season after season

she / 30s / art, comics, pathfinder, etc.

[belltether]

hello! i enjoy posting nonsense and drawing my pathfinder characters ✨belltether.bluesky.com ✨store | belltether.itch.io ✨commissions (closed) | belltether.carrd.co ✨ffxiv blog | cecilyreeve.tumblr.com

[devilrose]

Knights over the round table (the helmet stays on)

[eldritchwatcher]

An old knight

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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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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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Comic History: Color and Print

Learn how to simulate retro artwork in this three-part series dedicated to the history of printing methods and how to recreate them digitall

A Brief and Broad History of Post Golden Age-Pre-Digital Comic Book Coloring

If I told you to think of a Silver Age comic book, what image does your mind conjure? Chances are, you’re picturing a comic with bold lines…

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 RGB is a light spectrum color setting.

You can look up how to do this for whichever drawing program you use since it can change from program-to-program!

[belltether]

finch's custom apex item

[belltether]

okay sorry about that i forgot to post here for a long time. i would say it was because i was drawing pornography, but that's only been the last ~2 months, so i really have no excuse at all.

[belltether]

had the pleasure of playing a pathfinder (2e) oneshot for my birthday this year, and was given the absolute gift of playing a black-blade magus, my #1 most missed archetype from 1e. naturally, i had to go a bit crazy

[belltether]

commission for a friend of their wellspring mage; designed to be used as a game token

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our bard and champion (of groetus) decided to switch looks for a day

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commission for a friend, of his gnome investigator!

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various discord emotes i've made for various pathfinder games

curtain call - draki - problem-solving

curtain call - john - crit

curtain call - bailey - kiss

westcrown story - aldo - pasta

westcrown story - bina - princesslaugh

westcrown story - etienne - imok

westcrown story - kaz - learning

westcrown story - boss - noprob

westcrown story - the snake - trust me

[belltether]

various pathfinder doodles;

curtain call - john and his wife dancing before he left for osirion

curtain call - venice and his not-wife & son at the beach

age of ashes - maysaint eating falafel

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done earlier this year, a birthday gift for the GM of finch's game. the climactic battle at the top of Carrock's How, to retake Storasta

[belltether]

some recent commissions top: narlor.bluesky bottom: @shimigangot

[shahenor]

In this strange moment, she holds onto you and you pull her in closer… shielding her from what cannot be seen // you are not guided, not pulled, but held. The strings are keeping you all here and they are here; behind you, above you, touching you… they are everywhere.

[belltether]

THERE IS NO ESCAPE

[belltether]

updated finch references