#Tico Art

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SLAPPING HAPPY FACES ON BUILDINGS -- A GENIUS IDEA IN AN UGLY WORLD

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Gussa," Costa Rican street artist's "smiley face" work, c. 2016. 📸: Naty Aguirre & Alberto Font for the Rich Times.

TICO TIMES: "Why did you choose a happy face as your image?"

GUSSA (street artist): "Actually, the face wasn’t going to be a face. At first I thought it would be some rectangles with awesome colors, but once I made the rectangles it was impossible not to make a happy face… The one located at Circunvalación [highway] en route to Escazú will always be the best one. When I try to do something that’s not a happy face, I always end up making the happy face. All artists have a line. It’s very hard not to continue with that line. It’s a happy face that varies: there are 3D faces made with cardboard."

TICO TIMES: "How do you choose your color palette?"

GUSSA: "The color palette is the most important part. It’s about the brightness that light gives to the color. After various years I’ve noticed that I end up using the same colors. They repeat themselves. I’ve always liked yellow. After studying it, I realized that it’s the color that reflects the most light, but it’s also the hardest one to cover. I also like blue and light blue because of how they reflect the light. The only color that represents something to me is pink, because it’s super stigmatized by society with the idea that it’s for women only. It’s important to me because of the anarchy [it can create]: I try to use it so that people are wrong when they emit an opinion about it. If you were told that yellow is a “woman’s color,” you would’ve thought that, because you were told so. That’s what happens when you don’t question things."

Source: https://ticotimes.net/2016/02/28/5-questions-for-a-costa-rican-street-artist-we-came-to-this-world-to-be-happy.

[camzi-p]

Costa Rica Hatsune Miku

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[shyranno]

Happy belated birthday, Kelly Marie Tran! I love you always

Piece done for @forcefatalezine <3

[lilibethdrawsreylo]

A modern GingerRose commission. General manager Hux is about to regret being so handsy. 😏

[coffeeecatss]

Happy Star Wars Day!

[erebusbored]

This movie's so good and for what.

[meetingyourmaker]

Rey and Rose Talking about Stuff

Just chilling and hanging around.

[marinersubmariner]

Sailor Moon screencap redraw as Star Wars feat. Ben and Rose

Reference under the cut

[keylimeart]

some valentines day sketches, for you,

[womenofswzine]

📡 TRANSMISSION INCOMING 📡

Kicking off our page art previews with @abreca 's stunning work of Rose Tico! Pre-Orders for Rebel, Rebel: Women of Star Wars open now until August 31st!

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[dark-london]

A kiss while captive. . .

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

|||| A little GingerRose after a long absence ||||. Working on posting more often.

[deathstardroid]

Alternate, festive rise of skywalker ending.

[blacklakritzart]

Big Tusks, bigger Jaw

[cha-cha-arts]

• “Mr. Hux” “Ms. Tico.” •

There is no better feeling than scowling at your soon-to-be lover like GingerRose! Giving me Pride & Prejudice vibes 💕

Requested by celestial_mess1 on IG when I posted the “Draw 4 Ships” on my story!

[lilibethdrawsreylo]

The fleet of ships commissioned by a captain with great taste 🚢

[antisocial-mariposa]

✨He's a runner, he's a track star✨