Most likely looking too far into this but.. you ever look at Squidbeak’s ink colors?
In the first game we have og agent three with green ink, which is also commonly used to represent inklings/squids in official arts as well as the Race War.
For octolings/octopi, they are usually depicted with red or pink inks. Warm or inverse colors, essentially.
For agent four, their ink is usually a yellow-orange color in official art (+section one), but section two onwards they have all cool colors. Also, when it comes to fighting Octavio (+the last section), they choose the color green. But why would they change their color to that in the most important parts of that game? Why not use yellow-orange like they are usually depicted with? More on this later.
Octo Expansion comes around, and we see agent eight with pink ink, as expected for an octoling. Agent three is also seen with their green ink from the first game. But, during the inner three fight, they’re orange instead. This could just be a reference to the first game’s colors as eight has blue, but what if it’s more?
Now let’s look at the third game. New agent three with yellow ink. Close to green, but a warm color like red… or pink.
What I’m trying to get at is, what if these colors are meant to symbolize Squidbeak’s change in heart? Originally they were meant to exterminate Octarians, but now they are working together to (presumably) bring peace to both species and promote unity. To show this, their ink colors move away from the infamous green to a more “neutral” color. Which has a chance of implying that:
three being orange in the inner fight might mean that any hate they could have had for eight is resolved, and that fight is more for the fun of it than hate for each other
four possibly had a more positive idea of octolings until section two, where they no longer had warm colors. Possibly because of the scrolls and hypnotized Callie. The final stages could have too been the last straw leading them to change all the way to green
splatoon 3 changed my life. i can't believe i've already been obsessed with these squid guys for a year. splat3 was my first splatoon game and i basically instantly fell in love with it
This took me way longer than it should. Anyways, here is the video I made for Splatoon’s 8 year’s anniversary. Thank you splatoon for giving us some of the best villains in gaming history
chat … i have an idea for rewriting s2 hero mode …
the objectives will be the same- save callie and return the zapfish. however , you play as marie for the first sector . in the first 10 levels , you’re training a new agent (agent 4 entry !!) , and you two play side-by side. great way to get us closer to agent 4 and marie as characters !!
then add a boss fight where it’s impossible to beat, marie gets kidnapped and agent 4 has to complete the objectives by themself . make the sunken scrolls about the squid sisters relationship and what happened in between !! show how the effects of the zapfish abduction was worse than the og game !! make us see exactly what we’re fighting for !!
i would love the ending to be an oe or s3 type boss where there’s multiple stages of blowing through some concert where octavio is about to attack inkopolis with his BEATS ‼️‼️🔥🔥 make agent 4 free marie !! make them fight octavio and free callie together !! make them reunite so emotionally and prove to us that agent four is completely capable as an agent !!
(you can tell im still disappointed about splatoon 2)
How do you get the proportions for the Homestuck artstyle so perfect?
Made a quick messy tutorial heh.
You need to learn perspective and anatomy because it's important for the style.
The style is heavily reliant on perspective to make it look as cool as it is, for it's mainly used for action scenes. That's why the regular style has their limbs just look like limp noodles in casual character interactions.
As for the anatomy, its the placement of the limbs and how long does the proportions have to look. They don't have to be the same but it is important together with the perspective to fool your eyes and make it even cooler.
If you don't have to restrict yourselves in the rules of the style, you could also have them cool boot legs mixed with the limb noodle style. All you need is and draw it a lot! Art takes time and practice makes you better, not perfect, and that's okay. :]
(Might make a better tutorial soon lol that's really messy XP)