Beyond the Pale

[beardedmrbean]

[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)

[anatoref]

Hands Row 1 & 2 Row 3 - 5 Row 6

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

bought a second hand kindle from the pawn shop and would love to get in touch with the previous owner to discuss their interests 👍

[vizuart]

Evgeny Sedukhin - “Symphony of the sixth blast furnace” (1979)

[disturbedlolita]

[lionfloss]

via takesunset

[vintagehomecollection]

In these fast-food times, when food preparation and mealtimes are all but bereft of sensual pleasure, there is great satisfaction to be had in growing fragrant herbs and fresh vegetables in attached greenhouses and on sunny windowsills, as well as outdoors.

The Naturally Elegant Home, 1992

[amicus-nocte]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

@xathira

[tristealven]

God said: 

                GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE  IF YOU ARE “GUILTY” OR NOT.

I said: 

           I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!

I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!… 

God was silent. 

                         Everything was SILENT. 

— Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

[guooey]

[amicus-nocte]

Happy birthday @xathira! Deadass this is two weeks late lmaoo

Go 👏 read 👏 Prince of the Unknown 👏

[amicus-nocte]

I remembered the password to my Tumblr account and now @xathira will never know peace

Read her POTU series on AO3! It’s really good! I drew this many moons ago, before I understood how Wirt’s Beastie antlers were supposed to look!

[aureliobooks]

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

killing god as the ultimate act of regicide 

[tanicus-caesareth]

it don’t have to be like that, though

[chromolume]

buses are so iconic they’re like “this little number tells you where I’m going hop on if you want idc” and everyone at the bus stop is like “wig”

[dogls]

were really running out of posts to make huh

[yesterdaysprint]

The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, April 12, 1904