Im Drawing OCs On Paper That Can Be Considered Toilet Paper Atp Again

Im drawing OCs on paper that can be considered toilet paper atp again

Another OC that I would like to introduce is this savage brat... Her name is Baau. She looks cute, but don't be fooled by her appearance.

I don't draw her much but she is playing a major role in the story. I forgot to mention it in the last post but the story itself is called "Edge of the universe". I was too lazy to make up my own title and I named it after the song I liked. Yea.

Friendly reminder that I don't have a ref sheet for any of my OCs just because I know they are either gonna be redesigned or my drawing style is going to change drastically. And im too lazy to repeat the process over and over.

Anyways

Baau and Nick have this sort of child-parent relationship

Juvenile delinquent catgirl with behavioral problems and her 2 meter tall robot stepdad that happens to be a merciless killing machine. Beautiful combo. Nothing bad is going to happen to them ;)

my blog is called "hive" for a reason it's like a metaphor for my head, in which my thoughts are constantly buzzing just like bees. or wasps. or hornets. constant loud noise that doesn't stop; and that never will.

new ideas, new thoughts, new emotions, they flow, they all flow and i do my best to create a dam.

the dam cracks.

i need to remember how to draw properly on my graphic tablet cuz my canvases from csp are fucking gorgeous damn...

why did my drawing style deteriorate sm :(

like, here r some of beautiful examples how it used to be, all of em at least 1 yr old cuz i didn't draw on my graphic tablet for a long time

and now my drawings are skrunkly at best

how do i fix this

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!

listening to linkin park while drawing fluttershy feels like this lol

maybe the meme is not unique, but i drew this shit myself