kate holden commentary (tumblr) for portrait and ohgodboss (different from booklet commentary)

[edit to QN commentary is by QN, dated 12/5/2024]

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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml
index d40de780..6e0ff033 100644
--- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml
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@@ -1389,7 +1389,13 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor)
 
-    In the [commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt), this entry is annotated "semi commentary, ask for more".
+    In the [commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt), the above entry is annotated "semi commentary, ask for more".
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+    <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://faisdm.tumblr.com/post/24961982520/well-homestuck-vol-9-is-out), excerpt, 6/12/2012)
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+    Well, Homestuck Vol 9 is out!
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+    Which means I can post this. This is the art I did for Solatrus' fab piece, 'Portrait'. He didn't actually specify what or who the song was about, and basically said I could draw anything for the track art. I decided sort of...portraits-frames-fenestrated panes-roxy-thinking with portals and then this image just materialized in my head while I listened to the tune. Enjoy!
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 Track: Negative Aperture
 Artists:
diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml
index de3d670d..1f0a3e7b 100644
--- a/album/lofam3.yaml
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@@ -2066,9 +2066,25 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <small><small>oh for the love of god!</small></small>
 
-    <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist)
+    <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary)
 
     I actually did two pieces of potential art for this, both featuring Dave and Jade fighting Bec Noir, since it seemed appropriate for an intense boss tune featuring a theme associated with Jade. There was a duller version of this as well as a more comic bookish one. A panel of friends agreed that this one read better, but it was a little flat, so I started brightening it and tweaking it, but still wanted to convey '8-bit', so I started playing around with a square brush throwing in this Darwina-esque square noise, which I thought looked pretty cool. It has been remarked that Jade firing an assault rifle in the air in front of a volcano is metal as shit. That's probably my favourite commentary on the image.)
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+    <i>Kate Holden:</i> (alternate track art, [Tumblr](https://faisdm.tumblr.com/post/52294281017/track-art-for-ohgodwhat-boss-battle-remix-by), 6/6/2013)
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+    Track Art for 'OhGodWhat Boss Battle Remix' by [[artist:kevin-grant|UWBW]] for Land of Fans and Music 3 (coming soon, I hope!!). Originally I drew this all with hard pixel edges:
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+    <img src="media/misc/ohgodboss-wip.png" width="350">
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+    ...but it wasn't really 'working'. It looked a little flat and also a bit blobby up close (something I didn't like about my artwork for [[Amongst Smiling Faces|'Amongst Smiling Faces']] on [[album:sburb-ost|SburbOST]]), which would have taken a fair bit of fiddling close up to fix. So I got out some smooth brushes and smoothed up a lot of the lines and added some glowy effects to soften things and bump the contrast. That looked nicer, but then I felt the link to the chiptune feel of the piece of music was lost. I decided to do something Darwinia-esque, got out a square brush and threw in a lot of square noise.
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+    While I was feeling dissatsfied with the above image, before making those changes, I actually did a whole other piece of alternative track art though!
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+    <img src="media/misc/ohgodboss-alt.png" width="350" warning="blood">
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+    I like this image in and of itself, but discussing with CoLab friends, it was felt that the first image would read better, particularly on a little iPod screen, and also that it was more dynamic, exciting and suited to the track in question.
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+    As you can see from both, I knew I wanted to do something involving Jade and Dave on LoFaF, fighting Jack. [[Ohgodwhat|OhGodWhat]] being, of course, a track that [[flash:830|Jade made for Dave originally]], and this being a boss battle remix.
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 Track: Dogfight (Dirtiest's Dubstep Remix)
 Artists: