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@thegreatitchymatsu

Inky | she/they | 20 | artist, graphic designer & writer |
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possessedpasm

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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possessedpasm

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

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gaphic

I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.

(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)

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neep-neep-neep

you are good even when you are unemployed.

you are good even when you need to rely on others’ help.

you are good even when you are depressed.

you are good even when you are hurt.

you are good even when you are scared.

you are good even when you are overwhelmed.

you are good even when you are not tidy.

you are good even when you are confused.

you are good even when you have difficulty performing tasks.

you are good even when you feel like you’ll never measure up to being an adult.

symptoms are not morality.

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catchymemes
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gingerchangeling

For those who aren’t getting the brilliance- this couple (?) is streaming World of Warcraft and I think are dressed up as their characters. Two normal sized people, one of whom is playing a dwarf. And who takes it upon himself to pretend to be too short to just get off his chair and then, aware that his SO also has her camera going, proceeds to walk across the frame on his knees to give the illusion that he’s actually that short.

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sourearth
Anonymous asked:

I love how you draw facial expressions! Do you have any tips?

sourearth answered:

ooh thank you!! i absolutely do, beware of long post ahead!!

(just as a disclaimer, im not really a professional in this field of art and this isnt like. the be all and end all of advice - just a few tidbits that i found helped me! take with a pinch of salt hehe)

tip 1: use reference, understand anatomy!

a book id recommend is anatomy for sculptors! a google search will give u a lot of useful material - it breaks down the anatomy into bony landmarks, muscle, and fat. u dont need to know the name of every muscle in the face but having a solid understanding of what is going on under the surface really helps …. which leads on to my next point! look at real faces! study them! make different expressions and figure out what parts of the face convey which emotions.

doing stuff like this can be useful ^ a lot of the time i will make the face im trying to draw myself to help me figure it out!

tip 2: think about characterisation!!!

this is soo important imo - don’t just draw a happy or a sad face, think about the character youre drawing and what they are thinking and feeling! people have different ways of expressing themselves, and taking that into account when you’re drawing someone adds so much character. you basically gotta learn to act, and then translate that into an image

tip 3: body language!!!

just as important! body language adds so much to an expression - its more dynamic, more interesting to look at, and more easily understood. as tempting as it is to hide them, i generally push myself to include hands as much as possible because they do so much of the talking. ive found if i get the body language right that alone can convey most of the emotion (although again this depends on the character, some people are mad expressive and other people are brick walls)

if hands are something you struggle to draw - take a photo of your own hand and trace it. i promise it isn’t cheating, professional artists do it all the time!

also! do not be afraid of drawing wrinkles or ‘’’’’ugly’’’ faces. extra lines (eg around the mouth/nose) add intensity to expressions and i think faces come across as quite flat without them. even children have wrinkles when they scrunch up their faces!

thats pretty much everything i can think off the top of my head, hope it helps!! ✨✨

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korodere

TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS

I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.

Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.

However, I’ve got your solution.

Native-Languages  is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!

Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.

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