gamquius is still canon

I can’t believe I actually finished these today… But anyway! :D

The rest of the Christmas icons! Low-bloods can be found here!

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.