#ART DROUGHT OVER

[awesomesaurous]

Bring me my bow of burning gold

Bring me my arrows of desire

Bring me my spear; O clouds unfold

Bring me my chariot of fire!

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I don't usually draw Wigfrid but I felt compelled to while listening to "jerusalem" by elgar and parry (or the emerson lake and palmer version, if you prefer). All the best singers I've met tend to have this physique, rooted and grounded to the earth, stocky and rock solid, with barrel chests and booming powerful voices. @the-valiant-valkyrie and their interpretations of Wigfrid, and the cross-section of acting, music, religion, and proving oneself worth anything without a role to play, all have me thinking more about a character I've tended to dismiss. I have seen the light, thank you!

[hinamie]

itafushi nation how r we Feeling!!!!!!!!!!!

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[gothamverse]

panel redraw doodle... bouncing him around in my head like a windows screensaver

[ilajue]

oh hey unfinished bubbline art, what are you doing here

[brainlicking]

You shouldn't staying hanging upside down for too long, all the blood rushes to your head.

Image ID below the cut.

[ID: A digital illustration of Patton Sanders with a brainlicking.tumblr signature. The drawing is of him from the waist up, he is hanging upside down and making a loveheart symbol with his hands. His cat-hoodie is hanging down from where it is tied around his shoulders, with the arms of the hoodie draped over his wrists.

Instead of a head, there is a large anatomical heart hanging from the neck of Patton's shirt.

The background is black with upside-down scribbled lovehearts in faded grey.

At the bottom of the picture is handwritten text that reads, "Ruling the head with the heart."

End ID]

[ghoulgeists]

IT'S HER YEAR!

[dandy-andyyy]

hey, nana…do you remember the first time we met? 🍓

[applestruda]

Im going to be insane on saturday ill never shut up

[ailius-suffers-through-art]

sycamore sunday baebyy (ft. baby luke)

[luminique]

looking through the lighter tag at the end of the day and your posts are there 😭 I am fed I am happy

HAVE YOU SEEN THAT OFFICIAL STORY ART OF LIGHTER (DONT!!!! READ AHEAD IF YOU HAVENT AND DONT WANT MINOR SPOILERS !!!!) ooohh my god. not to yearn on main but imagine him letting you help him bandage him up or him softly watching you trace your hand along his scars. If you ask he'll probably tell you where he got them but he doesn't wanna make you uncomfortable by just straight up telling you GAH I LOVE HIM

I keep thinking about how he's the one of newest sons of calydon members and the whole idea around being friends since before he had joined them and just . ouugh. And maybe you join him (and he will literally never forget it even though he wont mention how much that means to him)

Something something being the mechanic to his biker . I can't spell it out I had a mokent of clarity and got embarrassed about all this but I'm NOT TURNING ANON ON AGAIN!!!! I want to talk about him so badly he's such a loser (/pos)

he’d definitely not tell you straight up from what we’ve seen in the story currently. he lightly dances around the topic, maybe thinking it might push you away from him. who would love someone who’s covered in scars? but the moment you show even more interest and care, it softens him so much.

ALSO since i just finished the quest, he says at the end that we’re (proxy/mc) the only ones that remember him. like i literally did this whole event FOR YOU !! and if the SoC ever ask about you two, he’d get flustered when you’d start talking about your friendship with him. you’re mentioning some embarrassing moments and he just clears his throat and gets up, saying that he needs to get more nitro-fuel (there’s still a lot left). seeing you talk to the girls from afar, reminded him of when he first met you. he was beat up, bruised, earning titles for himself, people would never voluntarily go up to him without the intent of starting a fight. and yet you did, bearing no ill intent and only pure interest in wanting to know him.

for the last one, OUGSHSGSKDG i genuinely have like a thing for machinery (robot men i love) but i never see it through because i fear i am not a mechanic/engineer. definitely will try to write a long proper post for it so maybe in the future (maybe after his release?). BUT THE VISION !! I SEE IT !!

[tuallart]

sorry for leaving you guys hanging here's historically accurate gramon

[yume-aeae]

dreams are super super interesting

i wanna know what makes my sleep brain come up with stuff like being dragged around a fuzzy playplace area thingy happily, while asking people what their names and pronouns are, but none being able to tell me because of some parental contract, while a buff furry tiger tried to find me and when he did he held of his question "for later"

i want to know

[inkfaire]

some art i made as promo for my gordon-bubby centric fic, inspired by the hlvrai thumbnails :] never got around to posting it tho, so i'll just dump 'em here else risk them rotting away in my files

you can read the fic here, if you're so inclined :3

bonus doodle i found nestled within the layers of the project files (idk how it ended up there)

[peachy-doodles]

wait fuck i just realized im finally older than Alyx and am one year off from Gordon. oh gawd....................... someone PLEASE let them out of video game development hell. they need to AGE !!!!!!

[straycalamities]

i wanna draw but the thing is: i Think too much when i draw and so the horrors flood in