Katai's Art Dump (Updated: 05/21) The Cookies are Already Here

[Katai]

Hey there. Removed the whole rant I have up here and decided it would just be better to put in a TOC of sorts.
If you like my stuff, you can visit my tumblr at http://bardofspades.tumblr.com

05/21/2012 - The Cookies are Already Here (craft)

04/16/2012 - Happy Birthday (+ficlet)
04/12/2012 - Only Girl in the World (Comic)
04/09/2012 - 2nd Place (Comic)
03/17/2012 - GoodKnight SweetPrince
02/02/2012 - Never Been Prouder
12/10/2011 - Birdie (Comic)
11/29/2011 - My Angel
11/24/2011 - Arms Gone Numb
11/19/2011 - Flippin My Shit
11/12/2011 - Boxes (Comic)
10/27/2011 - Bitch (Comic)

[Katai]

8itch
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/...92/8itch-comic

Prologue: Based on an AU by blimpgato called "PsychoJohn" (http://psychojohn.tumblr.com/). The premise is that Jack Noir stabbed Rose instead of John after "Seer: Descend", causing a branching timeline where everyone dies and John goes murder-mad, ending with John, Gamzee, and a frightened Karkat at the end game. This comic is about when John first touches down on the meteor the trolls reside on.

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AG: John!!!!!!!! Is that you?
EB: vri..vriska?
AG: Yeah, dummy, it’s me.
AG: What are you doing here? How did you even get here?
AG: Not that i’m not glad to see you or anything ::::)

EB: karkat… where is karkat?
AG: huh? what do you want with that loser?
EB: i just… i need to find him
EB: you have to help me
AG: 8luh 8luh but he’s so 8ooooooooring.
AG: Forget about that cra88y asshole.
AG: Why don’t you hang with me for a while?
AG: I make much better company than that stupid dum8fuck anyway.
EB: …
AG: Okay, fine!!!!!!!!
AG: But you know as soon as we find him, he’s just gonna nag our faces off.
AG: I swear, no one is gonna give a shit when he finally trips over his own ego and culls himse…

EB: you BITCH!!!!!!!!

AG: Joh…!!!!!!!
((she’s a killer))
AG: I.. can’t.. 8rea..
((she’ll hurt him))
AG: You.. can’t
((she’ll kill him))
AG: I… thought… I..
((you have to protect him))
AG: John….
((it’ll be quick))
AG: I..
((it’ll be just))
AG: love you

EB: i’ll NEVER let you hurt HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EB: …
EB: vriska!
EB: oh god…

EB: karkat… help me

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Overall, I'm quite satisfied with this photoset, but there are a lot of shortcuts I took. Lack of shading, simple backgrounds, avoided most facial features (though that was partly for narrative effect). I jumped back and forth between using vector lines and free hand.

Panel 2 is probably my favorite of the set, partly because most of that was drawing from brain. Panel 3 and 4 have heavy use of references. The hands are actually from photos of my hands, and Vriska was a virtual mannequin I posed and redrew. Realized quickly that I don't know how to draw lips.

[Katai]

Boxes
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/12691581162/boxes

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Just some AradiaxSollux fluff. I could never quite fit them into a quadrant, so I figure who gives a shit.

Problems: Backgrounds on panel 1 and 2 are too loud. Should've scaled it up a bit and made it more faint. I spent way too much time trying to fix faces in Panel 3. Sollux looked like Dale Gribble the first 3 or 4 times I tried to draw him. He still looks funky (and Aradia's hair looks ratty), but I decided it was better to move on.

[Katai]

Just Because

[Katai]

John/Kat, because I love them

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Birdie
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/14027550957/birdie


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[Katai]

Never Been Prouder
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/...r-been-prouder

Jane on her Big Day.


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[Katai]

Without Shades

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[Drakansa]

Gah, the text on that last one is to clever! I love it

[Katai]

2nd Place (comic)
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/...1287/2nd-place


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[Holly]

oh nooooo not again
oh nooooo my heart, katai
my heart ;_;

Also good work on Jake's pose, I think that's a difficult one to draw.

[Katai]

Thanks, Holly. I have a few ideas on some follow up, but all my ideas are still really sad so maybe I shouldn't do it >_>

[Holly]

Noooooo, don't mind me! When I am in the mood for Sadstuck I'll just come here and cry delicious tears and feel all the feels.

[Katai]

Only Girl in the World (Comic)
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/...l-in-the-world


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[Katai]

Bonus Panel:

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Happy Birthday
http://bardofspades.tumblr.com/post/...-could-run-you



[PsychoJohn AU by Blimpcat]

You could run. You SHOULD run. Any grub with an ounce of common sense would be miles away from their homicidal caretakers by now. But you can’t leave him. Not when he’s like this, and especially not today.

You’ve had numerous chances. By some act of cosmic mercy, the blood glazed boy would occasionally pass out in front of you. You’ve thought about killing him. You’ve thought about running away. But each time, you end up just holding him. You hug him tight against you, hoping that he would be okay. Hoping that when he woke up, he would suddenly be that stupid kid you used to know.

He’s still in there, you keep telling yourself. You can still save him. You’ve already resigned to the fact that you were a terrible leader, but you refuse to let anyone call you a terrible friend. You won’t abandon your friends, even the ones who killed all your other friends. God, you miss him so much.

Today is his birthday. You don’t even know what the hell that means. All you really know is that humans make wishes on birthdays, and you were hoping you could make a wish of your own. Just come back, shithead. There has been nothing you wanted more.

You brush your fingers through his hair while he sleeps peacefully in your lap. He shifts his arms around your leg, and quiet mumbles escape the boy’s lips. “karkat.. i need you.. where… are you?”

I’m right here, Egbert.

I’m right here.

[Katai]

Less of an Art, more of a Craft. I made Homestuck cookies. Actually, I made Homestuck Cookie Cutters (that I can easily make copies of).



Visit this link for more pictures and a link to the 3D files I made to create them.