#anyways happy spooky month

[aroaceleovaldez]

♫ NOW NOT A TRACE OF YOUR LIVES REMAIN ♫

[pixlokita]

It’ll be oki

[the-light-of-animation]

Happy Halloween!

[karugoround]

おかあさん redraw

[itsnotmourn]

Not ship chart related but I think your art is so pretty!! Do you have any tips? Especially with coloring if it’s okay <] (/nf)

waah thank you very much! i'll try and explain but here’s my colouring-specific tips, or at least how i choose my colours !! <3

unless for stylistic reasons (e.g. greyscale drawing), i personally avoid pure black, greys and white for colouring. go and choose off-colours instead! for lineart, black is okay but i always go for an actual colour anyways heheh. for the background colour of your canvas, sometimes an actual colour (rather than white or grey) may help you pick your palette to be more harmonised!

following this, i also don't like using pure/neon for colours (aka the top right corner), unless it's for a certain aesthetic or artstyle (e.g. the character has a "toxic/radioactive" aesthetic; the character is a scenedog (or similiar); or highlights). see below for examples! they may be subtle but sometimes the subtly can make the difference you are looking for, especially if you're looking for a natural look. if you're aiming for the bright/old 2000's artstyle, then pure/neons may be your friend!

when i'm casually drawing characters (oc or not), i rarely colour-pick from the reference image. i find that when you're "forced to make the palette", it can come out more pleasing to your style/atmosphere of the drawing! it’s more personalised that way... like yea, that’s my favourite versions of those colours! i'm not saying that my colours are better though, only that "hey that's me! in those colours!!" you can have the reference image on the side or go by memory. here’s me doing this with pride flags:

nowadays, when drawing the spooky month characters—who have simple designs god bless—i can just imagine their reference and adjust the colours in my head lol example: if i know that Lila's colour palette is purple, and that her winter sweater is coloured lighter than her hair, then i can just go ahead and pick whatever shade i want following that rule!

(of course, always double check with the actual reference for physical design inaccuracies and skin tone if it applies. my advice above is just for general hair/clothing colours! …because yknow you don't want to accidentally whitewash a character's skin in the name of aesthetics lol. if you’re unsure and want to be on the careful side, please do colour pick the skin at least !!)

moving on... gradient maps and certain blending modes (like exclusion, luminosity and darken) can be a game changer too. for normal drawings (e.g. drawings with no environment), i use darken the most because it changes a few colours rather than the entire piece... (the percentages are opacity levels!)

oh and as a really basic shading tip without using blending modes: sometimes, you just gotta go for grey. shading a warmer colour? use grey to make a cool tone. shading a cool colour? use grey to make a warm tone. not all the time (because you don’t wanna make your shading seem muddy), just sometimes…

and that's that! there's always exceptions to rules and often times, your headshot doodle ends up as one big experimental mess (in a fun way, hopefully)!

this is how i choose my colours though most of the time, it is just me going “good enough”

i think we're pretty similar on how we like warm colours! i enjoy going the simple/lazy route and avoid blend modes but then again, shading is a whole different thing…

hope this helps in any way !! <:3 !!! <3

[tontalunar]

A little late with this but HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

tiredvan forever and always <3

I forgot to color in Ricks mouth AAAFUCCC

[mrpuzzle]

Happy birthday!! 🎂🎁🎈 @grimgummies

[i-have-no-idea-for-name]

X: what are your plans for halloween?

Me: I will exorcise every single child for celebrating this satanistic holiday ✝️

Oh, and also I'm going to celebrate Shrignold's birthday 🎉🥳🎂🎊 :D

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Don't lose your head~

[panbhonpan]

Just two homies hanging and talking

[lilacstars15]

I drew Len and Rin as Skid and Pump because it's spooky month :)

[mer-se]

peace place 🤍

[lil-lemon-snails]

gwah! it be me, your secret skeleton! >:D

question for you, silly snail;

what is your favorite fall activity? carving pumpkins, trick or treating, watching scary movies, etc? :3

Eek!! hello!! I think i have to say watching spooky movies! especially if popcorn and/or sweet treats are involved >:3

[i-am-megalodonna]

I'm sure the reason for DexterFella's hair being all spiky is to differentiate him from the regular Happy Fella doll and to use shape language to make him look more aggressive, but my headcanon in-universe reason why it's like that is twofold:

He's in the company of two energetic youngsters who spend the entire episode literally dragging him along on their escapades, and there's no way his hair would survive that unchanged for six months.

He pulls at his hair when he's frustrated or overwhelmed, which is most of the time. So if he hadn't been messed up by being tossed around he would've messed it up himself anyway.

[the-spooky-children]

PLEASZE MAKE A SELF INSERT OR OC AND SHIP THEM WITH SLMEOEN THAT WOULD BE SO SILLY OMFG /NF

Who's Slmeoen /gen

[cryolyst]

hi everyone. unreleased vamp rodrick dabi from 2020 i guess.