Various Homestuck animation commissions, and some I did just for fun. I used @nightcigale ‘s little God tiers as a reference for several of them, so please check out her work too. You won’t be disappointed.
-Rogue of Breath @joyfulldreams -Knight of Heart @thedoublepp -Heir of Hope @revolutionaryduelist -Lanque Bombyx (Hiveswap) -Tegiri Kalbur (Hiveswap) -Sylph of Space @vermogab, my own avatar, Velvet Room revolutionaryDuelist.
Want a custom God Tier animation, or a fantroll, or hey, anything non-Homestuck too? Prices can vary depending on all sorts of things, but for animations like these: Still sprite: €10-15 depending on BG and its complexity Basic Idle (like the first gif or Lanque): €25-35 More complex stuff: (like the second and third gifs) €30-40
For anything else and to see any more stuff I can offer, you can check my “commissions and FAQ” page.
aw man these are so cute, guys i have the best friends omg!
drawing to satisfy yourself should be your primary goal in any case! when i was in school i had an art teacher who stressed the importance of the five purposes of art (ceremonial, expression, narrative, functional, persuasive) and that the most important of these was ‘expression’ or self-fulfillment and satisfaction. if this isn’t present in the processes of doing art, people will be able to tell.
artists create art to satisfy a need, whether its to get a feeling out, relieve stress, please another person or to feed yourself and my teacher stressed upon me the importance that doing it for yourself should be the number one goal.
ive entered plenty of art contests myself and while i never really won any of them, i was always proud of the work i did because i put a lot of care into it, and i was happy with how it turned out, at the time. if you dont want to enter a contest, for whatever reason, that’s perfectly valid. you do art for YOU. and if anyone else likes it? that’s simply a bonus.
Hussie’s art style is so weirdly unique to where I haven’t seen one person draw it quite the way he does and it’s weird because it’s so simple
And the other weird thing about that is that when you start/ plan to read homestuck the art style is one of the biggest turn-offs of the comic but as you get to the end you start to just like adore it and I want to see it all the time
I think what makes it so great is that his grip on anatomy and perspective is very very good – like, normally simply styles allow for more mistakes in that respect, but no, hussie’s art (the properly drawn panels, not the sprites) definitely exists in a realistic 3D space
But then everything is simplified down as much as possible, and stylised.
The style itself changed over time, starting with very thin and extended limbs
and ending up very round, with puppet-like limbs, and small bean fingers
in both cases you end up with an art style where no shading or lines are used, only block colour in a pixellated pseudo-mspaint style (since it’s not actually drawn in mspaint).
but i think what hussie grasps better than a lot of artists is how to make a character unique and iconic – both in their design and their personality/dialogue. he comes up with a set of simple rules and he sticks to them. not to say he creates simple characters, the characters themselves have a lot of depth, but the way they are expressed is always in one basic format that’s unique to them. they have typing quirks and language quirks and instantly recognisable silhouettes, despite the extremely simplistic format.
that post going around with the two canon pictures of rose is a good example. the range of headcanons for the homestuck kids covers just about the entire spectrum of the human race, yet no one is ever confused about which character they’re looking at.
and yeah hussie’s art doesn’t get enough appreciation
And like… one specific detail I’d like to point out is the fingers. Somehow, he can make distinguishable fingers without ANY LINES WHATSOEVER, and draw them in natural positions without it looking like a jumble of white or grey. Take, for example, the picture that made me notice this: the track art for Crystalanthology. (I’m on mobile so I can’t supply the actual picture.) Vriska’s fingers are overlapping each other and are all the exact same shade of grey, yet you can tell which is which and exactly how they’re positioned. I can barely do that with shading and lines (then again, I’m not the best artist). It’s such a small detail, to the point where I never really took note of it before, yet he does it so well
Flying through Storytelling 