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diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.yaml b/album/beyond-canon.yaml index e259188..f3c5861 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon.yaml +++ b/album/beyond-canon.yaml @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Rachel Z Art Tags: - Jade +- Green Sun Commentary: |- <i>CrepesAhoy:</i> (<i>original track art</i>) @@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ Art Tags: - Caliborn - Consorts - Carapacians +- The Theseus +- Earth Referenced Tracks: - End of Act Commentary: |- @@ -185,6 +188,8 @@ Art Tags: - Rose - Dirk - Terezi +- The Theseus +- Deltritus Commentary: |- <i>ysh:</i> When I got the track (and stopped squeeing) I contacted the composer to ask what he envisioned while making it, and he told me that the track was about Dirk's team's journey through space towards the new planet as well as about them preparing for the game (hence the name). So I did my best to convey all of that. The track uses many synth sounds, or at least *some* synth sounds, and to me that was enough to justify going for the 80's neon aesthetic. I used mainly triadic palette where each colour corresponded to one of the characters: orange for Dirk, violet for Rose, teal/turquoise for Terezi. The theme of "three" is also reinforced by the triangle shape, which I referenced in composition as well as by slapping a big fat triangle in the middle of the picture. It works as a visual portal and also represents the letter Delta (as in Deltritus, the name of the new planet). The idea of actual assembling of the game is referenced through the Venn diagram glyph inside the portal and by those sick grid mountains in the background that I totally didn't trace from some random stock image. There's some more symbolism stuffed in the picture but this commentary is already too long and I'd like to leave some things open to interpretation. Doing track art has been a long dream of mine, and I'm extremely glad and thankful I've been given this chance to participate in this project! @@ -205,6 +210,8 @@ Art Tags: - Rose - Dirk - Terezi +- SBaHJ +- Deltritus Commentary: |- <i>Spicy Nyx:</i> When I listen to the song it makes me think of how much Homestuck has strayed into non-canon and I wanted to draw what's pretty much become the 3 most influential characters of homestuck, looking out at whats to come next has they go further and further out of the canon story. @@ -227,6 +234,7 @@ Art Tags: - Rose - Dirk - Terezi +- Earth Lyrics: |- Smoke is all I breathe<br>Is all you hear, is all in me<br>Taste the drier air<br>There's nothing left Letters fill the empty space<br>There's so much space that's left untouched<br>Running scares me more than God<br>But staying can't sustain @@ -290,6 +298,8 @@ Art Tags: - Tavvy - Vriska - Vrissy +- Cats +- Earth Commentary: |- <i>Twirlin' Curtis:</i> (<a href="https://twitter.com/TwirlinCurtis/status/1249775784941760512">Twitter</a>) @@ -314,7 +324,10 @@ Cover Artists: - zzzealousy Art Tags: - John +- Jake - Jade +- Earth +- Green Sun Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (<a href="https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1249775612799201280">Twitter</a>) @@ -374,6 +387,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ZiJxlnS5kPw Cover Artists: - Skyplayer +Art Tags: +- The Theseus Commentary: |- <i>Skyplayer:</i> This piece started with a concept that is actually explored in other pieces in this album's set: Dirk's departure and what he left behind. Even the same symbolism can be found in other pieces: Theseus streaking across his face, shatters of memories lost to space. Mine started to mutate though, to take on a form beyond my control. My skill to render the memories failed me: WIPs show the corpse of John, the beheading of Dirk, other fragments of the Epilogues. The main decisions of the piece happened spontaneously: fragments of a clock reforming to Dirk's silhouette, Theseus moving from the corner and taking its place as Dirk's glasses. The colors went through many iterations, a volatile photoshop file of hue shifts and stacked filters. The final nail in the coffin for any hope of a semblance of normalcy in this came with my most baffling decision of all: splashing my previous two track arts for UMSPAF over this one. My original monochrome draft for Diverging Delicacies' "Dirk's Dreamers" became the only shattered memory, a destruction of art I birthed but am not fond of. Moons of Theseus' "Unchained" merged with the fibers of space, a celebrated giant looming over all my other pieces. Much like the man this art is focused on, the very piece itself has become a distractingly shiny mirror reflecting the artist's self-indulgent nonsense. I'm being told there's a song attached to this? @@ -394,6 +409,8 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Tavros - Tavros' lusus +- Dream Bubbles +- Green Sun Commentary: |- <i>qsleeper:</i> I was pretty happy when I found out that I'd be drawing a piece for this song, since I've always had a soft spot for Tavros—he's an underappreciated boy! In the end, I didn't really do many different concept sketches for this one. I knew that I wanted a scene of Tavros, in his Peter Pan outfit, staring out as the friends and army they'd worked so hard to gather get eaten by the black hole. The ghosts are just as much the ‘Lost Boys' here as Tav is himself. I was going for a ‘wistful, but resigned' sort of feeling for this, since all Tav can really do now is watch. He knows he's unable to stop everyone from being destroyed—or, as we know now, getting pulled into the new HS^2 universe. So basically, he's just chillin'. @@ -412,6 +429,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Cratmang Art Tags: - John +- Earth Commentary: |- <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/friendly-coy/moving-onwards">SoundCloud</a>) @@ -436,6 +454,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jane - Jake - Tavvy +- Earth Commentary: |- <i>Aeritus:</i> When I first heard the song it just really felt like a Jane song to me. I really wanted to play with the title itself so most of the concept has been Jane (and family) on the making of the Pretty Picture, because when you're in such an high position it's important to look good and pretty, no matter what... right? I Also had a few other sketches of Rose and Jade since the track art of the main motif used for this song had them, but after the updates and the general feeling regarding Jade and Rose has been switched on the bad side, it just didnt felt right for me and the tone of the song itself. @@ -466,6 +485,11 @@ Art Tags: - Jack Noir - Caliborn - Genesis Frog +- Derse +- Earth +- Skaia +- Battlefield +- Dream Bubbles - 'cw: blood' Referenced Tracks: - Four Kids and a Game They Play Together |