bulletproof loneliness

spence ☆ 26 ☆ he/him ☆ icon by @artdunk ☆ ☆ sometimes i post my writing or art ☆ always obsessed with something silly

[maidmarians]

Animated Heroines Appreciation Week: Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis - 2007)

Shut up, you bitches! YES, I’M IRANIAN AND I’M PROUD OF IT!

[buttpoems]

embarrassing myself

[gregor-the-man-man]

They call me Despair the Killer of Hope

Despair the Blue

Despair The Zero

[unfamiliarsculptures]

A fancy little cat sculpture for my next shop update! It’ll be available Friday, May 22nd.

[mgsr]

cats will be like please i need you to watch me wiggle around on this carpet please hey look look please look at me i’m wiggling

[glasssoda]

ok mattjay yaoi

[moonrot-edits]

happy birthday to my favorite bird! 🎂🐦

paramore - hard times

[matthewjohnsons]

happy april 20th jay!!

[nilovalentine]

no! healthy relationship will kill the character! he needs an unhealthy codependent romance with a side of power imbalance to live

[bipjaymccarrol]

oh yes and this Classic

[sleepimali]

Riverside~ 🐇🌿

[calamariikid]

was bugging out so bad this morning about ghosts of the past but i touched some grass and walked under a waterfall and ate some cake and spent time with some lovely people and now i'm fine!

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[labrador-entity]

My good friends this is called using a

Gamut Mask

(image via )

James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!

I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.

[technecat-scratchings]

Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.

While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.

An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!

Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl

[txtoffcial]

[anxietyproblem]

[kingofdoma]

[calamariikid]

it could be the fact that it's almost Halloween talking, but i kinda feel like bringing back my mad scientist sona

[lizzybizzyart]

misery loves me