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Harley | 22 | icon by @derekgoestotacobell |

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i'm gonna be deleting all my blogs and starting completely fresh- DM me if you want a link to my new blog because in the following week my personal AND art blog will be deleted.

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Been a long ass time since I’ve drawn vinny

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Dylan spreading eagle. Gonna draw him jacking off next. Stay tuned for a Bluesky link.

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Sneak peak bc I have no idea when I’m gonna finish it

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Dylan spreading eagle. Gonna draw him jacking off next. Stay tuned for a Bluesky link.

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Another wip of Dylan that will be left to rot in the pile of other never to be finished sketches of Dylan

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Actually you can have this one too bc I don’t think I’m gonna finish it- I kinda started to dislike it but I can’t tell you what exactly is wrong with it

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Another wip of Dylan that will be left to rot in the pile of other never to be finished sketches of Dylan

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"IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN!!!"

anywayz

I finally got off my ass and bought ykmet, and I'm enjoying it so far. Expect fanart if I have enough time in between work 1 (florist) and job 2 (drawing fetish art for furries)

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Work doodles.

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she kinda looks and acts like i did when i was 13

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Re-reading homestuck after not touching it since 2015. Had to make me and my friends.

I did myself a botched head shave, and I had no idea how to translate it gracefully into this style.

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forgot to post my artfart card

go attack the raccoon with the red dye job- he belongs to my 11 year old brother

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i love her

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

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YES! YES!! THANK YOU FOR THE SCIENCE!

A lot of knowing your traditional materials goes into making digital art, too!

It's also great to learn the methods, shortcuts, workaround, and materials used all those years ago to familiarize yourself with them and also... it's pretty freakin' neat-o

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ngl this looks like hot ass but i cant sleep

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i see people do this shit hyper detailed. are we not supposed to do this in 5 minutes???

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my boyson

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kiran but if i made him in 2014