Kairoscuro

[rauko]

M.C. Escher | METAMORPHOSIS II (1940)

woodcut in red and black, 19.2cm x 400cm

[xaoca]

lol took me awhile to find this gif again… Escher is GOAT!

[dogray]

northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

[inthefallofasparrow]

southern hemisphere babes, they're stealing our fucking daylight!

[requinoesis]

Merry Christmas to all of you, wherever you are, your support this year has been my greatest gift! 🎁✨

I hope you all can be there for those who bring you comfort and security with lots of food! 🎄✨

[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

[goqmir]

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

[dialupmodern]

it feels so good loading the gun when you're Chekhov

[jam-etc]

…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

[sleepnoises]

sentence I just read on reddit ran "there was a snafu with the ganache" and i think these are some of the best syllables out there. there was a gnafu with the snanache. there was a snache with the ganafu. etc.

[whumpster-fire]

Missing the opportunity to say "There's been a ganachetrophe"

[holyunholy]

the human brain literally needs the color green (grass, leafs) to like self-calibrate and not go insane i sincerely believe this

[magnetic-deflection]

scurvy is caused by too much of blue

[live-from-new-york-its]

will be thinking of this for 100 years

[s0ftpillow]

Aliens abducting a Paleolithic horse 🐴✨🛸

[homunculus-argument]

The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."

[luchsyy]

small riso postcard design for one of my classes!!

[shyguygubbs]

started playing new fantasy life very fun very excited very hype i have been waiting for this for years but so far one of the funniest bits is that the king of the past can smell that you’re unemployed and makes you get a job before he helps you, but you do have a job you’re an archaeologist assistant you are presently doing your job by talking to this king of the past but no it’s not one of the 12 jobs bestowed by the guild office so you have to forsake your thirst for knowledge and adventure and go pick up a fishing rod.

[evilwizard]

the market is pretty tumultuous right now, but not to worry! i have some Wizard Investment tips for you. for instance—if you’ve got the funds for it, real estate is almost always a safe bet. personally i bought a timeshare in Atlantis some 7,000 years ago, and i can’t wait to see what kind of dividends it’s paid off!

[evilwizard]

you’re kidding me. right down into the water? right down into the water. fuck me

[evilwizard]

well, at least there’s always Pompeii

[evilwizard]

no. the volcano?

[moggiepillar]

i can no longer take any description of a male protagonist seriously if the writer describes him as ‘brooding’

because i used to think ‘oh, that’s sexy and mysterious, etc’

and now i think of this

once you’ve been loudly cussed out by 2.5 lbs of feathers, that word only ever means one thing

[shrikestrike]

This is the kinda brooding i WANNA see

[consolecadet]

#so this behavior basically translates to nonstop cuddling of offspring and vocal aggression towards anything that tries to prevent that #tbh i would be delighted to see male protagonists do just this sort of thing (via starfoozle)

[perspicaciousembroiderist]

I just had to explain what I was cackling at to my roommate. It automatically passes the Laugh Rule.

[roachpatrol]

She found her reluctant fiance, Erstad, brooding out on the rainy moors. 

“Is that a baby rabbit?” she asked, observing his huddled form. 

“IT’S SIX BABY RABBITS AND YOU CAN’T TOUCH THEM,” replied Ernstad, contriving to look twice his usual size and at least three times his usual fierceness. 

“Whoah okay damn,” she said, and backed away. 

[jasmiinitee-deactivated20210610]

i’d read the gothic romance novel of ernstad and his baby rabbits like right now

[jackironsides]

This means that Batman, obsessive hoarder of orphans, is the only dark mysterious character that can be accurately described as “brooding”.

[fantasticwhovian]

@thebibliosphere

[status-quo-hater]

Dehumanizing bigots is bad, not because I want to be nice to them, but because they are human beings and they serve as a reminder that anyone is capable of evil ideation and action. Violent bigots are not fundamentally different beings from you. They are human beings, who have developed a reactionary and destructive belief system due to their circumstances combined with their biases. In a different timeline, that could've been you. Anyone can be radicalized. Nobody is immune to propaganda, not even the person reading this.

[theyshutmedownagain]

[teaboot]

Jesus christ I love humanity