[Art] Homestuck Mandala

[edenfalling]

Done at last! Ever since I replaced my old desktop computer with a laptop, my scanner flips out when faced with images that are colored all the way to the edge of the page -- it basically can't read them, and just scans a random chunk from the middle. So I had to wait a day and use one of my local library's public scanners instead. I love libraries. :-)

I used only the beta kids' god tier symbols, partly because I didn't want to draw Hope or Rage, and partly because more than four symbols would have been conceptually crowded and difficult to arrange. From outside to inside, the rings are arranged in the order the kids are introduced: John, then Rose, then Dave, and finally Jade.

I drew this with Crayola marker and highlighter on printer paper, with some minor touchup in MS Paint to fix smudges and such. The Time symbol's circle and the outer circle around the Breath symbols were both traced from random kitchen equipment, but everything else is freehand.

And here are the three WIP shots, just because: