one of the things that kind of bugs me about a lot of the Homestuck fanart i see is that they dont l
one of the things that kind of bugs me about a lot of the Homestuck fanart i see is that they dont look like teenagers. Dave Strider is a gawky and complicated sixteen years old; you better believe he has acne and a shitty fuzzy moustache he just hasn’t quite gotten around to shaving yet. i mean they’ve been without parents for three years; it’s a miracle nobody’s pregnant. i can’t imagine they’re anything but gangly, loutish, spotty, greasy and infinitely sensitive, infinitely aware that they are all of these things, that they are hurtling out of control towards a horrible destiny. i love that about homestuck–it encapsulates (not neatly, either) the experience my generation and this one had growing up and inheriting just, GARBAGE. an impenetrable mess with byzantine rules, objects nearly impossible to interact with much less comprehend, and the necessity to just start throwing punches and hope you get out alive, all while clinging to your internet friends just to keep from going crazy. and in a sense all pubescent experiences go something like that, but i draw a definite comparison from the frenetic, aching crisis of Homestuck, and my own process of realizing how fucking terrible things had gotten, how badly we, in particular, had been screwed.this is just a really quick and shitty doodle i did to try out some watercolor brush options so don’t take it real seriously but i’d really like to pursue this concept a little–part of the magic of the story is in their intense awkwardness, and i don’t see that very strongly conveyed in most of the fanart. but i don’t look at much homestuck fanart so i bet i am missing the classics. -- source link
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