#natinkart

gosh how i love you jade harley <3 this has been in my wips for a while but i finally finished it yippiee, sooo here's the sketch i did in uni during class :B

i really love how it came out and I HOPE IT ACTUALLY DO THE EFFECT I WANT LOL

so i always thought that homestuck characters are really suitable for round pin badges, so i started sketching them and then they multiplied out of control and now i have 16 designs... so my new year resolution is to actually sell my art and start doing cons (the second part is more difficult to realize so maybe i can start from the first one?? maybe?? one day)

my favs are john, rose, equius and sollux. like- these four are EXACTLY like i thought them, but some other gave me some problems. for example i have never drawn eridan before this moment, so i didnt know how to portrait his beautiful smugness, still i think i did a fairly decent job, or i have problems drawing kanaya cause i imagine her so gorgeous that every single drawing i do i find it really ugly and not representing her the best way possible. its impossible to represent Mother Kanaya's glory.

in total i spent like- 10h on this and i'm really proud of the end product. my goal was to make them easily recognizable and very vibrant, full of color, and seeing them on this post like this makes me really happy i reached that feeling. at first i wasn't sure that shading them would work, but after i did rose i found out the optimal minimal shading to do to make the shapes pop out more, like rose's bangs or eridan's hair swoosh. i then had a hard time AGAIN when choosing if putting highlights would look good, so i made them colored to make them more cohesive with the backgrounds, as if their hair is reflecting the back light or somtg.

anyways, while drawing i forgot to check the dimensions for the bleeding line, so i was doing the art too small for the pins and i had to correct some of them, especially karkat and nepeta. after i checked the lines and proportions were correct i completed all of the illustrations that missed pieces at the corners. if only i remembered to do that from the start i would have saved myself like 3h of work total ugh but alas im an idiot, so what can you do about that.

also dont say it, i know that every image have a single line of pixels on top I KNOW i just dont wanna save 16 images AGAIN, it sucks. such a pain in the ass to do. so i wont do it again. the designs are fine, you can see them properly so its not a relevant problem.

with that said, ill leave y'all with the sketches for some of them :3