on @/starlightshore 's Tag In/Tag Out au (you should check it out! It's really good!!)

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Sucks to be you I guess?? Not my problem tbh...

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I'm noticing after 5 years of having this blog that sometimes I'll find out I'm following someone I don't remember following who doesn't seem to have ever been in any of my fandoms, and it'll be a very confusing experience for me. For instance, I discovered I was following someone who only posts pngs of cars with no caption. Sometimes I'll see a blog on my dash named something like [celebrity]-daily who I'm following and I'll have no idea who the celebrity is, but maybe I knew 5 years ago. Sometimes it's more simple, like finding out I'm following someone who seems to have only ever drawn fanart for gacha games I've never played. It's interesting in a way

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Self indulgent messy OC doodles for meee...

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if i was immortal killing myself would be my hobby and like i truly believe it would fix something in me. i do

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DISAPPEAR!

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Consume me into non-existence

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How do you get your siffrins to look adult? I keep accidentally giving them a baby face but I WANT THEM TO LOOK GROWN AND EXHAUSTED LIKE HE DESERVES

okay so i legit think i fail at making siffrin look adequately adult like half the time but here's a general breakdown of my like. thought process when im actually um. thinking .

So first of all heres my general tips for proportioning a face, and how i attempt to keep the roundness of sif's in-game proportions while also like... drawing them more realistically? i had to practically reinvent a Human Style for drawing isat fanart since im a furry artist so a lot of this is fresh in my mind, luckily(?) for you i suppose.

This newness also means you can like, watch me fight and struggle against how the hell to do this in my earlier fanart. so feel free to try and see what changed as i pieced it together.

Another note is body proportion. You note giving him a baby face specifically, but some of it MIGHT be that you're drawing the head too big for your style? Try and figure out how many "heads tall" your figures are and tweak the numbers until you find what looks "adult"

Here I cracked open one of the comics I used CSP Model refrences for (albeit feat Loop, who i envision to be the exact same height as siffrin. i am NOT a tall loop truther i think its funnier when that bitch is five foot NOTHING!!!!!)

drawing sif with adult proportions can be deceptively difficult though on account of their Being A Tiny Motherfucker. Mostly here though, I find that the best way to do this is to drop like 1/3rd of the length of an average drawing figure's legs. Short people tend to have short legs. I know this on account of a lot of my ocs being 5'3" and below (... for... reasons...... unrelated to my own... height.... 100%.... ) so once again I think a lot of this can come down to trying to fiddle with numbers and noting down what works.

OKAY NOW ONTO SOME MORE SIFFRIN-SPECIFIC DRAWING TIPS. like these are what i find myself doing to make them look older if i accidentally baby face them myself

The above kind of chibi-er doodle style im still not sure has Siffrin looking adult enough for my liking (someone who considers them minimum 28) but considering they're presumably genuinely a deceptively baby faced guy at least by game's start (even if they should probably look. unhealthy.) it's like... forgivable.

the bald spot is basically fucking cheating in terms of "making them look older" lbr but i am so fucking insistent on it and i punch the air in celebration every time i see anyone else do it. winner is ME!!!!

Anyway. the body hair thing is funny considering we basically have Word Of God that siffrin is not the kind of person who ever likes being naked/even having their feet out in a casual setting. but like. hi its me the weird fucked up miserable nudity guy. of course im drawing every pockmark and texture on their body.

Another note here is, on their naked form, I avoid overly smooth lines for outlines of the limbs and torso. This avoids making them look "sexy twink thin" (not my bag at all) and instead gives the impression of loose skin from fluctuating weight, uneven fat distribution, skin becoming baggier with age. I also let joints jut out and look sharp wherever I can. This is because im an asexual pervert who likes the human form the mostest when i can see 'imperfections' This adds to the haggard nature of it all, by being reasonably honest about what the kind of persistent decade-long neglect of self care and implied malnutrition would do to a guy

Last note: eyes. i find i end up drawing a vague glassy black smear with a hint of white for the sclera for siffrin like. a Lot. Eyebags to show weariness is not my preferred method as I find it, to be rude, a bit of an overused shorthand. Plus, while sif in game does get eyebags, they're usually more on pushed expressions where they're forcing their face. So I put more emphasis on drawing the folds of the upper lid (which the game does not do) to make them look weary.

I dont think i can elaborate on my opinions on How To Draw Eyes without it becoming a way the fuck too long essay because "drawing emotions good" is like. my number 1 goal in every drawing so even if everything else is scuffed to hell I HAVE TOOO get the eyes right because theyre the most emotive part of the face. if i cant capture an emotion correctly the drawing isnt getting fucking finished is the thing, so....

Luckily for me, drawing over eyes and continously tweaking them by painting over and over and over and redoing them can have the side effect of making them look over-detailed and thus worn/tired/agonised. yes this is why i draw loop's face so scrunched all the time. All I can say for this though is to do a lot of studies of both real life faces & the most emotive cartoon faces you personally have experienced. So like. steven universe is great for this because rebecca sugar is so scary at drawing eyes. theyre so fucking scary at it. or sometimes i just go stare at rebecca's old comics because jesus christ. anyway.

??? but yeah hope this helps. its something i feel like i have a genuine hard time with too, especially since im so intent on keeping their face round & my artstyle is genuinely very cutesy even when i am being weird soo ...?

tl;dr:

draw the eyes smaller, give them a chin, the canon nose helps a lot & dont forget the bald spot. everyone draw the bald spot. for me.

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yes i WILL come up with more stupid ways for Loop to get revealed. I will never stop and that's a promise

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sorry i’m late. had a hard time finding the “congrats on becoming the very thing you sought to destroy” section in the greeting card aisle

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yeah i'm a false prophet but you believed me so whose fault is it really that we're in this mess

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Imagine your icon as the protagonist of the last show you watched