Auburn Arcana 🪄
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Auburn Arcana 🪄
@auburnarcana.bsky.social
🪄 I'm a wandering witch & freelance artist who enjoys Touhou and indie games!

🎨 #AuburnArcanart / #AspiringWanderers / #OC / #Touhou
🧭 English / 日本語
🚫 Original artwork © Auburn Arcana ~ No reuse without permission

🌠 https://AuburnArcana.neocities.org
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We're partially through rendering our chibi! Even though there's not *that* much of a rush, it's easy to get invested.

A game jam session added in was on the shorter side, but just as substantial, too! Check the alt text for some of my favorites from tonight!
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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There were lots of fun games tonight! Many jam devs put good personality in their games. Here's a favorite! galaxygamer102.itch.io/ayas-trade-n...

We also got started on a Lily White chibi! I ended up trying something new with the face; I'm curious about how this ends up!
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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There's one more week for the Touhou game jam! I'm doing just a few more of the games, and I encourage everybody to also try them!

Speaking of Touhou, I'd also like to start doing chibis again. Future events like TouhouFest have my potential interest.

twitch.tv/Auburn_Arcana
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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There was a lot of fun variety tonight! I found a few favorites, but also enjoyed exploring all of the ideas that the developers were trying throughout the rest.

I'll link a few of these to share around!
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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The spriting is off to a good start! This'll be a simpler one - which I'll share outside of stream when the time is right.

Touhou Fan Game Jam 16 is also starting well! There are a lot of quality games right away - including one or two that I got carried away on. ^.^;
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I've recently been trying the public #Allumeria playtest, and it already has some decent structure!

At a glance, it reminds me mainly of Terraria, but also Minecraft, Starbound, and Stardew Valley.

The building QoL is especially promising! For example, blocks can be shaped in a few ways as you go.
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Touhou Fan Game Jam 16 rating is underway! There are still two weeks for 47 games. I decided to try some after all - at least the stream-friendly ones (for my case).

I have assorted art for now - but I'm definitely starting on Touhou chibis next week!

twitch.tv/Auburn_Arcana
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Shovel Knight is very funny.

#CryptOfTheNecrodancer
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Shovel Knight is a lot of fun! The way that he fights foes, digs through walls, and also uncovers floor treasure all plays incredibly smoothly together. I can highly recommend this DLC character!

We also tried Tatters's More Modes mod and some other silly combos! Very fun!
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
「 Face The Night 」

I like to draw costumes each Halloween, and went for a knight & werefox this time!
I also made this for a monthly #VGenChallenge entry, so a "fog" theme is included.
It's like we're on a Castlevania-style quest! Or simply trick-or-treating.
#AuburnArcanart
✦ Total time: ~32 hours
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I figured out how to stop my headphones from auto-playing/pausing!

When taken off or put on, they sometimes send a pause/play 'signal', like a virtual keyboard key. Linux Mint allows many custom keybinds, so that action can be rebound to my own key combo.

It also works with my tablet buttons!
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The lineart's done, and we got to the color flats!

I'm excited to see how this ends up with the render and background tomorrow*!
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I recently made a #ChronoTrigger sprite of my #OC Vina as well~!

#pixelart #ドット絵
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The drawing is well underway! The main poses are fully sketched out and ready for linearting tomorrow*!
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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This week, I'm mainly focusing on a Halloween costume drawing before the end of the month.

I may play Necrodancer on one of the nights!

twitch.tv/Auburn_Arcana
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Cobalt Core was really fun tonight! It was hard to stop playing, especially with the incredible builds that we came across.

This is merely a taste of how crazy the last one got! Lots of defensive power did wonders for this run.
\(≧▽≦)/
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This one's on the experimental side. I may add it later on if it turns out to be good!
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I've been working again on setting up a print shop! I have two chibi stickers planned to start with.

The test prints arrived recently, and they're very colorful.
(^∇^)

The shop itself will be on Ko-Fi once the rest of the details are together - tentatively early in November!
October 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Another round of drafting, and the ideas are polished more! The werefox is fluffier, and I'm really happy with the new armor design that I came up with.

I'll probably use those two for the Halloween drawing next week!

We also played with a cute "princess" idea! I enjoy.
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I'm concepting some Halloween costume ideas this week. There's still more workshopping & sketching to do, but I have these two so far!

#rkgk
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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We came up with two costume ideas so far! I'll try to post them tomorrow - then do some more concepting on Thursday. ^.^

Tonight's weeklies were also fun! Carrie's ability has some useful applications, and Flattun and Jacophix each bring some interesting new challenges.
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I have the layout *mostly* done, so I made a prototype design for the spritesheet template next.

#ChronoTrigger
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I have some more October-related drawing to do! There's a monthly VGen art contest, as well as my usual interest in drawing my own Halloween costume/s.

I'm still thinking about what to draw... ^.^;

twitch.tv/Auburn_Arcana
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Vina decided to do a cat costume for October! She chose one of those fullbody ones with a hood... and made it work.

✦ Total time: ~11 hours, 15 minutes
#AspiringWanderers
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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We made it! We found the final secrets & collectibles, and finished the ascent!

This game was an excellent platformer throughout! It has a unique style, cozy music, and fascinating lore and secrets sprinkled in.

(Speedrunning seems fun to try in the future, too...)
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM