A bunch of gnomes I was hired to design for a card game, currently crowdfunding.

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JBB: An Artblog!

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shark vs the universe
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we're not kids anymore.
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NASA
noise dept.
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cherry valley forever
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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#extradirty
Jules of Nature

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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A bunch of gnomes I was hired to design for a card game, currently crowdfunding.
Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate
Flexible feather armor
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@factual-fantasy
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.
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 💪
My good friends this is called using a
Gamut Mask
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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.
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
Playful mouse and a coffee cup
beautiful interaction i saw on the internet today
TF2 Teddy Roosebelt in real life!
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
this poll is made out of curiosity by me and my friends, we want to reach as many people as possible so please vote & reblog if you can:)
Do you know Asterix & Obelix?
Yes, i'm European
No, i'm European
Yes, i'm not European
No, i'm not European
did a chiropractor hurt you
I don't like they are regarded as legitimate medical professionals (including by insurance companies!!) when they do ghost bone magic massages. Just a thing I have about quackery
It's no longer being updated, but the dossier on What's The Harm dot net is a must-read: http://whatstheharm.net/chiropractic.html
An experiment in language change
Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
Farscape 3x21 - "Into The Lion's Den (Part 2): Wolf In Sheep's Clothing"
A scene bathed in golden light showing the East Indiaman ‘Hindustan’ and another vessel, at anchor off the coast of China. By Thomas Luny, c. 1793
I hate having aphantasia. It's total bullshit, give me access to the internal images so I can draw better.
#op this is great bc this is such a good representation of what its like#save#aphantasia#not losing this#this is what its like in my head all the time#i can barely draw i cant write or create#i just feel#and then i cant even describe what the vibes and what i feel#bc its too much#so i just kind of#learn to give up lol#i still try to draw but ive accepted im not a creator anymore#i hate having that hope and that drive and then not being able to do anything just stare with literally silence and emptiness in my head
Hi! I’m aphantasiac and I’m a writer. Detailed visual description is a bit of a weakness of mine (not because I’m bad at it, but because I just keep forgetting to do it), but I get along just fine. The OP here clearly has aphantasia, and is clearly excellent at drawing. I mean, look at that skill. The characters, the detail. The ability to visually depict aphantasia with perfect accuracy, which I’ve never seen anybody do ever. I’ve met many artists with aphantasia, visual artists and writers and musicians and actors, and it’s never been a problem -- most, like me, just assumed that this was how everyone’s brain worked and ‘visualising’ was a metaphor for like, remembering a thing exists.
Aphantasia won’t stop you from creating. I’ve never even noticed it being an impediment (beyond me sometimes forgetting to visually describe something I guess). There’s no reason to despair.
Milky Way Anatomy
If we could see our galaxy, the Milky Way, from the outside, it would look like an enormous, bedazzled pinwheel. Vast sprays of stars form spiral arms that curl outward from a bright center that bulges like the yolk in a fried egg. Dark, dusty tendrils darken some regions, while glowing pink gas clouds light up others.
We have a pretty good idea of the Milky Way’s overall structure, but since we’re nestled inside it, fine details are hard to see. Those clouds of gas and dust strewn throughout interstellar space block our view, especially of the far side of the galaxy. Astronomers have used observations from different telescopes to piece together our galaxy's anatomy. Let's scrub up and dive in!
OP: Look at the 'fire-butterfly' we managed to film. The picture really doesn't do its beauty justice. (cr 鸟王艾雅康,观鸟景jhin,生态摄影阿博特,毕强,Sjxxphotograph,Fische,鱼摆摆,Shanalotte,冰鹡鸰)
I love this Chinese guy who is so excited to show everyone this really cool bird. This is why the internet was created, so we could show strangers on the other side of the world cool things we know about. Xie xie <3333333
Musée de la civilisation, Québec, Canada
Have you been here?
I have been here
I have not been here
the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly
Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:
It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.
He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.
He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.
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