Something I Try To Keep In Mind When Making Art That Looks Vintage Is Keeping A Limited Color Pallette.

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!

Today's beetle is Pink Flea Beetle (Asphaera quadrifasciata)

Lionherated

I think the fact that I drew the stuff in my notebook adds to the charm lol

MY WAX CRAYONS ARE DYING NOOOOO

art inspired by the song: urbangarde - akuma des akuma (yeule remix)

Abigail from stardew valley lets goooo

(im addicted to this game send help... must draw more fanarts)

Literally one of my favorite characters in the game because she says that she's hungry when I give her quartz. Stop eating the rocks girl...

Two versions because I'm indecisive

Some crayons are still standing... there's more of them and they're big but I must show the tiny. They did a good job. RIP.

Srry guys, will rant abt tragic OC lore later, must collect my thoughtsssss. Writing a whole speech in Microsoft word and preparing a PowerPoint presentation /j

Should I rant abt my OCs

A-and the story... the lore...?

i need a fucking retrofuturism poster with these words damn