You Draw Tavros Ugly And You Need To Stop. Or Be Better. Because Your Fucking Bad At It.

You draw tavros ugly and you need to stop. Or be better. Because your fucking bad at it.

Oh I’ve actually been working on that!!!!

Okay so basically like half a year ago I realized I didn’t like my art style and decided to do some Homestuck art studies as a means of getting better at like anatomy and stuff, and that’s where the Tavros on the left appeared from.

After I’d gotten the hang of it I started to reintegrate some of my old stylistic choices, as seen by the Tavros on the right. But honestly I felt meh about both of them cause neither of them line up with my previous portrayals/personal view of the character.

(Old art, circa about a year or so ago^ Shows I used to draw Tavros with less of a lanky body and more fat.)

So I finally decided to buckle down and get the character right and this was the result!

Now I’ll be the first to admit that it’s probably not perfect, but I’ve finally gotten to a point where I like how I draw Tavros again!!!!

The og Homestuck style has like, a lot of variation, and hero mode is honestly wayyyy more vast of a “style” than people give it credit for. Personally, I like to refer to each Homestuck style more by act/place it appears in comic rather than just blanked “hero mode” or “sprite mode,” because I like to integrate THOSE specific influences into my art.

With Tavros specifically I’d like to say the rounder shapes call back to the mixed sprite/hero mode that we see in Tavros’ introduction, as opposed to perhaps Sollux’s introduction panels, where his limbs are rigid and angular, and definitely more “hero mode,” which causes one to view the character as lankier/skinnier.

Either way, I’m still working hard at getting good at striking poses and not falling into “same body type syndrome,” as is often far too easy to fall into. In the past I found it difficult to draw skinny/lanky characters because I wasn’t super used to it, and as of recently I’ve been doing them wayyyy more but I still have an easier time drawing thicker/fatter limbs and stuff. If you’ve got any criticisms or the like, I’m happy to hear them!!!! Always looking to get better eventually :p

aranea do be kind of a whore though

I hope you know that when I got this it felt like Vriska Serket herself was coming out of the woodwork to tell me this, (because of your url and pfp.)

I am SOOOO effing bored rn. Smh

i hope u know that each time i see any of ur posts while im scrolling i cant help but think of you as the op who just makes banger fucking posts each time. like gen srs

I mean this sincerely but comments like these make me so happy I get genuinely nauseous. Thank you so much!!!!

If Dirk were to ever go grimdark than it would force Hal into being the of voice of reason, something he rarely takes seriously.

Anyway do you guys ever think about how our generation’s formative years will always be defined by the fact that everyone is famous and no one is a hero? Or is that just me?

things are happening .