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i'm participating in @green-with-envy-phandom-event for the first time :D despite how busy my march got, i've gotten some things coloured!

first is this fun lineart by @pineconewithapencil!! when i saw it, i thought "what if i put wes weston into a situation?" and i stand by that it's a great decision. he's stuck in the ghost ages :}

happy truce @lexosaurus !!

sorry for the wait!!! i liked a lot of yr prompts and had too many half-ideas :'D but i saw "huntress at the holiday truce" and "grey ghost" and blacked out until this was on the canvas (/j) the beloveds...

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!

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.

Dang y'all like old art!! Here's a couple resources too for those who wanna learn some more :]

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ADDITION: I KEEP MEANING TO MENTION THIS-- YOU CAN SET YOUR CANVAS TO CMYK INSTEAD OF RGB FOR BETTER COLORS! :D

CMYK is meant for printing, while RBG is a light spectrum color setting.

the notes i got? ~300 on Tumblr, ~200 on Twitter. and it’s one of my more popular arts.

the notes the repost has? ~15.000 and still growing a few hundred every hour. traffic, likes, comments, interaction, recognition, praise, all of it going to a person who, with one click, stole something i spent hours making and years learning.

if I see art I like and want to see more of it, Credit is what gets me to the artist so I can see more of it.

If I’m writing a novel and I see an art style that would be perfect for a cover design, credit is what gets me to the artist so I can pay them for a commission.

If I see something I know my partner would love, credit is what takes me to the website of the artist where I can buy a poster that the original artist gets paid for.

If I see Plagiarism, I need to know who to notify to stop stealing my art, and if they don’t who to report.

Most artists (even the ones with thousands of followers) have a hard time making a living off of art. Giving credit means giving a pathway to the source.

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

“ Hey Rich, what do you think about Chloe? ” RICH:  We run this fucking school, LOL. Didn’t you know?

an updated redraw of a panel from 2019, now in colour!!  i love these two so much, y’all, i’m happy to give them a glow up here!!

full image ID & old panel comparison below the cut <3

after a few months of work, here’s a main character height chart! there’s more I could add to this but I needed to stop lest I go on forever.

this also shows everyone’s full-colour, full-body outfits! :D (most of which are for day 1, But Haha not everyone is getting an outfit chart in addition to this.)

heights in image + alt text + below readmore!

AYYY another Palette & Expression Meme, look at that. You may have to zoom in for details lol. 81 Expressions and 50 Palettes, go nuts guys.

Reposting anywhere but tumblr is okay with credit.