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SOFIA. 23. instagram: soffffilus

[oxidi]

Klaus Leidorf, Yellow Car, 2017

[zombilenium]

Forgotten Treehouse in Redmond, Washington,

Radek Kurzaj Photography

[possessedpasm]

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!

[possessedpasm]

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.

[thatsbelievable]

[h0llace]

wing motifs in promising young woman

[brookheimer]

shockingly good roman takes on reddit. like an oasis in a desert truly

[dracoj]

romey showing compassion to a person in emotional distress incident 1000 injured 34 dead

[quezify]

cut the head off

[puyogho]

remember when I told you I was sick and you didn’t believe me?

[magnusedom]

SUCCESSION (4.04) | HONEYMOON STATES

[estergen]

Birds when evolving in to a niche are like, evolves their beak in to some weird shape

[miss-wizard]

If a bird hung around my house long enough I am certain its beak would become an exact copy of my front door key

[fortooate]

i hate it when people are like omg no the naughty squirrel is getting into the bird feeder!

that is squirrel food as well also. you put it out into your backyard which is the squirrels houses as well. in what sense is that not food for the squirrel. cop mindset honestly i do not trust it

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[jorrmungandr]

[curlicuecal]

what if instead of having a fake name for internet personal-life purposes we could have a fake name for professional work-life purposes

[curlicuecal]

fantasy culture where you have a different name for every role in your life and a true name that is extremely secret

[curlicuecal]

you don't get to know all of me

it's tuesday you only get to know sara

[curlicuecal]

you understand me to my soul

[curlicuecal]

Honestly all the notes on this have been so good, here's a few of my favorites

[virgoboy]

that post thats like "you're not unlovable you've just been spending a lot of time alone in your room" is true for everyone but me. i'm unlovable i've just coincidentally been spending a lot of time alone in my room

[mumblesplash]

actually while i’m here: jonathan “gotta compromise the structural integrity of my skeleton before i jump into the Crush You To Death Dimension” sims is fucking COASTING on the quality of his voice. this man impulse-murdered a coffee table with an axe because he was pissed at the eldritch being imprisoned within it and was SURPRISED when destroying the horror prison released the horrors. by season 2 he is accusing his coworkers of murder for being nice to him and is literally on a first name basis with the autonomous physical manifestation of losing your mind. he makes the most absurd possible choice at every turn and somehow STILL manages to come across as straitlaced and reasonable because he talks like if a bbc documentary voiceover was disappointed in you personally