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Really good looking broken laptop screen I saw at the store

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Some more because I really liked it

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this is really one of the best images ever

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that-house

death to the surveillance state

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Power rangers villains designs go SO hard i almost want to get into power rangers

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Poster Design

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Xin Zhilei | © Nick Yang V Mag China (November 2025)

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Akai Clarity M5 // Hifi Audio Set (Japan, 1986)

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Mermaid and Sphinx Statues

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Shivering Isles DLC

Art by Adam Adamowicz

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2004 mcr flyers from theydrewblood.blogspot.com

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@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

trismeowgistus

blending modes are great and super helpful but I'm going to push back slightly on closing a post about wanting to learn with a discussion on them. I'm a very firm believer that digital painters (and I say this as someone who mainly paints digitally these days) should learn things the "hard" traditional way, not because it builds character or any bullshit like that but because it gives you a much better grasp of what's happening. Blending modes are great for streamlining your workflow when you already know what you're doing, but if you're taught to rely on them without knowledge of the underlying principles at play, you're going to run into trouble in cases where you receive a result you weren't expecting and you're going to find it difficult to manually adjust the result.

Also, if and when you feel a desire to branch out into different mediums, you're going to have a much easier time of it if your understanding of color theory doesn't begin and end with blending modes.

existentiallemons

Kelly Osbourne's 2000s Fashion>>>>

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70′s & 80′s Local Television “Technical Difficulties” Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WPTF-TV, Durham/Raleigh/Fayetteville, North Carolina, 80′s 2. WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 3. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986 4. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 70′s 5. WZTV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1977 6. WXNE-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986 7. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977 8. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1983 9. WNEV-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984 10. KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, 1981

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I want to try so many little hobbies. Candle making, soap making, basket weaving, wood carving, book binding, baking, weaving, I want to try them all.

thatscavlife

I almost made a post about this the other day (unless i actually did and totally forgot) but there’s so many

I was going to make a list, but then i realized this is a good time to share this book

Making Stuff and Doing things is a whole collection of old punk DIY zines about making and doing just about anything, even things you probably never knew you wanted to do.

Book binding? In there.

Making bowls from old vinyl records? I made a whole ton for my brother’s grad party last year.

Basics of guitar? Making rubber stamps? Silk screening? Composting? Homemade beer, root beer, and wine? Soymilk?? Quill pens??? All in there.

Since it’s more punk, it doesn’t have a ton of the folksy, cottage vibes/hobbies, but it’s all about being resourceful and sustainable, which they both have in common.

If i ever need to do anything I’m not sure of, I double check this book to see if there’s anything in there. It’s one of the only books on diy I’ve ever needed.