Nestbound! (Or, Kaz and Rae's bugs come out to play!)

[SandieSandwicheadman]

I think the skhedsprite you did is pretty good with keeping the kaz style, but it looks too small since you just copy and pasted the stuff from the homestuck-style sprite. If you were to re-draw them more in proportion and fixed the wonkeyness of the piston's location, it would look fantastic! (Also he would have no antenna since it's just a shedding, but that's nitpicking :v)

Otherwise, fantastic work with the templates as always!

[Cleric of Zeal]

Old Shkedsprites:


Updated Shkedsprite (it's twice as Shked!):

Do you prefer right or left? Also, just looked at it again, should I change the rubbish crystal's placement?

Torso and Arm templates up as well. I'm going to stop partially constructing bodies and posting them to the template gallery (there are waaaaay too many possible combinations). Instead, I'll add arms and torsos, which can be assembled separately from their components.




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Raw Dad adult Sked resources (which may give hints as to what I'm currently working on).


And realized there was another updated Shkedsprite from one of the comics.


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The Nestbound template gallery can be found here.

[Armok]

awesome!

But the way dad is sitting on his wings looks extremely painful, wings don't bend that way!

[Cleric of Zeal]

Understood, wings need to be semi-rigid etc. They're just raw images of Dad adult Sked ripped from one of Kaz's comics.

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Have some Dad adult Sked. Not too much of him, but I'm willing to make more templates if anyone's got a use for them.










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Kaz's comic sprite didn't use the adult-Sked antennae, I'll be back with the fixed templates in a bit.

[SandieSandwicheadman]

Actually, that's adult Sked, not dad. Dad has more triangular markings. :v

[Cleric of Zeal]

My bad :/ I mistakenly thought that "Dad" was just an adult Sked. Could someone post the most up to date ectobiology chart? I don't have one saved to my computer. I will go fix the nomenclature in a bit.

edit: Also, does anyone know if there are markings posted somewhere for the adult kids? I have this one:

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[SandieSandwicheadman]

The only adult kids with markings are Sked and Taza

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You're free to design markings for the other four. Just know that the trend so far has been to incorporate their title into their markings in some way (Sked's looks like a gear prong, Taza has a literal heart).

[TheFinalWraith]

I feel like since they might take adult forms when they reach god tier or whatever, we might as well just give each bug a symbol based on their Aspect.

[SandieSandwicheadman]

Yeah, that's what I meant by title :v

[Cauchemar]

Zeal, you're doing so much work here, it's amazing. I can't even phrase how much this is going to be useful when the adventure is going to be made (no matter who will do it or when it's going to be done).

And about your question, I prefer the left Updated Shkedsprite, more asymmetrical than the other one. Between approximative asymmetry and clear asymmetry, always choose clear asymmetry, otherwise the viewer of your drawing just assumes it's badly drawn.

(... Is asymmetry even intended in the right Updated Shkedsprite? Or does perspective work like this? Also, were you going for a "beak" effect?)

[Cleric of Zeal]

Reuploaded the adult Sked sprites with the proper nomenclature. Have some adult Taza.
You have no idea how hard that heart was to sprite.


Now, I am unsure about these wings (as far as I am aware there's not really an established design for them, just what's in the axe-Taza picture), but I figured this would be the lazy way to accomplish something by recycling previous templates and I wondered if it was passable. Without further ado:

UNCONFIRMED TAZA WINGS

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UNCONFIRMED TAZA WINGS

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I had noticed the beak effect when I finished it Cauchemar, but I really was just tooling around and didn't have any specific goal in mind. I had the raw resources, so I figured I might as well see what it looked like.

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And as always, the template gallery may be found here < http://s1306.photobucket.com/albums/...oundTemplates/ >.

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And possible adult Kesh? His aspect is life, which is somewhat difficult to conceptualize a symbol for, so I used Hussie's from the Homestuck canon. Thoughts?


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And thus, the boys:

[SandieSandwicheadman]

Can I just say I love Kesh's markings? c:

I dunno on Taza's wings though. They look better than the butterfly wings, but they also look super busy. Also: maybe you should flip the up wings and the down wings? They look like they'd make more sense like that.

[Cleric of Zeal]

Yeah, I experienced similar dissatisfaction with them, it was just an attempt at laziness. How about an X-Men Archangel-ish design?

[SandieSandwicheadman]

I think those look better c:

You probably want to change the way the wings sit on the base, though. You drew them as if Taza would be looking straight at you, but the sprite itself is turned slightly. It makes it look a bit wonky when put together.

[TheFinalWraith]

I'm not really sure about Taza's symbol though.
Like it being a human heart seems a bit too detailed a shape, and inexplicable besides that.

[Zuki]

I'm not really sure about Taza's symbol though.
Like it being a human heart seems a bit too detailed a shape, and inexplicable besides that.

Hmm, perhaps something that incorporates the curves of the aspect glyph, and the way it uses positive and negative space, however?

[Masterweaver]

I actually did design the wingsigns for the adults in my sketchy god-tier fanart. Even if it's in black and white.

Kesh got sort of a leaf-like chest symbol. And he was much more stout.... just saying. I also designed his wings.

[Cleric of Zeal]

Where can one find your sketchy god-tier fanart?

edit: I also think that it might be time to open a new thread? If someone could summarize everything and put it into a new thread, I think it would breathe life back into the project by making it more accessible to newcomers.

[Armok]

That would be a good idea but I doubt anyone is going to get around to it.