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## How do you guys manage to get your art style looking exactly like MSPA?! Do you have any tutorials you could give? (I saw one somewhere but it was too vague to get much help from it.)

I can’t speak for the art team as a whole, but I know that I personally had to figure this out at the start of the project, because I didn’t have any personal experience with the MSPA style.

I began by combing through the source material and saving a bunch of panels. I particularly tried to look for panels in which the entire figure was visible, so I could get an idea of how Homestuck characters are proportioned, and a feel for the gestures.

The canon art style is actually pretty variable, especially comparing the earlier acts to Act 6. Having exactly the same color palette can cover for a variety of sins, because in Homestuck that’s a big part of looking “right”.

Considering the size of the fandom, it really is surprising that there aren’t more MSPA style art tutorials, isn’t it? That might be something fun for Team 8 to try to put together if some of us can get the time.

(Momo, if you want to edit this to add your thoughts, have at.)