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(Poem) Thinking of Mothers

i saw this art by @sartieparty a second ago and it lowkey inspired me to write a poem rq. as a professional mother haver (i have three and all are married to men so tragically its not bc of a queer situation) i am extremely easy to get with mothers that are distant, have changed, or even mothers that tried their best and it wasn't ever going to be enough (sideways glance at toriel)

A mother is complicated She can have one, do perfectly. They squabble but always love each other and make up They are so close they could have been friends if it weren't for the fact that they are mother and daughter.

She could worry, but rest a bit knowing her daughter is safe her daughter is a good person and loves her Maybe there is another and she knows now how to help her better She will do good this time, too

But maybe something fast approaches Unavoidable. Unpredictable. Unstoppable. She loses that first beautiful life and every day that passes is a day her daughter will not have She tries to anticipate something unable to be anticipated Freezes in time and blows harsh gales through the house Performs that perfect easy joy through her bleeding heart and ragged mind

Sometimes a mother is not a mother Maybe from the beginning she is only herself Something in her, or the world She gives birth but will never be a mother The baby squalls sickly in the crib

The child runs across the street towards another and the mother does not turn to look

Sometimes a mother comes too late when that child has long since been abandoned For all her love and care, there is hardly a child left Sometimes she comes just in time But there is a barrier of glass between that child and the world

They are different from all others and under the weight of that knowledge is where they grow Compared to them, a sibling is no different from a stranger And it aches and wounds them forever in their chest No matter how good and caring a mother She will never understand. So the child drifts on a lonely raft, surrounded by family that are miles away

Sometimes a mother is nothing at all A dream formed by a lonely mind of the first kind embrace a daughter has ever seen

also yes i almost got hit by a car as a kid LOL that wasn't just there bc of the dess got hit by a car theory i heard about. if anything seems off or misaligned with lore thats bc i only ever played the first chapter bc i have been BUSY with college :sweats: so i have only learned anything through mentions online

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trying to figure out how to draw this guy cause im obsessed with him

also i keep forgetting i can post art on my blog bc i forget i have it

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A little fun thing i had stuck in my head while my drawing pen was lost

reference from @adorkastock

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As promised, it’s finally here! Thank you to all of my patrons for not only the support that made this possible, but for giving me the confidence to work on a big project like this.

Rather than providing any drawing instruction, what this writeup aims to do is help you learn to unpack the decisions being made in a given composition, and articulate what elements in a piece are responsible for its impact. Being able to isolate these qualities in your own art and art that inspires you opens up avenues for improvement regardless of medium, style, or technical skill. This is the first of hopefully many PWYW art ‘tutorials’ from me. 

I hope you all enjoy! 

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Too many artists are held back by outdated and bad color theory rules, or even rules that are fine but have built in limitations that you should know and I want to set everyone free.

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Tertiary Red and Secondary Blue could be in your color theory understanding and make paint mixing way easier but they played you

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Also hot takes:

Learning color theory through oil painting is more difficult than learning it through gouache & watercolor, primarily because it takes way more time to find mass tone and mix everything and also it's much less obvious to easily and quickly discern if a paint pigment is highly staining or transparent.

Oil painters like to seem like they have the richest and most storied traditions in color theory to past down but also inevitably they are the most likely to retain an extremely limited chroma palette based on classical palettes for the sake of classicism and not always make that fact very apparent to a beginner aside from saying it's an "old masters palette" watercolor/gouache painters are bad at using paints that are not light-fast and clinging to them despite having better alternatives, but generally still understand chroma gamuts and pigment importance better or at least talk about them more.

When you're mixing paints, the earth colors (browns) don't need to handled and thought of as brown. Ask yourself if the brown is yellow, orange, red, or leaning towards a black (which would be treated as a violet or blue, depending on whether black is warmer or cooler).

Yes there are cool reds and warm blues

Any reference color wheel that places red on the very top hurts my feelings, stop doing this just because you learned "roygbiv". Yellow is at the top and the Indigo-Blue range is on the bottom because this also means the color with the lightest possible value is opposite the color with the darkest possible value, so you have the colors arranged with a value scale from top to bottom BUILT IN.

this is related to why ivory black is actually very dark blue.

[brehaaorgana]

@rizahawkeyesmuscles

This makes me think makeup artists have good color theory, having to understand undertones of skin, warm v neutral v cool toned red lipstick....

Yes!!! I mean first of all, makeup artists are artists.

and they are ALSO ultimately just blending pigments to produce certain colors and effects, so yeah professionally do study the basics of color theory and then necessarily have to adapt it to their medium. And they tend to generally add like, what you talked about with recognizing cool/warm/olive/neutral undertones and such as a big consideration to their canvas.

And that IS why people will say "this is a cooler red lipstick" (although even cooler than that would be magenta or fuschia!).

I think the only thing I've noticed wrt to honestly mostly beauty influencers and not actual professional MUAs is that too many people buy an eyeshadow palette of cool tones in the palette and then put it on and complain it pulls "too warm for their cool skin." And it "isn't actually a true cool tone palette."

I just want to grab all these people by the face and say:

"Shhhhhh. Color temperature is relative. Although you have cool skin undertones, you ALSO have blood under your skin which will inherently make your base skin-canvas slightly warm no matter your foundation shade. So when you put any kind of pigment that isn't fully opaque onto your skin, the transparency WILL be warmed by your skin because you're alive and have blood still. The eyeshadow palette IS a cool palette. You're just not a vampire, which is why that cool taupe shade suddenly looks different from the mass tone in the palette."

These influencers would understand this better if they did some watercolor painting on pre-tintedpaper and then compared it to painting on pure white.

But a MUA probably already figured this out yeah.

[brehaaorgana]

In case anyone is curious here are my top color recommendations

Handprint.com is hands down the most comprehensive scientific explanation of how different color wheels or palette choices work. It's big and dense and exceptionally thorough. I skim frequently and find myself always learning more. https://handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html everything is done using watercolors as a reference point but a LOT of this translates to other mediums. For the record his CIECAM color wheel is what I consider to be the best (not 3 dimensional) color wheel for artists. Period.

He uses pigment numbers for some of the most common watercolors rather than specific paint brands or color names to place the pigments. It's also a case study in why yellow being at the top is the best because it also means you have a value scale from top to bottom (since black paints are just dark violets or blues, ultimately.)

When you look at this, you can start realizing more and more why the earth colors can be used as if they were like, straight red, or yellow, or orange. Like if you wanted to make a limited palette, you could use "burnt sienna" as your dark yellow (which will make the whole palette lean orange!) Or it could be your orange or you could use burnt sienna as your red. (Look at gamut masking links below)

Seriously it's good to try and swatch your medium (even really quickly!) Within a CIECAM Artist's color wheel. Below are two of my attempts:

From loose memory and then mapping pigments roughly.

He also discusses the difference between visual complements and mixing complements!

Anyways absolutely try to read bits and pieces. The whole site is amazing. Handprint is amazing.

Also:

https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com and James Gurney's book: Color and Light: a guide for the realist painter. James Gurney is the dinotopia guy. That book is also amazing for painting fantasy with lots of fantastical examples. Here are two short videos on gamut mapping and gamut masking. Accompanying blog posts.

No surprises here! His book also charts pigments:

Actually these are my four favorite books hands down:

Color and Light: a Guide for the realist painter - James Gurney

Color for Painters: a guide to traditions & practice - Al Gury

The oil painters color handbook - Todd m casey

Artist's master series: Color & light - 3d total publishing. This one emphasizes digital!

The first two have been out for awhile now and you can more easily find them cheaper/used online than the latter two which are relatively newer and hefty hardbacks.

Also, from personal experience: al gury is a sweetheart angel who is a huge crazy cat man. I adore him, he's so kind and helpful. I think it's a little late to join the current session (although they did only start Jan 28, so you can always ask! Class videos are recorded), BUT he frequently offers a class on color that is fully online through PAFA continuing education, as well as other classes. I haven't taken it yet, but I HAVE taken other classes online with Al and he's really great.

Oh also online gamut masking tools:

In krita: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/gamut_masks.html

https://claudiamatosa.com/resources/gamut-masking simple tool

https://mypaintingclub.com/blog/post/39-The-Gamut-Mask-Tool another tool with more complexity

The tl;Dr of a gamut mask is to show you the full range of possible colors you can mix within a given palette (choices of colors/pigments).

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experimental woman

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whatever im gonna start posting my woman here

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drew him for the first time ever today

( I saw a cool oc for TV Dinner by @tsundere-sweeth3art and started reading it. the mention of a little tenna doodle moved me to release this beast from my mind)

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drew him for the first time ever today

( I saw a cool oc for TV Dinner by @tsundere-sweeth3art and started reading it. the mention of a little tenna doodle moved me to release this beast from my mind)

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watch yo jet - Submitted by: fastman27

#E2EBF4 #B0C8FF #8791ED #7D5CDF #4C3C9D

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alsonheres my new header (alt with text under the cut)

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doodle of my cat looking at whatever

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Grim has THE MOST POLITE crossed legs

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and here's the other one. the angelic beam of light follows her

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sleepy dteam cuddles :3

[yunoftheclouds]

What’s with this sassy, lost child?

[tpwrtrmnky]

grass

[ID: Three-panel Pills That Make You Green comic with crudely drawn stick figures representing people.

Panel 1: Zoom in on orange stick figure's face. They are saying:

"Huh. I... don't feel bad right now."

Panel 2: Slight zoom out, showing that they are laying down.

"I haven't thought about spectral decompositions all day. Nobody's telling me I'll never be orange enough. This... is kind of nice?"

Panel 3: Zoom out further, revealing that the stick figure is laying in a grassy field drawn in a rough digital painting style, with mountains in the distance and a blue sky with sparse clouds.

"Maybe it's going to be okay actually."

End ID.]

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