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Heya, so I'm opening comms again for a bit because Im preparing to move out of the country and have been really tight on cash lately. Have 3 slots open at the moment, and will probably open up more again once I'm done with my first batch. If anyone is interested you can contact me via discord or email, I will also open my DMs for a lil while just to accept comms :]

#commission info #commissions open #my art #fanart #digital art #commission #art commissions #artist on kofi #ko fi support #buy me a kofi

icantspellthings

Whenever people ask me "why don't you know xyz, it's so popular" well see it's because

invinciblerodent

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

askrobouteguilliman40k

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

haisfin

someone hit me with th end of a steel pan -anyways have some chess shit

#friend art #Look at them cool OCs teehee

retquits

so don't get too comfortable.

high resolution free to download [ here ]

bigskycastle

painted my cat in law

#cats :]#also cool art style #nice colors :]

keenwatcherwhisper

I am Palestinian. I am not a terrorist.

I am a human being who loves life and seeks safety for my children and my homeland. I want to live in peace, nothing more.

If u believe me, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot .

Link 👇

My name is Mustafa. I am a human being who has lost everything a… mustafa Abu hamam needs your support for DONATE, HELP MUSTAFA & MUHANNAD F

only-cat-memes

#man i love cats 🥰#cats :]

Have this Siffrin I drew for a comm, I'm really happy with how it turned out :]

#in stars and time #in stars and time siffrin #isat siffrin #isat #my art #been a hot min n since I posted art here ay?

punchdrunkdolly

i exist and i love you

wackom

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

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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.

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

#art tutorial #color inspo #nice colors :]

orangeblossombitch

Autumn brings along olive harvest and secret notes from someone you haven't seen in years....

Salamat from Nablus!

hilarioushumorfromouterspace

cfluffiness

Someone in facebook also posted this too

xmagnet-o

Omg

halcyonjester

Mediglyphics

klubbhead

This shit’s infuriating

pseudonymsobriquet

Oh, this is a type of shorthand!

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Isn’t language amazing~?

#oc ref #language