Homestuck Tutorials and other Resources
Tutorials and resources for the Homestuck fandom that don't fit in other categories, from Homestuck fonts to Flash animation guides to cookbooks.
Homestuck Fonts
An archive of all the fonts used in Homestuck, from land names, to alternian text, to John Egbert's own handwriting.
Homestuck Art Studies
A series of extremely detailed and thorough studies on the art of Homestuck, from frame-to-frame analysis, to animation tricks, to the exact type of Photoshop tricks Andrew Hussie used. This is an ongoing series:
- Introduction to MSPA Animation: the approach to animating a Sprite Mode panel, core principles and terms, and other fun stuff.
- Save for Web Power User Tutorial: how to make the most out of the MSPA GIF export process.
- Animation Breakdown: John: Collect Cards: a breakdown of the animation of John: Collect Cards.
- Animation Breakdown: Rose: Strife: a breakdown of the animation of Rose: Strife.
- Homestuck Idle Animation Examination: an exhaustive analysis of Homestuck's idle animations.
Fanventure Help Guide
In this guide, classic Homestuck style expert RD42 gives tips and other various types of help so you can make the best fan adventure! He goes over art, writing, and music so your adventure can get close to emulating the MSPA feel.
How to make an [S] Page in 2023 (And above)
A thorough tutorial on how to make an animation in Adobe Animate that will replicate the look and feel of Adobe Flash without actually requiring it.
Flash Extractor Tutorial
A tutorial on how to decompile Hussie's flash animations (swf) into editable or browsable flash files and assets. Useful to see how Hussie made things so fast in practice.
How to Make a Strife Animation
An extremely detailed tutorial on how to make a Strife animation in Adobe Flash CS3. The knowledge within is applicable to all sorts of flashes and animation programs.
SBURB Land and Planet Tutorials
- MasqueradeVirtuoso's excellent tutorial for SBURB land creation, from landscapes to themes to outside views, in Photoshop.
- Homestuckresources' own tutorial (Part 1)(Part 2), focused on the planets from space.
- Radical Dude 42's How To Make Your Own Alternia: Another way to draw planets, especially if they're not meant to be SBURB lands.
Prospit and Derse Environments
- ClockworkRequiem's SAI tutorial on how to make images and environments that look mostly like the ones Hussie used in the comic with little effort.
- Xamag's own small tutorial, also with a Photoshop section.
How to Make Official Looking Talksprites
A guide on how to make a good looking walkaround sprite for your character. Uses GIMP, but we recommend using any other program and applying the methods shown here, because GIMP really sucks.
Homestuck Photoshop Resources
A series of pallettes, swatches and more to use during image editing and arting.
- Custom Homestuck Color Palettes: A big series of Photoshop .ase files, GIMP and SAI asset packs for every palette in the comic, from trolls to text.
- Canon Color Pallettes: Despite the baffling decision to release in JPG form, this is the most complete single-asset resource for canon Homestuck colors on the internet.
- Canon Aspect Palettes: The pallettes God Tier outfits use.
- Canon Blood Color Spectrum: A pallette of the blood colors we see in the comic itself, and only those.
- Homestuck Color Swatches: Canon swatches (color sets) for Photoshop.
Fantroll Art Resources
Some guidelines and minor resources for creating your own fantroll:
- Fantroll Information Chart: A chart you can fill out with your fantroll's blood color, chumhandle and such.
- Fanon Troll Symbols: A series of troll symbols made by a fan with no canonical basis.
Endless Shipping Chart
A ludicrously big shipping chart to ship every single canon character together.
Homestuck Family Tree
Do you truly want to know which characters are related to each other in Homestuck? Behold this amazingly expansive guide.
Homestuck Timeline Project
A series of spreadsheets tracking the timelines of every group of players up to the middle of Act 6.
Art Tutorials
A series of art tutorials by Andrew Hussie on charcoal, inking, black and white and flat coloring. Some images were lost in this copy.
SBURB Guides
A series of fanmade guides that detail the progression of SBURB.
- How to Play SBURB: A 315 page PDF with all the canon information as of 2018 and some fanon. And it's unfinished. No, seriously.
- How does an ideal session of SBURB go?: A thread on /r/AskScienceFiction with many answers and data.
- So you wanna play SBURB: A 2012 guide written in Homestuck Sprite dialog format.
Other Resources
A variety of resources that don't warrant their own section:
- John's House PDN files: A series of Paint.net files (can be opened with Photoshop with the right plugin) for John Egbert's house. Has individual layers for each piece of furniture so you can edit it more easily. Made by linguisticSpaceship.
- Radical Dude 42's Troll Horn tips: A list of tips by Homestuck style expert RD42 on how to draw unique yet good looking horns.
- Every Homestuck Death: A list of Homestuck character deaths, with sources and links.
- Andrew Hussie's Troll Name Pronounciations: Enough said. Obviously you can still say them the way you want.
- Fanmade Tests: Tests you are supposed to fill out and calculate manually. There's one for Lands, one for Derse/Prospit, one for Patron Felt Members and one and two for blood color.
- Quick Character Information Reference: Short lists with everyone's handles, classes, lands, etc. for quick reference outside the Wiki.
- Damara's Text Translation: A very NSFW yet accurate translation of what Damara was saying during Openbound.
- Guide to Sollux's Selves: A guide on how Sollux became doubly half-alive.
- Homestuck Hair Partings: A picture guide made by fans to determine how exactly the hair of Homestuck characters works. Useful for cosplay or fanart.
- Troll Seating Arrangements: Do you constantly forget where each troll was seating in the meteor and desperately need help? Boy do I have the image for you.
- Punchcard Alchemy Excel File: An excel file that shows how holes are punched in cards, the results of different types of alchemy between two items, etc.
- The History of Trickster Mode: How it went from fanon to canon.
- eldritchdraaks' Alternian Logos : A series of existing logos in alternian form, like parodies of Skype, Twitch, Google, etc.
- Sprite Head Guidelines: An image to portray the way sprite heads should be drawn in proportion to the body.
