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my finale two mass attacks! I wanted to riff off a similar composition and maybe color palette but give them both totally different tones…
characters belong to Jay_Abracadabra, ~Ham_2345, @starfruitd, ~saver, @kidoblivion, ~Apearcity, ~Telecat, ~littlexghost, ~Imperatori, and @strawberri-draws !
artfight part two!! I did pretty much all of these on one canvas …erm….
characters belong to ~R00kiery, @halfassedtea, ~LaLanja_art, ~Cyward_art, ~Pooshly, @jetsetclassic, and tak000!
and that’s a wrap for artfight part 1!! thank u all so much for the art of my ocs 🥳
characters belong to ~calabash, @kiwi-smug-silvalina , itsrigel, ~olivoliv, ~kimh34rt, and ~reeeyart!
eclipse
Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam.
“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.
A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”
misc sixth year month drawings
LOOK AT MY OCS, BOY
twitter nintama doodles. ASSORTED PARO ATTACK!!!
basically
to the ones that encouraged me
to the ones that encouraged me
Hi! Already announced this elsewhere but my art school portfolio is now in file form for your enjoyment on gumroad for about 5 usd! includes a pdf of all the drawings i did with commentary, a demo reel, and a storyboard pitch. lmk if there's any difficulties accessing or something similar :)
i! ro! ha! (six years edition)
me when i forget to post anything. memorial service of old art and abandoned wips from 2023 i released as a hurrah for the new year
commentary: x
nindraw 10: artistic growing pains
please stay by me!
oomfs started playing a certain visual novel recently
i looooooooove your darkest dungeon art sm. the colours are so!!! pretty!!! welcome to the trenches!
EEEK thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
save me rarepair with only like two dedicated people who make stuff for it that haven't been active in over five years...save me...
doing this really cool thing in darkest dungeon lately called forgetting to check any of my character's stats before embarking
ummmmmmm guys this dungeons looking a little dark here..........................ummmm..... hello??? guys??
HADES 2
Yoooo I have no clue for what you draw fanart for but your artstyle is sick as hell!! It's so nice!!!
HI omg sorry 4 being the world's latest responder ever...thank you so much!!
i! ro! ha!
how do you get your colors to look so nice and your lineart so red and vibrant? i love it
omg anon thank you!! 😭 im going 2 be honest I am Not Great with color theory... but i like having my sketch pages look cohesive to me...
BUCKLE UP this is going to need a readmore bc i like talking.
I always sketch in neon colors it's a habit i picked up from an old teacher but I'll think of a color usually on a whim and draw with that. and then if i want to draw something else ill pick another color that i think goes well with the page. usually most of my color schemes r analogous (colors right next to each other on the wheel)
yanked this from recent dunmesh post; i kept most of my colors within the pink/red/orange range.
i wouldn't recommend doing everything in monochrome or analogous palettes though because it's sort of a guilty crutch of mine XD.
sometimes when im coloring ill change the layer mode of the sketch. color burn gets you either very very bright or very very deep colors depending on the color of the flats underneath. multiply and linear burn do the same thing but they're a lot tamer and generally always return darker colors. im sure there's some technical bits behind this though. ill either color my lineart afterward to compliment the color of the flats, leave it as is, or mess with layer modes if i feel like it. my favorite trick is color burn + linear burn + some combination of two lineart layers and just fiddling until i get a nice burn effect.
mithrun was done with crimson red on color burn.
coloring... like 999% of this is relative color which is like. kind of the idea that colors look different when placed next to each other. if you eyeball it a bit it's pretty noticeable.
what i used to do a bit ago was i would fill in the area i wanted to color with one big mask of color, make a new layer that has a clipping mask down to the flat layer of color, and then draw my actual flat colors. the color of the mask helped me pick my flat colors bc if I picked a color i think stood out too much next to the mask i could kind of just adjust it until it looked a little more cohesive.
old ish drawing next 2 a canon reference. i ignore local color a lot...mea culpa....but my overall color palette here was a light pink, so the shirt here is actually a desaturated pink? or violet i believe. if you shift sort of that purple color far enough into the gray area of your color wheel it can take on a blueish or even greenish hue. it being next to a lot of warm pinks/fuschias helps.
a neat thing that kind of helps is that if you desaturate or saturate certain colors they can kind of take on a certain hue? not sure if this makes sense. sort of how orange here turns tealish blue the grayer it gets. so if im drawing something that's predominantly orange and i have a blue color i can just take an orange color and desaturate it until i get a color that sort of looks like blue. and that way it kind of looks more harmonious? at least to me XD
shading. i don't apply serious lighting to a lot of my drawings, but a helpful bit is that the shadows tend to be the opposite of whatever color the lighting is? i try to think first about the "mood" or the main color i want to go for in the drawing and then i pick a shadow color opposite of that. so for here, i wanted the lighting to be a coolish magenta so the shadows r lime green. if there's anything off i fiddle around until i get something i like. the shadows on the skin here were too green initially so i shifted them a little more orange.
there's a "band" of color going on between the transition of the shadows to the light. generally this could be for a lot of reasons and i tend to use it differently (core shadow? overexposure? etc etc). but this is a color post so ill try not to go too off track.
but generally digital doesn't "mix" colors the same way traditional colors do if you use RGB (cmyk is a bit better with this but is kind of a pain to get used to), so to make blending a little less muddy, i sometimes add an intermediate color to smooth things out a little. for example, mixing digitally blue n yellow tends to get you gray, but generally, blue + yellow makes green, so if im making a blue->yellow transition ill slap some green color in the middle so it flows a little better.
I do a lot more cel shading nowadays. if you've been on here for a while earlier this year i have another style of coloring but it's not really accurate to how shadows really work so i wouldn't recommend looking at it. it's mostly to add zest and texture to the underlying flat colors.
coloring your lineart does a TON to helping your colors look vibrant, though its like the garnish on a dish to me (same with shadows). i think it's good to try and play with your flat colors and try to make sure those look in order first before adding flourishes. usually ill leave it a dark, saturated color that again matches my overall palette but sometimes i go in and color them by alpha locking my lineart layer and picking a color that matches the flat colors underneath? not sure how to explain it properly.
i used a darkish purple for shuro's ponytail to match the dull red of the flat colors (more relative color! trying to simulate a black/brown while keeping the pink palette there) but a lighter crimson for laios's blond. the light was this super intense like blush pink so i thought it might be cool to add this neon salmon red in the areas of that light to really give off that vibe of a very bright intense rim light.
sometimes you could also tweak with gradient maps or color balance, which adjusts hue based on how light or dark a color is. these r fun to mess with as a final touch but i need to watch using them because they can become crutches real fast XD but those are also just tools to help you. in the end just developing a good sense of how color works and how you want to use it is the best place to start.
LONGASS ramble but yeah. tldr just kind of train ur eye for color and look at what you like best. which is unhelpful and a little sucky but it really is just observation and practice and maybe some personal zest.
happy drawing!