First We Feel, Then We Fall

any pronouns // queer

[gayvampyr]

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

[gayvampyr]

“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

[gayvampyr]

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

[moreclaypigeons]

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 :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[infernaldaydreams]

In War, Victory

HAPPY DRAGON AGE DAY!

Davrin was a huge stand out for me this game and I knew I had to make a piece for him today <3

(spoilerish version under the cut)

In Death, Sacrifice

I cried a lot my first run. Like, a lot a lot.

[nataliedecorsair]

Dude… give me the bottle (or when you lost a rhyming contest against the supernatural skeletal horse)

The second art is new and is featuring Mari on her day off — There are more doodles and sketches in my reblogs — I found out about Mari Lwyd several years ago - and I fell in love with the concept. Here are some of my Lwyd arts I drew during all this time My most popular art with her is here

P.S. - don’t forget about the frogs

[starpeace]

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

[starpeace]

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

[elidyce]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[superjustaguyblog]

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

[anachronistic-cat]

Tags via @mia7437

[sudokucats]

@real-british-empire

[real-british-empire]

I can vouch that this is how coding works.

[mun-urufu]

Definetly how coding works

[kolutshanpress]

Ever Rise by @loquaciousquark

Vampire AU. In 1902 London, Fenris's flight from his former master leads him straight to the city streets—and the night's creatures who walk them. After a chance meeting with one who calls herself Hawke, Fenris's escape is curtailed as he finds his fortunes entangled with her own, forcing them both to face old fears and old scars as he attempts to win his freedom at last—with or without Hawke's help. For the 2012 Dragon Age Big Bang.

Happy Fan Fic Writer's Appreciation Day, one and all! This is the second of my two concurrent binding projects: a decadently gothic bind for a deliciously gothic vampire AU. As soon as I finished reading Ever Rise, I knew that I wanted to bind it. It's such a fun and inventive AU with great worldbuilding and really on point characterization, and the Renegade Bindery's FFWAD celebration provided the perfect opportunity for me to do so.

About The Bind

As always, this was typeset in Affinity and printed on cream 20/50lb short grain paper. Just about everything is set in Crimson Text with the exception of the titles, which are set in Lordish. (Important lesson learned during this project: sometimes less is more.)

This is a rounded hardcover with a full bookcloth case covered in a bookcloth that for some reason attracts lint like nobody's business. The cover was designed in Affinity Designer and applied via custom vinyl stencils and metallic acrylic paint.

I'm really very proud of this book. I spent a lot of time looking at books published in the early 1900s so that I could create a design that felt somewhat contemporary to the setting of the fic. It's also my cleanest and best designed typeset to date. It just... flows.

And then, of course, there are the illustrations. In addition to the four Big Bang illustrations that were originally published alongside this fic, I carefully selected an additional 13 pieces of art from the public domain. This was the first time I've tried doing anything particularly image heavy in a bind, and I'm very happy with the result.

In conclusion: go read this extremely good fic that inspired me to spend probably 6 to 8 hours trawling various museums for public domain art.

Excerpts from the typeset (including illustrations!) below the cut.

[loquaciousquark]

@kolutshanpress approached me about binding this fic several months ago, which was cool enough, but when she offered to send me a second copy of my own I just about fell off the chair. Right now, actually having a copy of this text in my actual hand, seeing things I wrote in actual printed word, has made this one of the coolest, most thoughtful, most incredible gifts I've ever received. The illustrations are incredible and so apropos to their scenes, including the Big Bang art pieces from @frikadeller; the epigraphs are set beautifully enough to twinge my wee Sayers-loving heart; and even seeing my dedication to @jadesabre301 in printed text honestly made me tear up. I wish I could take pictures of every part of this that touched me, but then it would just be the entire book page by page.

I really cannot get over how professionally and how beautifully this has been bound. There are even multiple places where gorgeous QR codes link back to my AO3 and the fic itself, as well as to supplementary illustrations. It's just the most professional, high quality, empirically most awesome thing that's ever happened to anything I've written, and I wish I could find the words to express my gratitude at your generosity and kindness in letting me have a second copy of my very own. This is honestly a treasure and I will protect it forever. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[covertleathers]

Replaying Inner Demons and realizing something:

"He always listens to you."

Then, the final romance scene:

"Your voice is a comfort to me."

Spite is basically telling Rook that Lucanis just like...listens to Rook. Meaning he isnt just obeying or taking orders from them. He's relishing the sound of them speaking. When they are sitting eating dinner together, Lucanis is quietly just, taking in Rook's voice. In the pantry listening to Rook speak with someone else through the wall. Canonical Yapper Rook stealing minds and hearts over here.

[monstress-crochet]

With the final week of this year wrapping up, I finally pushed myself into updating Marishana’s bracer to match the lovely interpretation drawn by @aelwen-art (thank you some much again!)

It came out great! And the fact that I tied it to her upside down the first time just meant I had twice the fun hahaha

And while I was at it I also gave her some battle scars. She’s sort of functions as an off tank in our current campaign and has just been taking hit after hit after hit. She’s been stabbed, stomped, swallowed, scratch, anything you can imagine. She’s been through the wringer but so far she’s been holding her own. I can’t wait till our next session :)

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! I’ll see you all in the next year

[horse-breed-a-day]

Hi!! I really like your blog!!

Say, im an artist and i would like to draw a horse that looks like an Absolute Unit(tm). Like, i wanna look at them and go, yeah, that could flatten a knight in full plate armor. Just an absolute chunk of good boy

Got any recs?😁

hello and thanks for the ask!! thats so exciting! ive been drawing horses since i could properly hold up a pencil so i think i can help but even then im no pro!

dont be afraid to show mass these horses are huge! i think ur best friend is going to be wrinkles, give them wrinkles to showcase their muscle density in different areas like around the jaw, elbow, hip etc (not too much tho! too much of anything might make it look odd)

something about else that may help depict density is shadows, add shading to emphasize muscular areas that dont necessarily need linework

as for references here r some good photos i found that showcase their size and mass

[scalycat]

We should have had a teary hug with our love interest after being pulled out of the fade prison

[boredth]

This happened in Mikoshi btw

[sticksandsharks]

I take the animal and I make it shapes

[lyadrielle]

When you're running a military exercise, but gremlins keep swiping the army tokens!

[snarkspawn]

a couple of rookanis WIPs

[amateur]

[finntheehumaneater-deactivated2]

imagine you’re a guard for your castle, and you see this lady calling for help and saying she’s the queen, so you bring her in and everyone watches as she fucking eats the babies in there and just goes, “yep. Sure. New queen.” Because she got them, along with you, all high on psychedelics. And then she transforms into a giant fucking blue creature and crawls away, never to be seen again.

[godisafujoshi]

God forbid women do anything

[spiny-ant]

There are multitudes of species whose survival is dependent on putting an ant colony through a psychological horror scenario

[antivancorvo]

For the Palette Challenge, Davrin and Regret?

gotchuuu <3 thank you for the ask!!

send me a DA character and a palette!

[menstits]

We need more images like these i think

[auroradiation]