"Swarm" — January 14 2022.
Kind of a momentous draw honestly! It was basically the first polished drawing I'd done in months where I utilised my laptop again — as opposed to my ants sized phone — and this time I was attempting to use my trackpad instead of my tablet, which had been giving me a lot of wrist strain and thus enough reason to abandon desktop art altogether… But then came this one January night where I was listening to Swarm by Thank You Scientist, which was very inspiring. I was too lazy to grab my phone to draw, though, so I just started doodling on Medibang and… it led to this!


"ahhh.png" — January 16 2022.
Trying to figure out their attitude here. Their comic urgency's prevailed, I feel.


"Salesman" — January 16 2022.
I was listening to A Salesman's Guide To Non-Existence. It doesn't have much to do with them nowadays… I like the urgency in this pose though. And Pictor being here.


First Reference Sheet — January 19 2022.
They look so weird here!


"yak tranquilisers" — January 21 2022.
Classic image.


"funny.png" — January 30 2022.
Really good exercise in dialogues. Still relevant, honestly.

Initial Height Chart — February 2 2022.
It's always funny seeing the early '22 cast of characters… Lots of blokes who do nothing. They're doing the Most nothing ever in this image in fact.


"if you are srs" — February 7 2022.
Well. This is a reference to this video. It had enchanted me back then.


"uli and dali" — February 13 2022.
I think I decided very early on that they'd be friends of a sort. First drawing of Octant Ce, too.


"dalisay draw" — February 28 2022.
I remember I disliked this one a lot after freshly having drawn it. Eh. It's fine.


February Sketch — February 28 2022.
Not much to be said about it. It happened in February.

"dalisay damn daniel" — March 17 2022.
I think the title of this one references the stupid One Piece video being passed around at the time. Gormless. I do really like the palette here, and the way I operated this sketch was just… loose lines and lasso tool coloring. Very leisurely, very slick. I need to get back to this style.


"Volcanoes" — March 24 2022.
Late night sketches while listening to Volcanoes by Islands. Quite aimless.

"Soul Diver" — April 8 2022.
Their association with Thank You Scientist will never die… REALLY fond of the vibrant colors here. I always love getting the chance to murk down their yellow tones into reds.


Portraits Test — April 9 2022.
Many tiny guys, for you. I like their pointy motion here. They look cool.


Portrait — April 13 2022.
Classic image. I liked sketching out the background.


Winter/Spring Lineup — April 19 2022.
AHH many guys who look weird here. Dalisay was much pointier back then.


"tool lyrics in here" — April 20 2022.
I'm not even that into TOOL nowadays…


"The Water" — April 26 2022.
Referring to this song which I often utlilised to try and visualise the whole control room expedition scene, weirdly enough… I think that was why I wanted to experiment with very dramatic strong lighting. It's a very dire song to me when connected to them in particular.

"Anecdote" — May 8 2022.
I sure am glad I'm cataloguing this vital sketch.


May Reference — May 26 2022.
I don't think I have much to say about references altogether… I tend to just point out design changes as they happen. Regardless though this one's notable because it's the first positing of the pants pockets at the knees, much like a real boilersuit…

Summer 22 Icons — June 25 2022.
Still really fond of the fatigue present in Dalisay's face here.

"Aquarium" — July 15 2022.
The subtitle here apes off of the line "she's the great discovery of the 22d century" from Haken's Aquarium. It's always struck me as ridiculously over-the-top and overdramatic, wanted to postulate Dalisay with something similar in a very magazine cover type way.


Simplified Sketch — July 16 2022.
A test of simple lines and bright colors.

"Luciforms" — August 11 2022.
I'm sure I named this one after the Mars Volta song but the lyrics actually come from Haken's Red Giant. A mid-draw shift in inspiration, I guess. Anyway it was fun messing with the pseudogradient blocks and static…


"Cassiopeia End Goal" — August 23 2022.
Another classic.


August Reference Sheet — August 31 2022.


"Dalisay and Pictor" — August 31 2022.
Short exercise in visualising the control room, though honestly this doesn't match my idea of it anymore… It's too blue, too fantastical and too rounded.

"hallway.png" — September 2 2022.
A depiction of an old written scene — Olzhas leading Dalisay all the way to Isel's train room and traversing his ghoulish extended hallway. I do wish I finished this one off…


"Paradigm Shift" — September 7 2022.
Named after the classic LTE song. Harkened to those air current diagrams for the background pattern… I want to embellish that graphical side of Dalisay's weather motif a bit more! They're also depicted on a keyboard here, I envisioned this as a pic of them working on fixing the train whilst in the control room… Hence the dire positioning of their goggles over their eyes, for once.


Outfit Sketch — September 13 2022.
At the end of the day Dalisay is very much like. An awkward teen who's still settling into finding a motif for themself. I need to depict them in very casual disorganised clothing a bit more haha. It's humbling.


Expressions Run — September 24 2022.
Ugh. Classics of images to me. Every time I see it I tell myself "I need to draw something like this again!" It was nice getting to draw Dalisay smiling.

"Divorce Discussions" — October 15 2022.
Featuring some drafts of Isel and Olzhas dialogues. I just really wanted to get across the body language and gesture composition these two guys have around Dalisay and how it contrasts. I'm still fond of the messy, meandering sketchy comic style I used here…


"Dalisay Birthda!" — October 27 2022.
Small sketch I did for celebratory purposes. Smile. I always imagined they were never too much of a bombastic party type person… Their birthday is practically a random inoffensive date to them.

Dalisay — November 21 2022.
Back to phone draws while my laptop was out of commission, around this time… I like the net of orbs tessellation in the back. Was probably influenced by Mental Connection or whatever that one Psychonauts 2 mechanic is called…


"No Can Do" — November 28 2022.
Yet another instance of shifting song inspirations. I started this off while listening to the Hall & Oates song of the same name, finished it off with DEVO's Some Things Never Change. Messing around with colors was fucking FUN for this one, still really fond of the dimmed down background. It was also fun just making up control room scenery, I think this definitely matches my vision of its somewhat clinical air a bit better than that one August image…


Simplified Drawing — November 29 2022.
It's fun to draw them boxy and small…

Height Difference Demonstration — December 17 2022.
Get em.


Dalisay Animation — December 22 2022.
Drew this on a very cold cozy morning, in a solo Gartic Phone session. I still really like it, and its roughness.


Icon — December 23 2022.
I think I struck a good balance of making them look very serious but also nonchalant enough here…


Whiteboard Sketches — December 26 2022.


Dalisay — December 26 2022.
Drawn by renjamming.