pebble i just adore the way you draw galekh, i must see more of that bookworm
WFKSKDKAKS REALLY? Thank you eeek I really love drawing him I'm glad people like how I portray him
I don't have anything too recent, at least nothing in any good quality LOL just doodles from the other day… I hope this suffices for your bookworm thirst
Here’s my rendition of the Homestuck kids as trolls. I used preexisting canon (or postcanon) trollsona sprites as a jumping off point, though for some I couldn’t.
(Here’s the trolls as kids!!)
Design explanations will be under the cut.
Jake English: I chose to make Jake burgundy due to the Hiveswap description. I personally am not too much of a fan of these descriptions, as they really only apply to the main twelve trolls, if even that, but I was otherwise lost on Jake. His socks are indigo to reference the Alternian idea of wearing the blood color of someone you share a quadrant with, especially as a lowblood, to signify that you shouldn't be messed with. His horns are taken from Calliope's trollsona, as Jake is the closest relative to Lord English, and there's probably some symbolism there. As for the name "Jaking Enlish", I simply scrambled his original name a bit to make it fit the 6x6 naming conventions.
Dave Strider: I chose to make Dave gold due to his early shown proficiencies with tech. The horns are taken from his canon trollsona, and them having two starting points before merging into a single horn at the tip is similar to that of a few background Hiveswap trolls. His name is a reference to Davesprite, being a crow.
Roxy Lalonde: She is very connected to cats, even down to her human symbol, so who am I to get rid of that connection? Her horns are meant to look both like cat ears as well as hearts, and her hair was reshaped a bit for a spikier appearance. Her dress is her party dress, and, as seen in Jake's trollsona, Roxy too wears the blood color of someone she is in quadrants with. Her name isn't too much of a change.
Jade Harley: I made Jade jade because I thought it was funny, that is literally it. Her original trollsona was pretty good, and I replaced her god tier fit with a sort of horrid amalgamation of some other fits. Now that we've seen Fiamet with a tail, I figured I could give Jade one as well as ears, and I figure her working in the brooding caverns gives her a much lower likelihood of early culling. She also does breed the frogs, so that's got to be worth something. Her shoes are red because red seems to be one color which numerous trolls of all castes accessorize with, and her name is a combination of - you guessed it - the words "Jade" and "pup", with her last name remaining the same.
John Egbert: John gets to be a tealblood almost entirely due to his father. He's an unassuming guy from the suburbs who does menial officework. This also seems to be the fate of many tealbloods, so boom. Teal John. His horns are similar to those of Xefros, as, again, unassuming protagonist guy. I did give him sharper teeth, though, as burgundy bloods are the only caste with dull teeth, and I also fixed up his hair a bit. His name comes from a combination of "John" and "June" because I am a fan of both, and again, his last name remains the same.
Dirk Strider: The ties between Dirk and Equius are unavoidable, of course Dirk is going to be indigo. His horn is taken from his trollsona. His name is just "Dirk" but fancier and longer.
Rose Lalonde: Violet because of the horrorterrors. Took her original trollsona and gave it piercings because she's simply too goth not to. I also changed up her original dress a bit, made it more vibrant and closer to violet. Her name follows Roxy's pattern, but now with a closed consonant to end it off.
Jane Crocker: If you didn't think I was going to make her fuschia, you don't understand the depths of my autism. Her entire family line is fuschia, what other color COULD I make her?? Her trollsona is so baked into her appearance here, alongside her crockertier form. Still, Jane is butch in my heart of hearts, so she got to wear a suit instead of a dress (taken from Dave's sprites) and her pair of shorts and slippers(?). Her name is taken from her friend's nickname for her, "Janey".
Humanswap Teals are definitely stage crew theater kids:
▪︎ Stelsa, a whole stage manager and honestly the best one ever. Your costume ripped? She's pinning you in. Need a new prop? She's already trying to find it on Etsy or talking to prop manager about it. Too nervous to get on stage? She's about to give you the prep talk of your LIFE. She's also club secretary.
▪︎ Tagora is definitely the makeshift house manager and club treasurer, though he believes he should be VP but that's a different story. He's not only helped Stelsa in getting posters up and drumming up interest for the shows, but he handled the budget for concessions and actually helped the club make a profit for trips and other activities. This man knows how to get and exploit keep a crowd.
▪︎ Tirona is really good with props and costumes? She gives me the energy of someone who really likes costumes and would keep track of how where they are, what goes to where and takes notes for the costumer when someone's costume falls apart or isn't fitting.
▪︎ Tegiri is a light and sound tech, you cannot convince me otherwise. He has such a dramatic flaire, especially for lightning cues and design... The Drama teacher kinda let him have at it, and the bar has never been set higher. Every dramatic enterance will be dramatic, thank you.
▪︎ And Tyzias... You know that kid, who helps with set but seems like they really kinda don't like theater but they're there and helping because their friend roped them in? That's her. She'd rather be home or at one of her other clubs, but Tyzias is oddly enough really good at building and is actually strong enough to push sets, so Stelsa voluntold her she was joining stage crew and set crew. So she's here and tired as ever.