Blue fried chicken coming soon

Pouty boo-boo

I'll be handing these bad boys out at dokomi this year But hopefully they'll be up online afterwards toooo

I made this around last year for the MHA tarot project. Though, it was unfortunate for the project’s cancellation. Regardless, I really enjoyed making this piece!　

my favorite gangster

He's very pretty

I just love him 💙

You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don’t die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind….until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes.

curious friends and family: hey why does your kid have golden eyes

paladin who for sure fucked the dragon instead of killing it, thinking fast: dragons uh. reincarnate. surprised you didn’t know about that. it’s a common fact that i definitely did not make up. no further questions

I DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE MY BOY SHINSOU IN INTRO BUT

OH, GOD!!!

HE IS THERE AND HE LOOKS SO COOL IN HIS COSTUME!

Monoma also looks good!

OH !!!!!!!!!

orca mermaid. do u understand

Go where eagles dare’

keeping up with the todorokis

dabi day!!!

baby glutton

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

I'm sure other people have already added some of these but here's a few things that work from an intermediate level and up, because a lot of easy to find color theory really drops off way before that (really I think anyone can grasp some of these, but some of it may be more difficult than some beginners will enjoy trying to wrap their heads around because they get more into the building blocks of how to achieve your own understanding of color, rather than the surface level stuff that’s easy to copy that make up most beginner-friendly tutorials)

James Gurney's Gamut Masking article (be sure to click through to the end)

Another post by him on the same topic

Yet another of his (reproduced with permission) - he literally wrote the best book on the subject if anyone wants a longer explanation of this

Cynthia Sheppard's limited palette video - it's a video and she does spend a bit of it with medium-specific information about oil paints but she has a very soothing voice and watching her paint is mesmerizing. While she goes duller rather than brighter with her limited palettes, I really think it helps to keep things simpler and easier to understand, you can always go the opposite direction once you understand the principles

I noticed a few replies in the notes were especially upset by color wheels and common color schemes (like the sets below)

and I hope the above explanations are helpful for understanding why those are often taught as a beginner explanation when they’re almost unusable for most beginners by being both too simple and also not really successfully bridged through to the higher level stuff. The reality is simply that you do have to have the color wheel in some capacity - even just mentally - (and if you’re working traditionally, that means you need to know how to mix colors to make one) but it’s because the goal is to start playing with it and blocking off parts of it!

But once you do that, the struggle becomes as much about how to pick those color schemes and how to keep them working internally. Which is where a lot of the concepts about “warm” and “cool” start to come in. Because those are often taught as “half the color wheel is one or the other” you can’t really apply it straight from there. In order to apply this stuff successfully, you have to start thinking about the perceived warmth or coolness of colors next to each other to make stranger and more vibrant palettes work.

It may seem irrelevant to talk about values here, when the subject is color, but so much of getting color to work at more advanced levels comes down to controlling your values better and better.

Here's one that gets into value ranges

This one by Jon Neimeister:

As you can see in the first value article, keeping the value ranges clear does a lot to let you use different and unexpected colors without distracting the viewers - the contrast between the colors can be controlled by careful value placement, which is the real secret to using unpredictable colors. I think Jon's does a simpler job of explaining how to practice the value ranges from reference.