#and siffrin in the ahit art style

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Drawing went extremely well today. I popped off, if I do say so myself. I busted out the entire rough sketch in a few hours. I don’t think I’ll do any more today, but I expect to be able to share the cleanup sketch tomorrow.

Once I have both cleanup sketches, I’ll export it to my laptop so I can work in CSP, because I’m not doing all that without my beloveds, Liquify Tool and Clip to Layer Below.

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Hey.

So, uh…

Remember that art thing I said I was working on?

Well…

It’s still pretty messy, but… Here you go.

ISAT-STYLE HAT KID.

Look at her! She’s so energetic! And not depressed! So unlike Siffrin!

She got that cape! And that umbrella! And her signature hat!

I think I did pretty well at capturing the ISAT art style. Certainly for my first time. A colored version does exist, but I’m saving that for another day, when I can post the finished versions. To talk about the art itself, I used Bonnie as my primary reference, since they’re the only one who’s not an adult. For example, Hat Kid has blush stickers and no nose shadow, since that seems to be a kid thing. I also borrowed Mirabelle’s rapier to get an idea of the perspective on the umbrella, which helped out a lot. I also decided to keep Hat Kid’s thicker upper eye line and her eyelash-thingies, since I feel they make her more distinctive from the other characters, in a good way. They’re also pretty satisfying to draw, not gonna lie.

For those of you who don’t know, this is part of me demo’ing an AU idea I had, called In Hats and Time. As you might guess, it’s a combination of In Stars and Time and A Hat in Time. (I just realized I could call it “A Hat in Stars and Time”, or “AHISAT”, but that’s a bit wordy.) I don’t have a story, like, at all. Not set in stone, anyway. But I do have a few ideas. I’ll probably post about it later.

AAHHH! I’m really excited to share this. It’s a new kind of art project for me, doing this kind of style swap, but I’m really liking how it’s going.

Edit: I should’ve done this earlier, but here is a similar drawing I did of Siffrin in the AHIT art style, also grayscale. Figured I should plug that.

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I’ve decided to try to draw Siffrin in the AHIT style and Hat Kid in the ISAT style. We’ll see if I actually end up finishing it (or starting it), but I’m gonna try.

So, I have a question for y’all. Is the grayscale thing part of ISAT’s art style? Or is it not—because, canonically, colors don’t exist? Should Siffrin be grayscale even in the AHIT style? Since colors don’t exist in his world, I’d guess no. Should Hat Kid be colored in the ISAT style? It’d be paradoxical, but I think she would. But I want y’all’s opinions.

I had a dumb idea for an ISAT AU and I have no idea what it really is or what it’s about but the name came to be like a blessing from on high and I must share this. Hear me out.

*ahem*

In Hats and Time.

Basically, it is—somehow—A Hat in Time combined with In Stars and Time. Alternatively, if you want to keep half of each title, it would be:

Some Hats and Time.

I know what this means even less than I know what that means.

I have literally no idea how the two would go together. They are extremely different, both in terms of tone and plot. And I haven’t even beaten ISAT, so I don’t know the Deep Lore™︎. I can certainly come up with ideas (I already have one percolating), but I think I should wait on that.