I occasionally draw pictures depicting fan Lands from the Homestuck community. Many of the lands I have drawn were originally described by Classpectanon.
Marcin Bialas is a Polish artist who’s specialized in etchings and drawings in black an white. Among his large production, a recurring theme is dissected buildings and surreal constructions, such as infinite staircases and labyrinthine interiors, an atemporal combination of G.B. Piranesi and Brodsky/Utkin prints. The structures seem unfinished, yet already in ruin, able to plunge the viewer into an uncomfortable feeling. Somewhere between nightmares and theatrical settings, Marcin Bialas’ retro drawings explore the dramatic potential of different projections and points of view.
Description: Since there was no specific design set out for this one, the important things were the two main themes - pine and clouds - and the few hints given by the requester, namely that it be based on the pacific northwest and the consorts would probably be hermits. The hermit part vetoed making pine wood structures all over the place.
Obstacles: A lower average temperature typical of the theme climate plus the supernaturally thick clouds would make the environment deceptively deadly. That much water in the air would make it shockingly easy to get totally soaked in no time at all, and while you can dry off in the sun, staying damp too long could mean rapid onset of hypothermia.
Ecosystem: Cold weather and moisture are nothing special, but animals would need some way to keep all that moisture out. I thought the consorts could be something like munchkin black bears with thick fur.
Consort Culture: Specified as hermits, I thought they might be sort of wandering park rangers, leaving warning signs for each other and repairing worn down tracks and fences as best as they could while barely ever meeting each other. This also makes black bears a thematic choice because of the solitary lifestyle.
A little less exotic this time. Requested by an anon on /co/.
P.S. Screw drawing water with a pencil tool, seriously. I don’t think I’ll ever manage to get that looking as good as LOLAR or LOMAT… oh well, close enough.
hey. youre like. good at drawing. good job keep doing what youre doing
Thank you. I know I haven’t been drawing much lately, but there’s been a whoooole lot going on with SBURBSim, and that’s been taking most of my productive time.
Yes, but I know I haven’t for a long time. Things in my life have been a combination of busy and stressful for a while, and I have rarely found myself in a position where I feel like drawing. Apologies for the quiet.
How do you copy the mspa style so well?!? We're you self taught or did you watch like tutorials or smthn idk
Self taught by looking closely for the major elements of the style - rough edges, flat colour, implied shape, the use of gradient-mapped photography sometimes.
I’ve noticed that when it comes to drawing, people tend to either be better at characters or environments, rarely both equally well. I’m very much in the latter camp, and there are plenty of things about the style that I am pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to replicate, like the use of foreshortening in character shots.
The more you try to replicate Hussie’s style, the more you realise just how good it is from a technical standpoint. There were conscious decisions to make it easier to draw in a timely manner, but the skill level exhibited in the comic is clear as day if you know what you’re looking at.
Oh hey, you’re right. I don’t actually write any of these - this particular one was by @classpectanon, quite a while ago… I’ve got a whole archive of all the previous land descriptions I’ve drawn and will be drawing, and it’s been a while. Corrected regardless.
Land of Paint and Graveyards? Typical dark and gloomy graveyards, but with super colorful rivers? The consorts are skulls that have colorful bodies? I don't know how the requesting works, so sorry if you're not taking requests, or if this isn't how to properly do it on your blog.
That’s ok. I’m not taking requests right now as I have an existing backlog and don’t have guaranteed time to devote to drawing.
Don’t want to make promises I can’t necessarily keep.
Hi, I love the Homestuck lands you draw so much! They feel so realistic in a Sburb sense. Like they could just as well be canon! If it's not to much trouble, do you maybe have one or two tips for drawing Sburb lands? I am currently trying to draw the Land of Frost and Tombstones but I can't get it to look "right".
Oh wow, uh, that’s a very broad question. Beyond “look closely at how things are drawn in the comic and do that”, which admittedly I don’t adhere 100% to, there’s not much I could suggest without details.
