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Fanart: A Hat In Time

This was my first serious piece on Clip Studio Paint! God, it's so old that my username used to be LadySkyravia. I used to be on Twitter. It's not Twitter anymore, so I'm not on there. Plus Twitter was kind of bad for my mental health, even if I did meet some cool new friends there. This is a movie-style poster I made for a fic I never ended up writing. The idea was I was going to take the two Battle of the Bird levels that were attributed to Conductor (Murder on the Owl Express and Train Rush) and combine them together with the goal to make the full 'movie' that Hat Kid was acting in. I combined the two genres (mystery and action) to get the idea for a slasher horror fic. For someone that has never watched a slasher film, I write a lot of slasher stuff. The reason why I never actually started it was because I had a very grandiose idea: I was going to make it a comic, and I was going to have my audience decide where Hat Kid went and what evidence she gathered, thus deciding what ending the fic would get just like in Murder on the Owl Express. COMICS ARE HAARD. The worst part was I started drawing it and then lost it when the laptop I was drawing it on got fried because I hadn't done my monthly art backup yet. Well... bimonthly? My Somewhat Regular Art File Preservation Transfer Onto My USB Drive. Either way, it sucked and totally demotivated me at the time. I still have the notes for it, though! I could theoretically pick it up again someday, and I very well might. I have the various endings drawn out, I just have to figure out their evidence trails. Pictured in this poster are Hat Kid and the 'Slasher' villain, which was masked to avoid giving away who it was. "Process of Elimination" was going to be the name of the fic. If you click on the image to look at it in a different tab you'll notice that it is called "movieposter1.png." Well, unfortunately I never got around to making more posters, but I had planned to. Drawing this was a lot of fun for me! Drawing Hat Kid was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, though. Since it was a new art program I kind of went ham with the tools and did a lot of texturing, most of which didn't even get preserved by the export. She also had proportions that I found difficult to replicate, and getting reference images of the Detective outfit without straight up opening the game myself was nigh impossible. I did learn one thing while looking at screenshots of her, though: she has some banger eyeliner. No wonder DJ Grooves immediately assumed she was a beautiful diva! I had also planned on making a sequel fic that was combining The Big Parade (action) and Picture Perfect (interviews) to make a sort of reality TV drama type of movie, but I had absolutely no concrete plans for that one since I wanted to finish Process of Elimination first.
A Hat In Time on Steam