Pixelstuck

Pixelstuck
Pixelstuck's Discord Logo
Active Canvas 29 - Present Creation November 12th, 2019 Discord https://www.pixelstuck.net Predecessor Homestuck Crew
Leadership
Current Leaders Karma, Defensive_lobster Founder the_v_5 Former Leaders hazard12100

Pixelstuck (often shortened to just PS) is a faction that makes art based on the webcomic Homestuck. On Canvas 28, many Homestucks joined Pxls after seeing a Homestuck character in flromp’s tiktok. The next canvas, the_v_5 created the Pixelstuck Discord server to coordinate these fans.

You can find all their templates and art sources in their discord.

Listed below are links to canvas sections on this page which were removed from the Table of Contents to make navigation easier.

History

2019

Canvas 28

On canvas 28, hazard12100 made Jade. Later in the canvas, many Homestucks joined after seeing this project in flromps tiktok.

jade

Canvas 29

Various users made small Homestuck ministrife sprites and other arts individually. Pixeltugal went over the Terezi that was made in South America, which was later remade in India. User 🐺 the v [5] 🐺#4163 started the Discord server on November 12 to help build a Jade ministrife, which was later moved to a void above India, and finally to California. Later in the canvas, ?? went over the Homestuck art in east Australia.

Australian art before it got destroyed

Ministrifes

Canvas 30

Pixelstuck started with their logo and expanded, making sprites of various sizes. Karkat originally was much bigger, but was later scaled down.

Canvas 30a

Two main projects were made: Dave and Lord English (the latter was made before on canvas 6). Dave had lights added partway through the canvas, this was inspired by a cosplay by Ceondoc#3560. Lord English was originally placed in the bottom right corner overlapping a leaf by pxls.es, which was later moved. Lord English was expected to go under the redstone block and over Avogadro, but later agreed to go under both instead. When the canvas was expanded he was moved to the top left corner.

2020

Canvas 31

This canvas marked the start of making art that wasn’t just sprites, but more varied art in different styles. Vriska and the Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead album cover were made, along with a collaboration with the user caofho showing Dolorosa holding Russia. On this canvas Pixelstuck planned a lattice to help make Vriska’s wings look semi transparent, they were later modified to have the same effect over winter garden.

Canvas 32

For canvas 32 Pixelstuck planned Nepeta along with Jaspersprite. Coincidentally the canvas was also shaped like a cat, so they decided to go with a cat theme. This was the first canvas where the projects had a common theme.

Canvas 33

Pixelstuck originally planned Joey and Dammek without the background. Some smaller arts were added by individual users. After the two characters were finished well before the canvas was expected to reset, a background was added from the original art.

Joey and Dammek

Canvas 34

For this canvas Pixelstuck made the Prospit & Derse album cover. This canvas is also notable for the first instance of the name "Pixelstuck" being present on canvas, as the server voted on an official faction name on February 8th, 2020.

Canvas 34a

Since this canvas wasn’t announced ahead of time, Pixelstuck quickly made two ministrifes for this canvas. Partway through the canvas Veil went over Eridan, but later helped remake him up a bit more and move some projects to make space.

Canvas 35

At the start of this canvas, Pixelstuck made 4 John themed projects. Due to the canvas’s unusually low size, YOIB wasn’t able to fit in many of their projects. PixelStuck, after being contacted and in fear of a war with YOIB, decided to cancel their lattice and allow them to go over three of four projects. Pixelstuck made some new projects to fit in with YOIB’s yellow theme.

Canvas 36

The John projects that were cancelled on the previous canvas were made along with a lattice. In addition to this, several ministrifes were made in Pink Gang's area as a collab, and a captchalogue card was added in the MS-Paint window. Near the end of the canvas, YOIB attacked the Sanses near Pixelstuck after being griefed by their owner(check). Several members decided to independently help out.

Canvas 37

For canvas 37, Pixelstuck did a collab with Pink Gang, and thus chose to have a Rose theme, building many arts featuring either her or Roxy, and making a lattice with a pink background. Because of Pride month, a few arts got pride flag outlines.

Canvas 38

For Canvas 38 they had a Dave theme, with other characters that fitted the red aesthetic, as well as a gear lattice created by haz.

A Doc Scratch featuring his head as an Avogadro Project was built with Pixelstuck as well. Later, a memorial for Spurdot_Tulille was added.

Canvas 39

On Canvas 39 Pixelstuck had a Jade theme, as well as a space background, finishing the 4 beta kids from Homestuck (John, Rose, Dave and Jade), at the start of the canvas they had a territory dispute with Grayscale Pxls but it was resolved after several hours of negotiations.

Canvas 40

On Canvas 40 they did several arts with no clear theme, including the 4 beta kids, 2 Vriska arts, a Jade art and others. They also did a lattice with the Homestuck logo in a rainbow color gradient.

Canvas 41

On Canvas 41, Pixelstuck had a Halloween theme, and had a background composed of the Cascade background and candy icons. They had a collaboration with Awe faction to make the floating space John in front of Jupiter, and a small collaboration with Corner Gang to make the John hugging a strawberry. They also made a memorial of Cascade, one of the most elaborate and loved Homestuck flashes, for its 9th anniversary on the 25th of October.

Canvas 41

Canvas 42

To celebrate the long awaited Hiveswap Act 2, Pixelstuck dedicated this canvas to the game. A collaboration with ManePxls was also built, depicting Dirk Strider riding upon Rainbow Dash.

Canvas 42

Canvas 43

This canvas was created with a winter theme in mind, with a snowflake background and several Christmas themed arts. A collaboration with Legion, the Signless, was created thanks to a growing friendship between the factions. Around Christmas day, Pixelstuck was involved in the conflict around an art sporting a confederate flag, and the diplomatic actions that followed. This also is where the tradition of building an incredibly fiddled kringlefucker began.

2021

Canvas 43a

Due to the small canvas size, Pixelstuck decided to make mostly item sprites from Openbound. Due to their continued friendly relations with Legion, their template was spared from the mass lattice expansion.

Canvas 44

Pixelstuck had a Valentines Day/Shipping theme, featuring several pairings from the webcomic, along with a quadrant lattice.

Canvas 45

Pixelstuck had a collaboration with Green Lattice, and featured a St. Patrick's day/green theme with a large God Tier Vriska and Leprechaun charms.

Canvas 45a

For April Fools, this canvas featured a gimmick where in users had access to two colors determined by their join dates. Pixelstuck made of Dirk in a maid costume, Dave with Wayward Vagabond, and several small sprites. The dark grey pixels on Dirk was originally black, as dark grey was an uncommon color and largely unavailable.

Canvas 46

A blue theme was decided for this canvas, featuring John, Tavrisprite, and other small sprites.

Canvas 47

For Pride Month, Pixelstuck made art of characters and ships with pride flag outlines and designs. The lattice was the troll romance exposition page coded into Betamaze.

Canvas 48

On this canvas, album art from coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B was made. Due to the large scale of the art, a background was not done and instead a very thick outline was made instead. Pxls Town sprites of various trolls and faction members were added after the main art was completed.

Canvas 49

A lowblood theme with the Cascade background again. The link to the faction's discord had to be changed due to the original one being taken down for unknown reasons.

Canvas 50

Continuing the hemospectrum theming, Pixelstuck had a midblood theme. The lattice also came from a different segment of [S] Cascade.

Canvas 51

A Highblood theme was decided for Halloween canvas to finish the cycle from the previous two canvases. A horrorterror lattice was made. Pixelstuck also had a collaboration with ManePxls, featuring Dirk, again. The faction link was changed once again as the relying on the discord boost vanity link was unreliable.

Canvas 52

Pixelstuck decided on a villains theme, along with a kringlefucker to celebrate Christmas. The lattice came from this panel.

2022

Canvas 53

This canvas featured a main art from the Homestuck inspired webcomic Vast Error, along with the cover art from the album Homestuck Vol. 10. Pixelstuck also had a minor collab with Grayscale.

Canvas 54

Pixelstuck had a God Tier theme for this canvas, featuring large arts of Dirk and John. Zodiac symbols were made with a small joint effort from Cells.

Canvas 55

This canvas was the last that featured art from Pink Gang, so Pixelstuck decided on a pink theme to honor their long-time presence on the site. The art featured two modified MSPARs to represent the friendship between the two factions.

Canvas 56

A Red Team theme was decided for this canvas, along with an art featuring the Strider brothers. Because of the canvas's alignment with the anniversary of the webcomic, a small animation of the character John turning their head was made.

Canvas 56a

This canvas featured a gimmick that limited the colors to Gameboy colors. An alpha kids art was converted to the palette as it was mostly greyscale already. Pixelstuck helped in the effort to completely devirgin the canvas.

Canvas 57

Pixelstuck participated in the Fish Collab, creating art of the character Feferi, but also having art of Eridan outside the box as well.

Canvas 58

Pixelstuck had a Pride Month theme again, featuring characters with more pride flag designs. A space lattice was designed with rainbow stars and constellations.

Canvas 59

A blue theme was decided, with the main art matching the art from c56. They were able to secure a claim on one of the sun rays.

They also had a collaboration piece with Schlatt & Co.

Canvas 60

For this canvas, Pixelstuck did a Beta Kids theme, featuring a rainbow lattice.

Canvas 60a

A template with a Dave scalemate was quickly made due to the canvas' unexpected shape, and John and Jade scalemates were added later to expand their claim on a few boxes, along with a small Rose.

Canvas 61

They decided on a Homestuck 2: Beyond Canon theme with art of the four kid characters from the comic.

Canvas 62

Continuing the tradition, Pixelstuck had a Halloween theme for this canvas, featuring characters in costumes and a spider lattice. The cobwebs covering parts of it were made by dia.

Canvas 63

To celebrate the season, an Autumn themed template was made. Pixelstuck worked with Grayscale and Toki Pona to create the shared leaf lattice.

Canvas 64

To celebrate Christmas, they made themed art of the beta kids in a laurel.

2023

Canvas 64a

On this especially small canvas, Pixelstuck made an Alterniabound sprite of Eridan.

Canvas 65

Pixelstuck had a red and blue theme, with their lattice being made by 2v

Canvas 65a

Another small gimmick canvas, a Gamzee Scalemate was made.

Canvas 66

Pixelstuck had a spooky purple and green theme, and adopted a recolored version of the lattice of the faction above.

Canvas 67

An Aradia theme was decided on for this canvas, with a black lattice based on these patterns being added later on.

Canvas 67a

Pixelstuck attempted to work on an artwork of Gamzee during the tipping of the blocks, to relative amounts of success before cleaning up their attempts once their block had fallen and stabilized

Canvas 68

A Terezi Pyrope theme was decided on. The original sine lattice idea was an eyescreaming monstrosity, but it was toned down in a vote.

Canvas 69

Another pride month theming for the month of June, featuring a plaid lattice.

Canvas 70

Green & Red theming featuring a circuit pattern lattice.

Canvas 71

Pixelstuck had decided on Nepeta theming this canvas, where in the background featured 3 different lattices other than the main PS one.

Canvas 72

Red & Blue theming, featuring a checkerboard lattice with a dithered gradient. This canvas is also notable for the link change, as the url pixelstuck.net was bought for future consistency.

Canvas 73

A Halloween theming for the month of October.

Canvas 74

The previous canvas ended before Halloween actually occurred, so they continued the theme, adapting ChE's lattice.

Canvas 75

Several large Rose arts were made, they adapted osu!'s rose lattice, as it fit their theming already.

Canvas 76

A smaller Christmas template, with the kringlefucker present as always.

2024

Canvas 77

Collaboration with the Bag Nation, featuring a space theme with constellations and a spirograph lattice.

Canvas 78

Pixelstuck had a pink and green theming for this canvas. Their lattice of cuttlefish and cats was merged into osu!'s after their pace of placing slowed compared to the other faction near the end of canvas.

Canvas 78a

For 2024's April fools canvas, the characters of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff were created and soon became infested with Among us figures.

Canvas 79

Green Lattice and Pixelstuck had a collaboration this canvas, with the main art featuring Rose Lalonde and Jade Harley.

Canvas 80

This canvas' arts were John Egbert themed, with the link being turned sideways due to size constraints.

Canvas 81

Another collaboration with Grayscale, featuring a pride month theme. The background was a custom expansion of the main art's background done by dia.

Canvas 82

Pixelstuck participated in the Gremlin Collab with a vriska drawn by dia, additionally building arts scattered across the canvas.

Canvas 83

A mainly green/orange theme was made decided this canvas, based on the main art. Conforming to fit the main art, the background of rain/meteors was added, along with some custom drawn grass made by dia.

Canvas 84

For their annual halloween template, Pixelstuck attempted to fit all four beta kids onto canvas, but were not able to properly fit Rose in due to cramming. The character was eventually snuck in a shadow behind zombie-John. The John art itself had to be modified to fit pxls.space's gore rule.

Canvas 85

An autumn theme was decided once again for the time of year, featuring a whatpumpkin logo lattice.

Canvas 86

Another holiday theme, featuring the alpha kids in a wreath adjacent to the one built on along on Canvas 64, along with the ceremonial kringlefucker.

2025

Canvas 87

A blue theming was decided for this canvas, with 8-ball Vriska as the centerpiece for the template. The text above their faction link is in the Alternian alphabet

Canvas 88

Pixelstuck decided on a pink-teal color theming this canvas, featuring a Hatsune Miku and Dave Strider centerpiece. The lattice was created by dia.

Canvas 88a

Pixelstuck, aware of Legion's plans to cover most of the gimmick canvas, decided on creating a small Rufioh openbound walksprite. Due to the small size of their main template, they also had a larger secondary project on the main cloudform. The art was purposely extremely fiddled and unrecognizable as being from Pixelstuck. The secondary art was eventually covered by Legion's penguin and purp13.

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Canvas 89

Red + Blue theming with a side of HS:BC, disc lattice made by dia

Canvas 90

Beta kids, flipnote frog lattice kinda looks like jade harley's head

Canvas 91

Pride month arts

Canvas 92

Due to the canvas coinciding with Artfight, an event where many PS members participate, the faction decided to go for a smaller template as most members would be busy drawing. The Crystal vs. Fossil lattice was decided upon to reference the event.

Canvas 93

To celebrate Homestuck's pilot announcement, Pixelstuck postponed their planned collaboration with Darkhood to make arts featuring promotional art for the pilot. This change of plan was likely for the best, as the canvas was exceedingly cramped.

Canvas 93a

As this gimmick canvas' palette was decided upon very shortly before the reset announcement, Pixelstuck rushed to find and defiddle art that would match the gimmick palette. An unfinished album cover of The Wanderers was initially claimed, with the final version being updated a day after the start of the canvas. Later, as Pixelstuck finished their template early, they worked with Eezu to move their art so they could fit an art of Dirk in.

Canvas 94

The previously postponed collaboration with Darkhood was built this canvas. The background color chosen was Maroon, with several Homestuck-related mini-arts built to fill the space between their arts. The rate of completion for the background + mini-arts for the collaboration was notably slow, with the collaboration leaders hoping for ManePxls' purple lattice to cover their background. The majority of the background was completed with the assistance of several placers after most projects and lattices on the canvas finished up.

Canvas 95

Due to seasonal downturns in placing power, Pixelstuck's project required help from volunteer users to be completed. A lattice was not planned.

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Canvas 96

Pixelstuck celebrated christmas with a Lord English red/green themed template, with the annual kringlefucker and a few cherub arts added after the main art was completed. The lattice was originally created by Nanineye to fit in between the cog spaces, but was freehanded-ly expanded.

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Misc Details of Note

Historically, Pixelstuck is a neutral faction with few true alliances. They had friendly relations with Pink Gang, ManePxls, Green Lattice, and Grayscale, demonstrated by their collaborations across the years. Although their members may engage in canvas conflicts, Pixelstuck mostly does not.

Pixelstuck does not have a traditional hierarchy, but prominent members who have demonstrated great contribution are often sacrificed upon a Quest Bed or Sacrificial Slab to ascend to God Tier. It's leaders are generally in charge of operations, but in current times the responsibilities have been offloaded to other prominent members who have free time to do so.

Pixelstuck uses a rough calculation of 3-5% of the canvas size for their templates, pre-lattice. This value may fluctuate higher or lower depending on season or if they are participating in a collab.

Positive relations between Legion and Pixelstuck progressed to a point where diplomatic faux-marriage alliances were proposed between high ranking members of both factions. "Marriage Contracts" were used to facilitate the connection but they have also been used internally between faction members.

On Legion off-canvases, a few members of the faction can be seen active on PS templates.

Types of Art

Pixelstuck uses several types of art pieces when creating their templates. They can be categorized by their method of creation. There will usually be 3-5 different artworks used per canvas, sometimes more or less depending on the size of both the arts and the canvas.

Sprites

Much of the smaller art pieces on Pixelstuck templates come from panels or interactive pages from the webcomic itself. These sprites usually are already pixel art, and can be converted to the pxls.space palette easily. Due to their simpler nature, it is common for fans to make their own variations on such sprites, either by making new outfits, or spriting different characters in the respective styles. The smaller arts are often used repeatedly across canvases.

Ministrife

These sprites come from the page [S] [A6I3] MINISTRIFE!!!, and feature downsized versions of characters with different outfits.

Alterniabound

Originating from an interactive flash page, these sprites are usually less than 500 pixels large and are often added to templates after the main art is complete to fill gaps around Pixelstuck's plans.

Downsized

The main sprites used in the webcomic for the characters need to be downsized before being useable on canvas. They have fallen out of use as they often do not convert well.

Misc.

Sprites from other parts of the comic have been made, examples including talksprites, openbound walksprites, and original scale assets.

Symbols

Troll, kid, aspect, and other symbols are common additions to templates usually near the end of a canvas.

Original Art

Occasionally, Pixelstuck members will make original pixel art that can be put on canvas. This comprises a small percentage of art made.

Converted

Homestuck fan-made pixel art is often converted to the pxls palette and built on canvas.

Defiddled

A good majority of present-day Pixelstuck art has been manually downsized and recolored by the artists in the faction.

Statistics

Character Frequency

Mainly counting unique arts, ministrifes are weighted 0.5 and alterniabound sprites 0.25. Frequency is taken from main PS templates, excluding any projects built independently from it, but arts built by members may be added to the count due to proximity.

Name	Frequency (±3)	Dedicated Canvases
John	80.5	2
Rose	56	2
Dave	63.5	1
Jade	55.25	1
Aradia	41.5	1
Tavros	14.74
Sollux	18
Karkat	41.5
Nepeta	38	2
Kanaya	24.75
Terezi	22.25	1
Vriska	27.5
Equius	10.25
Gamzee	11.25
Eridan	21
Feferi	18
Exiles	16.5	1

Name	Frequency (±3)	Dedicated Canvases
Jane	13.5
Roxy	24
Dirk	26	1
Jake	13
Damara/Handmaiden	6
Rufioh/Summoner	2
Mituna/Psiionic	3
Kankri/Signless	4.5
Meulin/Disciple	4.5
Porrim/Dolorosa	3
Latula/Redglare	3
Aranea/Mindfang	3
Horrus/Executioner	1
Kurloz/Highblood	2.5
Cronus/Dualscar	1
Meenah/Condesce	7
Hiveswap	25.5	2

Dual color canvases (i.e .red-blue, red-green) are weighted as 0.5 canvases each.

Theme	Frequency
Beta Kids	5
Red	3
Blue/Teal	5
Green	3.5
Purple	1
Yellow	1
Pink	2
Orange	0.5
Hemospectrum	3
Halloween	5
Pride/Ships	6
Holiday	5
Collab	19
Album	4