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Huevember, Day 1-3 palette.
I am sorry everyone, I may have fun ideas sometimes, but I have the energy of a malnutrition-ed slug. 20th June, 2023
It’s my last day at the library and I’m resting this weekend, so I’m dropping these into the world early!
Five new mid-month brushes. Two thank-you-for-keeping-me-afloat brushes. These are Clip Studio brushes. Use them with the ellipse ruler or free-draw em. See you again at the end of the month. Links to past brushes are below:
Textured Ink Brushes (Photoshop) | Easy Stylized Hair Brush | Miscellaneous Mix Set | Spilled Ink Brush Set | Super 90s Carpet Brushes | Even More Decoration Brushes | Some More Repeating Patterns | Ornate Decoration Brush Drop | Netting and Lines | Lip & Hair Gloss | Glitter & Sparkles | Destiny Brush Pack | Valentine’s Frame Set | Candy Coated Brush Drop | Bloody Throne Pack | Magic & Daggers Set | Tarot Pack Brushes (October Update) | Elfy Card Set | Big Ol’ Card Asset Drop | All Those Brushes
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!
honestly adding a paper background to your digital canvas is a game changer and i suggest you do it if you want to feel like you're actually drawing on paper with real pencils, or at least an approximation of it. i could share some if anyone's interested
two (2) people asked how i did the matchbook thing so take this
this is just a simple idea but if you spend some more time you can get real krazy with it:
making fake prints is so fun please do it immediately free resources under cut xoxo
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Tf2 art style analysis
I looked at the main Tf2 comic and wrote down some features of the art. If you want to draw stuff in the Tf2 art style, this post is for you!
If you want me to look at any other features, tell me! I’m always happy to help.