I GUESS.

now I only post tutorials, aestethic and such. soz.

[drawingden]

Colour Painting Tips by slawekfedorczuk

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[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[turtle-brownie]

I love the way you render! 😭💕 How do you pick your colors?

I remember like, years ago watching this video by Keinan Lafferty (I think) on youtube, and used the 'banana method' or whatever he called it in that, which is essentially making a curved 'banana' shape on your colour picker

essentially, the idea is, using your base colour (or, mid tone), you progressively shift the colour lighter and more de-saturated for your lighter tones, and inversely shift progressively darker and more de-saturated from your mid-tone for your shadows.

You can see in my colour-picked example here that it is not a perfect semi-circle, but it was generally the basis for how I'd pick colours, and then would tweak them from there.

How I'd tweak the colours usually is with the help of overlaying gradient maps. I'd also tweak colours in especially shadows, where I'd intentionally use a slightly lighter grey for the illusion of 'cooler' tones in shadows, and darker more saturated tones along the edges where the shadow meets the light.

I've more recently started trying out using triadic colour schemes, where I pretty much jump to the opposite side of the colour wheel for my shadows and light.

This image on twitter sort of sparked my inspiration to experiment more with that (image is linked to the original post) but I am still trying to get the hang of it still 🥲

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[anachrosims]

just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:

[anachrosims]

and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)

[periodinteriors]

On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Embrace the decorative arts, folks!

[blumenundpoesie]

Head empty, just sunlight pouring through stained glass windows

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Please be mindful that i didn't draw any chainmail underneath, first bc im lazy, but every armor from XV century had some : over the gambeson, under the plate, fully or on located areas. They also used pants gambesons.

Also this is just one example, XVth had so much armor variations for any of the parts above

Here're some references i like to use :

-> The Evolution of Knightly Armour

-> Age of Craft

-> ArmaFora catalogue

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[philoponella]

@demonladytakkuri

[demonladytakkuri]

Excellent. Now you may accurately choose Nice Clothes for your bois in this RP.

[artist-refs]

The link takes you to a 404 page, but it can all still be found by clicking on the “catalogue” link (or just click here:  [link] )

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[softestaura]

Photographed by Polly Brown for Cero Magazine

[thecollectibles]

Monument valley & cores by qing ying

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Ominous Sites by Qing Ying

[bugmeyer]

Grave of Hope - Painting Process

www.angelarium.net

[miyuliart]

Some suits studies from patreon (without notes)

[adjpngs]

(1) paper png, (2) scrap with paper clip, (3) vintage memo notepad, (4) open journal, (5) stack of papers, (6) torn cardboard, (7) cardboard piece, (8) notebook page, (9) grid notebook paper

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[nocturnal-stims]

Flexible feather armor

🪽 Miscreations_us on IG