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!

Hi hi hi! I'm trying to be less anxious/lazy to post on here, also have had a lot just kinda going on in my life atm. I'm thinking about doing some simple sketch comms for like $15-20 USD to cover some medical expenses. Probably will keep it as an open list, if anyone who sees this is interested, feel free to dm me or send an ask.

Kinda keeping it low key.

apologies for all the silence, been having some rough headaches and life happenings, but I am doing okay and thinking about how much I love my hustoof atm and just being so gay

HI TUMBLR, i'm so happy to finally get around to sharing this amazing art my hubby got for me for my birthday last friday!! this is such an amazing birthday gift.. thank you so much @tinybaphomet for drawing us!! it makes me so happy.. <3<3

happy pride, folks <3

I've been trying to mentally devalue my art a bit and just be able to get into the strides of it without thinking so previously of it again. I just want to make more art I general and do more, even if it's shitty or whatever

I'm gonna sketch some gay