Mister-Saturn

Trying to get back into drawing for myself a bit. Here’s a doodle of Mae to break the ice...or the lightbulbs or whatever.

I’ve changed up how I draw her a few times ahahaha

As a Christian person (or at least one that’s been trying all his life anyway haha), I love Mae’s mom in Night in the Woods. I like that a game written by from what I can tell, atheist people, accurately depicted her faith without making her a negative influence.

Mae’s mom reminds me so much of mine. Gently nudging me towards going back to church and even talking to me about God when I’m open to it (and I mean I’m much more open than Mae is but you know) but never being an overbearing presence. It’s refreshing. And while we’re on the topic, Pastor Karen too. But with her I like that even as a pastor of the church she still comes off as incredibly human, having her own doubts and struggles. Because people often forget that just because someone’s an important religious figure doesn’t make them less human and doesn’t mean they don’t struggle with their beliefs as well.

Just kudos to this game for not painting religion as nothing more than the big evil of the world that people seem to believe it is nowadays. It has caused problems for sure, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just happy to not see it under attack for once.

That or maybe I’m just tired of watching my own faith lose any credibility because of both non-believers and believers alike.

I was browsing around and realized someone beat me to the NITW fansong punch. Someone else already wrote up an EP of songs :U

Ah well. I mean I’ll still make mine but I’m nervous that by the time I finally get to finishing it the NITW hype will have died down and no one will care.

Problem is I can’t do anything until my brother’s bf gets a computer again which I’ll probably help him pay for but I also need to get off my lazy rear and start recording. The writing is almost done. I just have to tweak the intro song and the song about Angus and then finish writing the song about Germ and the songs will technically all be written save for some tweaks I might make here and there between now and when I finally record them.

I’ve never made an album before. It’s really intimidating and I’m starting to get nervous about the songs and if they’re even good.

I can’t wait to get to finishing songs for this album I’m writing.

I’m working with a good friend who does production to both mix it and help fill out the sound with synthetic instruments while I record all the acoustic instruments and vocals and do the writing. It’s going to be a sorta indie, singer-songwriter acoustic thing with electronic elements hopefully. We’re both new to this.

It’s entirely inspired by Night in the Woods too! Each song (save for the intro and outro) is about a certain character while still keeping it vague enough where you can enjoy the songs on a personal level. Plus pretty much EVERY important character had something I could connect to personally so I focused on those aspects of them.

It’s gonna have 10 songs on it. I have a tracklisting of songs already and like most of them are written already! When I can finally get to finishing it up (which will probably be a while, cause my friend needs to get his computer back up and running with all the software he had) it’ll be posted on a bandcamp page.

The album is called The Death of Small Town and the tracklist (and associated characters) so far is this:

1. The Death of Small Town (intro) 2. This Isn’t Happening (Mae) 3. The Arts 1 & 2: Stupid Words/Broken Tracks (Selma and Lori M.) 4. Mayday (Maybe) (Bea) 5. I Got the Rabies (Germ, also tentative title will likely change) 6. A Knife Fight on a Bright Night (Gregg) 7. Daily Bread (Pastor K and Bruce) 8. Be My Corner (Angus) 9. Die Die Die (Casey) 10. Bless This Mess (outro)

I have a demo for “A Knife Fight on a Bright Night” up on my soundcloud right now if you wanna hear it (https://soundcloud.com/jesse-robert-giesselman/a-knife-fight-on-a-bright-night-demo)

Either way I’m looking forward to releasing it later on hopefully this year or early next year and hopefully looking forward to doing more work with my friend and maybe make a project out of this.

Can we talk about Angus for a second?

Out of all the group in NITW, he has it the most together. Mae is stubborn, refuses to grow up and clearly suffers from some sort of mental illness or something that causes her to disassociate badly. Bea is horribly depressed and can’t get out of her own way to take care of herself cause she cares too much about her father after losing her mother (at least I assume). Gregg has crazy mood swings and serious self-doubt.

Then there’s Angus. Outside of leaving work early sometimes to go hang out with his friends, he’s not out committing crimes, he seems to be relatively stable mentally and emotionally, is sort of the voice of reason and as Bea put it, the “glue that holds them together”. From what I can tell he’s also Gregg’s impulse control hah.

Yet of all of them, he has the absolute worst history, being terribly abused by his parents. He went through all of that abuse and turned out to be an okay person who has it relatively together. He could have been a miserable person. He could have suffered horrible depression like Bea or even ended up abusive to Gregg cause of his past, but nope.

Maybe I’m missing some details, but from what I see, Angus is an inspirational character.

Here’s Mae reminding you to be BODY POSITIVE ... but i mean seriously be happy with yourself I’m sorry it’s late I don’t know what I’m doing anymore lol

Here's a late night doodle of Gregg and Angus smooching The ultimate gay couple okay? I haven't gotten drawing Gregg or Angus yet and I never draw smooching so this probably looks really bad hahah

In transparent and not so transparent

EXPECTATION

REALITY

I thought Gregg was gonna be that “cool friend” before I started playing... I wasn’t entirely accurate. He’s such a dork and I love him.

I might cosplay him. Also sorry I’ll do proper fanart soon but I still don’t have a grasp on how I wanna draw the NITW characters