#lofam

[artatruc]

Almost forgot to post the last track art i did for LOFAM so here's the 6th and final one, listening to Ultramagneto made me feel hella nostalgic so here the lil guys

#homestuck #lofam #dave strider #john egbert #rose lalonde #jade harley #hs fanart #homestuck fanart

[awkwarddoesanart]

My art for Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2!! These are for the songs Sburban Keygen (WORKING 2009 NO VIRUS), Clockstopper (New Game+ All Clocks%), and Penumbral Awakening!

Feel free to check out the album here: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-5-act-2

(by the way, the binary says "IT PULLS THE STRINGS AND MAKES THEM RING," but formatting is evil so it's hard to read)

#homestuck #lofam #lofam5a2 #land of fans and music #homestuck fanart #homestuck fanmusic #dave strider #john egbert #june egbert #spamton

[achrananth]

The track art I made for Galactic Incoherence: Cosmic NaN Propagation by @lordcakespy, for LOFAM 5 Act 2. This track is an awesome journey to listen to, I encourage you all to check it out!

#homestuck #lofam #monckatart #jade harley

[unofficialmspafans]

LOFAM 5 Act 2 Release Date

We've confirmed a release date for the album, and it's coming right up!

We'll have a live release stream on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@umspaf) on September 16, at 1pm Eastern (5pm GMT). Right after that, the album will be available for streaming on Bandcamp and download on a hosting site.

This album may have some of our best art and music yet, which is astounding considering how long the project has been around and how long it's been since Homestuck officially ended. Come join us in enjoying our niche musical tradition— Where else are you going to get this stuff?!

One last call for artists:

The team has claimed an impressive 88 art slots which are on track to be completed by release, but there are still a few songs left that need art! If you're interested in making some emergency art, get in touch by messaging Ucklin on Discord, or emailing [email protected]

(Art used in this post by Circlejourney)

#homestuck #homestuck art #homestuck fanmusic #umspaf #lofam

[blogofyolo]

LOFAM 5 ACT 2 - COVER ART

recently i had the opportunity to contribute to the new lofam so i thought i'd share the album covers i did here! (with commentary)

starting off with probably my favorite cover art for what might be my favorite song: sburban juxtaposition. the track is so good i basically drew the whole cover while listening to it on loop. coloring the meteors was a lot of fun too. rose's pose is actually inspired by miles' leap of faith from spider-man: into the spiderverse (the spiderverse movies have consumed me ever since i saw atsv in theatres, it can't be helped).

next up we have celestial company. the track is very relaxing, i figured it would make sense to replicate that feeling in the art itself through adding pleasant shades of blue to skaia and john's hood. i also added a yellow spirograph for contrast. i think it worked out pretty well!

sunbumper! a very upbeat and energetic jade track. there's two cool things about this image: one thing is a rather obvious nod to the neverending story, while the other thing is hidden in plain sight. it's a reference to outer wilds, i'll say this much.

caliborn's lament. look. i couldn't not jump at the opportunity to draw art for a song that adapts act 6 act 6 act 4. i just love caliborn, and that's all there really is to say on the matter. his comically sad face is probably the best thing i drew for this project.

karkat loses his mind and learns holy c. i tried a different style for this one, since it's for a song referencing templeos. editing the logos and all was a really funny experience. there's also this Pleasant Hoofbeast Drawing, which i never really got to use:

maybe it'll turn out better this time is a title that immediately reminded me of the retcon. in the cover art, i decided to highlight how the joy of the post retcon timeline almost completely overshadows the suffering of characters that we actually followed for years. idk, replacing these guys with slightly different versions of them always felt weird to me.

aaaaand that's it! hope you guys enjoyed these covers (and the lengthy commentary) just as much as i enjoyed making them :3

#homestuck #lofam #lofam 5 act 2 #land of fans and music #land of fans and music 5 act 2 #lofam 5 #cover art #art #music #digital art #fanart #homestuck fanart #hom3stuck #john egbert #roxy lalonde #karkat vantas #caliborn #jade harley #hoofbeast #lil cal #becquerel #rose lalonde

[circlejourneyart]

Maybe it'll turn out better this time: A love letter to all the joy and sorrow that this story has given me

(Art by @blogofyolo)

Here's the first of two tracks I had on Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2, which came out two days ago! I'm dedicating this one to @utopianparadoxist, who wrote the post that made this track appear in my mind in such blinding clarity I couldn't stop making until it was done.

I also have some extended commentary about this one--it's more important to me than I give it credit for.

When I finished reading Homestuck, I was...disappointed. That disappointment morphed gradually into disgust as I watched schisms violently open in the fandom following the Epilogues and Homestuck^2, and in the process I felt like I'd lost something.

I kept thinking that maybe, if I just read the comic again, it would turn out different. Maybe it'd be the story I'd once loved and it would fill me with breathless wonder again. Maybe it'd be better.

But earlier this year, a post by uP crossed my dash after he'd disappeared from my periphery for well over a year. He was outlining his plans surrounding Pumpkin Path, a story he's writing that runs adjacent to the Epilogues and (eventually though not yet?) gives these characters the futures they've earned.

And I realised...the way I'd been thinking about it, that's not how it works, y'know? It's not the story that has changed: it's my heart, my relationship with it. And the best thing I could do was take what this once-beloved story gave me and make something new with it. And that's what many people have done in the wake of Homestuck's end: we've all gone off and made new stories, for which this long-beloved comic was an undeniable progenitor.

It reminded me of a certain recurring motif in the comic itself. Every time the universe resulted in a corrupt or barren session, the players...well, they rebooted it. They left the old universe behind, and started a new one, billions of years all over again just to see where it would go this time.

There was no use in searching for the story that used to be, because it was me that had changed.

You may as well leave that old universe behind and start a new one from scratch.

This is the idea that seeded the above track, and it caught me off guard, because it was the first Homestuck music I had made in more than two years--after I thought I'd sworn it off for good. And then, two days later, Maybe it'll turn out better this time was done. (Two days is, by the way, a very short time for a track to emerge.) It was a small, silly, wonderful little thing, a sapling in the ashes, that proved to me that things could change.

But beyond my track, the entirety of LOFAM5A2 feels especially so. It's a startling breath of fresh air that emerged from so much genuine joy and excitement. I'm happy I got to contribute even just a little work to it and I really, really hope that the fandom sees it for all that went into it. An UMSPAF manager once said that my music always sounds hopeful, but it was never intentional until this one. Thank you to everyone who's made good art that has inspired others in turn, you create life with your own hands.

#homestuck #homestuck music #lofam #lofam 5 act 2 #my music #Bandcamp

[fatuousscribbles]

The LOFAM 5 Act 2 (@unofficialmspafans ) Album finally dropped yesterday, so I'm posting the art I made for the track "Puppeteer", by (Thomas Ferkol / eidolonorpheus on Soundcloud)!

Go listen to it!!

#my art #homestuck #hs #art thingy #lofam 5 act 2 #dirk strider #ultimate dirk #bro strider #unofficialmspafans #lofam

[disegnidipizzo]

oh btw i also worked on the last losaf album (out now!) In the order these are the cover tracks for frostymac's Prologue and koba's Requiem for a Daybreaker!

#homestuck #hiveswap #friendsim2 #my art #mspar #kanaya maryam #hs kanaya #go listen to lofam NOW #lofam #isnt it funny that i got to make both track art and [redacted] for [redacted] #homestuck friendsim #painting

[davorton]

I worked on two tracks from LOFAM's newest album: Derse Dreamers II and MnSttR

I recommand you all to give the album a listen: more than 100 tracks made by really talented composers and features awesome track artists!

#homestuck #my art #lofam #jake english #dave strider #dirk strider #rose lalonde #fanart #tagging it as dirkjake because it is! #dirkjake #dav #Bandcamp

[ender--slime]

i had the honor of getting to draw track art for the latest @unofficialmspafans album, LOFAM 5 a2!!

this one is for “Light in the Darkness” by SplitSuns!

thank you to the whole team!! i’ve been such a big fan of UMSPAF for a long time and having my name on one of the albums is just bonkers surreal :,)

my first track art is here!

track and art commentary under the cut!

Unfiltered version

#enderslimeart #homestuck #homestuck art #homestuck calliope #umspaf #lofam #land of fans and music

[paletteoforder]

My contribution to the newly released Land of Fan and Music 5 Act 2 album! Art for a track called Dusksetter. Really proud of this one.

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #homestuck art #land of fans and music #jack noir #dave strider #lofam

[artatruc]

4th track art for LOFAM 5 act 2 with all the kids! Fun fact when i picked the music to make the track art for it, it was a wip so i didn't know the song wasn't actually 3mins long but in fact 10 minutes long or even that there was going to be vocals so when i first heard the full thing during the live i went "damn the song's wip was already a banger and perfect but now it's somehow 100x more a banger and perfect"

#homestuck #hs fanart #homestuck fanart #lofam #jade harley #john egbert #dave strider #rose lalonde #jane crocker #dirk strider #jake english #roxy lalonde

[jarleypeno]

My contribution to LOFAM Act 5 Act 2, for track 21, Fright Rush by gh0stcr33p.

Homestuck has had such a massive impact on my life and it means a lot to me that I could contribute to such a rad project. Please check out the full album, it's massive and filled to the brim with so much talent and love for this silly webcomic.

For the track art, I wanted to draw something reminiscent of video game box art, some sort of Ghosts n Goblins or Castlevania-esque game. The characters aren't from anything in particular, just something you might see a character playing in the background. =]

#homestuck #hiveswap #lofam #my art #Bandcamp

[achrananth]

Track art for Switched-On Showtime by Not Eno, from the album Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2! Built on the album cover of Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos.

#homestuck #lofam #monckatart #john egbert #poppop crocker

[ludicrousfalcon]

Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 drops today!

Check out the livestream, or the bandcamp page if u miss the stream! Tons of homestuck fan music is on this thing!

(disclaimer: i might or might not have contributed a track to this :3)

#homestuck #homestuck fanmusic #lofam #unofficialmspafans #homestuck music #land of fans and music #Youtube

[teeveenovae]

The Deceased Friends and Family, released on Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 last month, is now available on Youtube and Soundcloud!

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tee-vee-novae/the-deceased-friends-and-family

Don't forget to check out the full album!!!!!!!! https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-5-act-2

#homestuck #lofam #my music #VASKA #umspaf #Youtube