I Imagine Him Dramatically Waving His Arms Yelling Hemorrhoids.

HUZZAH!!!

Your pentiment-style drawings are amazing! What brushes did you use? I'd love to know!

thanks!

for lineart: i've found that the lineart brush doesn't really matter—i just use what's most comfortable. for the conclave drawings i used the RSCO dry fountain pen, and for bavarian miku i think it was a kraftone inker. if you want to imitate the pentiment style, the more important thing is going back over the lineart to get an aged, distressed look; i do this by erasing/coloring bits of lineart with the RSCO pouncer brush (but i'm sure any spotty, textured brush will do).

for coloring: default water brush in procreate 👍🏻

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It’s my birthday! 🎉 Also happy 491 years since the legal declaration of death of Andreas Maler! Anno domini 1534!!! ALSO FINALLY made an official reference for my pathetic self insert OC that no one asked for!!!❤️ (but no srsly this is my first OC I actually took seriously to plan out so I’m happy that some yall like her💔) Here are some Diana funfacts on this special indulgent day! (cringe)

Diana is the second eldest child of many siblings in Florence! Her father is a physician? Merchant? and her mother is a noble woman? so they are somewhat well off financially (Still…a work in progress on that fact). Her favorite uncle is a sculptor and artist. Diana is kind of the odd one out of her family but she has a fond relationship with her younger brother, Jacobo.

Her father signed her off to marriage, one of the reasons is that she is considered “too old” to be living at home, while her younger sisters were able to find suitors much quicker than her. (“I hope she ends up with a cruel old man, that will discipline her for sure!” whispered one of her sisters, gleefully.)

Diana is prone to anger outbursts but these have somewhat subsided after being away from home. She can oddly throw a good punch, her brothers taught her to.

She is classist and finds it hard to empathize with others. This is much like Werner before Act 3.

Oh, Diana hated Tassing when she first arrived here. It took her a while to open up to most of the townsfolk. She’s good friends with Else? but still kept her distance. Distance especially from Lenhardt.

She can’t sew, she’s bad at baking, she tries to help Werner around the house and his job, but he’s fine handling it himself. She feels like she’s not as hardworking and resilient as the other townswomen (That's how she thinks though. Ofc it’s more complicated than that, it is their lifestyle after all. Diana does have the luxury of not working on a farm everyday).

No one in town knows why she avoids the St. John’s Eve bonfire every year. As the player, if you go to North town before joining everyone at the fire, you could see Diana sitting outside her house, drawing. If you strike a conversation with her, you get the choice to say hi to her and simply leave or allow her to continuously talk and reminisce about how her hometown would celebrate the same holiday. You get to even look on what she’s drawing, if you’re willing to. With that, she will open up to you more.

Andreas: Why are you not with Werner at the bonfire this evening? Diana: Oh. I have a terrible migraine today.

-If you failed the persuasion check for Werner at the inn in act 2, in act 3, Werner will be a drunkard and rude to Magdalene. Diana will be a shut-in and her depression is now her normal. They both don't fit in Tassing anymore.

Another Holiday thing yipee, it’s NOT old art this time!!! Ft. BobLainie

This is such a coincidence bc I was looking at ao3 which I haven’t in a WHILE and said “Sigh I wish there’s more Werner/Andreas fics I haven’t read yet” and BAM, THERE IS A GOD. EEEK CAN’T WAIT TO READ IT

This one’s for all (five) of you Andreas/Werner fans out there!

Ok move Werdreas, time for indulgent oc forbidden romance one sided pining aroace I just want to be in your presence aah cringe shit

(Omg I just realized their ship name is Floriana, omg that’s kinda cute)

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RIP Vácslav from Pentiment you would have loved having a podcast

Hi Mr. Sawyer,

Huge fan of your work. I've been curious about this for a while, but are there canonical ages for the characters in any given act? I'm quite curious as to how old the sisters are, especially - for example, Zedna probably isn't too far off Andreas' age, but what about Illuminata, Matilda, etc?

Have a lovely day?

These aren't canonical because they aren't in game and what's in the game may contradict these notes, but this was what I had in mind when I first wrote the character doc 4+ years ago. All these are for Act I ages. Note that all character ages in the doc were listed as early/mid/late + decade unless they were under 20, in which case they have a specific year.

Mother Cecilia - Mid 50s

Sister Illuminata - Late 20s.

Sister Zdena - 19.

Sister Lijsbet - Late 20s.

Sister Matilda - Early 30s.

Sister Sophie - Early 20s.

Sister Gertrude - Mid 30s.

Sister Margarete - 18.

Sister Amalie - Mid 30s

pentiment fans need to stop sleeping on baltas im seriously so fond of him. His cuteness factor...