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please read my FAQ before asking a question, thank you! hi i'm bri (she/her) and i make art! i'm a background painter, illustrator, art director, and visual development artist. i've done work for disney tv, nintendo, dropout, dreamworks tv, harpercollins, and more. [email protected] instagram about faq art tag art help tag ♡

[ghostbri]

YA GIRL WILL BE EXHIBITING AT LIGHTBOX EXPO THIS YEAR!! i'll have some new prints, some old prints, and lots of goodies so come say hi!! it's my first artist alley experience ❤️‍🔥

here is my exhibitor information! be sure to check out all of the incredible artists attending this year.

october 23 - 25 in pasadena, CA. hope to see you there!

[desdemonia]

breaking the seal with some Toxic Throuple Situationship

The Lost Boys musical decided to eat my brain and now it's everyone around me's problem!!

[ghostbri]

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[ghostbri]

some bgs for The Burbank Beetleboy, which is streaming on Dropout! (go check it and the rest of the incredible Toonout shorts out!)

yet again i am honored to be able to art direct another short for another one of my besties, Jon Wallach ❤️ jon is the sweetest, funniest guy ever and he adores bugs and i hate them so i think we make a good team.

my #1 goal for this short was to be able to capture the magic of burbank, which has a weird and unique energy if youve ever been here. me and jon spent an entire sunday bopping around the city taking photos and picking out iconic locations. my main inspo for the style was the art direction for Ping Pong (2014) by my god: aymeric kevin. that anime captures a specific sense of place like nothing else i've ever seen before, and i tried to imbue a mere fraction of it into my work.

cryptid character layout (bigfoot and chupacabra) by jon, bg paint and design by me! and huge shoutout to my fellow bg artist, joe buenning, who did a large majority of the bgs not shown here and i wouldn't have gotten this done without him!

[ghostbri]

today i found out i've been spam filtered on this site for 5 years because tumblr just reinstated my ability to send and receive messages, which i didnt know i was missing 💀 so if you sent me a message in 2021 and i didn't reply IM SORRY!!!

[ghostbri]

hold on i've been getting way more notes/engagement than usual the past 24 hours and had no idea why and it's literally because i'm no longer banished to the fucking shadow realm 😭😭😭 guys for the past 5 years i thought i was just flopping hard. the sun has cast itself upon my soul again

[ghostbri]

today i found out i've been spam filtered on this site for 5 years because tumblr just reinstated my ability to send and receive messages, which i didnt know i was missing 💀 so if you sent me a message in 2021 and i didn't reply IM SORRY!!!

[ghostbri]

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BEETLEBOY ON THE STREETS OF BURBANK? 🫵

the second Toonout short i art directed and painted on has dropped! The Burbank Beetleboy by my incomparable, unbelievably talented buddy Jon Wallach ❤️

i will be posting some more art in a few days but for now GO CHECK IT OUT ON DROPOUT.TV!

[ghostbri]

thank god the vampire polycule musical is good

[ghostbri]

some art direction and bg paint for LEGEND OF LEGENDARIUS, which is streaming on Dropout now!

i'm so happy that raj brought me on board to help with his wonderful short for Toonout (jk i begged to do color on it). we both love 80's dark fantasy and we did a lot of research together to get the feel right while also bringing plenty of our own sensibilities into it.

boards and character designs by raj, bg layout/paint and color script by me. we collaborated on color styling, raj did a majority of the local color and i did the tints and lighting treatments :}

[toonoutanimation]

🚨 The series premiere of Toonout is OUT NOW!

Featuring a new animated short by Raj Brueggemann in "The Legend of Legendarius" 🗡️ Follow the adventure of the brave warrior Legendarius as he tries find a way back to his son Junior.

And featuring voice actors Raj Brueggemann, Ross Bryant, and Katie Marovitch!

➡️ Go to Dropout.tv to watch the series premiere of Toonout now

The Legend of Legendarius - Season 1 - Dropout

Legendarius tries to find a way back to his son Junior after meeting an untimely end.

[ghostbri]

WE ARE LIVE!!!!!

[ghostbri]

somehow i just keep finding you contributing to all my favorite media and it’s a very lovely surprise every time

this is so sweet 🥺💗 thank you so much!

[redstonedust]

pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.

[bincliff]

hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!

so, ways to get around this:

turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us

don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace

a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)

instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian

including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too

including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue

for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend

when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!

if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache

some online resources and museum collections:

fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples

the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates

costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)

v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece

lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces

nypl digital collection for photographs

national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art

national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific

stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource

wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain

auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!

anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)

[haemey]

Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.

[toonoutanimation]

🚨 A new wave of animation is coming to Dropout!

Get ready for Toonout Shorts—original animated shorts made by indie artists.

Tune in starting March 24th, only on Dropout.

➡️ Go to Dropout.tv to watch previously released animated shorts now!

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[ghostbri]

[ghostbri]

hello! your art is so beautiful + your textures are so good :]!!!!! would you be willing to share any brush recommendations?

hello and thank you! i have brush info in my faq ❤️🌹

[ghostbri]

my good friend T.W. Burgess (writer of the new André Øvredal film, Passenger!) and i talked about my favorite early horror games on his podcast! it was my first podcast appearance EVER and i was super nervous so if you like horror and/or games, i'd be honored if you gave it a listen below :}

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