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he such a goddamn struggle to draw
therefore i’m including a version without the “whore” because i spent way too long on his face for it it just be covered
i keep on accidentally de-freckling him i just have the memory of a goldfish
#color theory be damned#i hate backgrounds like the color is so damn muddy but idk how to fix it#also shading clothes. can’t do it.#anyway#i present to you alex’s version#idk alex is such a warm color person i just couldn’t do this version with the same cool colors i used for nigel#just imo tho#again pinterest pose references SAVES LIVES#like minds#nigel colbie#alex forbes#like minds 2006#art#alex forbes x nigel colbie#fan art
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the math is mathing?? maybe??
#my adventures with superman#maws#maws fanart#maws clark kent#maws lois lane#maws superman#maws jimmy olsen#maws kara#artists on tumblr#superman#superboy#dc fanart#digital art#doodles#dc universe#drawing#my art#fanart#i saw a tweet talking about this theory and i thought it was fun lol#if it turns out to be Jon and not Konner thats still cute lol. im fine with it being either superboy. but im like 95% its Kon but...#also i loooove this design for superboy!!! ugh like the design is peak idc what anyone says!! this design will always be famous#ig a side note but i drew this on my tablet not my ipad and the colors on my monitor...ooof...i need to fix that fr...damn#hope its good tho for everyone else lol :v
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morning cat yoga (yeah those 🏳️‍⚧️ colors were chosen like this on purpose)
#accidental purpose!#lemme break it down for y'all#so I didn't wanna use stupid boring white or grey as a bg AGAIN so I tried every damn color under the sun#figured only either pink or blue looks good#some misclicks happen and I end up realizing “why not both”#and then it hit me#this is so trans flag coded I'm keeping that#I am suddenly entirely in love with Flug being trans#ever since I drew that silly theory thing 2 months ago that went viral#villainous#villanos#vilanesco#dr flug#flug#kenning flugslys#black hat#paperhat#villainous black hat#villainous flug#catboy#trans#trans flug#my beloved#lgbtq#cartoon#fanart#my art#there's a pixel sized easter egg in this
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Jwct countdown May 14-15 prompt: Favorite Ship
Yaz and Sammy living the life I wish I had. Sapphic dinosaur ranch owners lol. Ft. Bumpy in the background
Of course I had to draw these two. Their kiss/confession scene is on repeat in my mind all the time and I’m still so just in awe that it happened. Here’s to hoping they stay together and happy throughout all of Chaos Theory! @campbenji
Timelapse undercut:
Song used in Timelapse (and is the same one I listened to on repeat while working on this)-> Real Love by Cat Clyde
#jwctcountdown#chaos theory#chaos theory spoilers#jwct spoilers#Yasammy#I’m a Yasammy shipper first and whatever else ship second.#Yasammy takes all of my attention. But I was also a Benji/Wildcity shipper during CC. Still kind of am. Listen that damn fannypack.#But I’m not against Benrius in CT. Just thought of them more as bros in CC. But I can see it.#Listen they deserve the Timelapse. I love them so much ughhhh.#I could’ve gone more with the shading but I didn’t want to make it too detailed since I’ve only got like a couple hours to color after work#The color orange how fitting for these two#Yes I know a regular wooden fence makes no sense but like how could they have a cute kiss with an actual Dino-proof one in the way?#Oh yea should probably#jwcc sammy#jwcc yasmina#yasmina fadoula#sammy gutierrez#AL’s scribblings of Nublar
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Unexpected but fair.
How long were we disconnected?
#uhmm if it looks weird or ugly thats a you issue. Sorry not sorry im trying not to burn out by doing overcomplicated animation every time!!!#teehee#hes a pain in the ass dude gooooodddddd this took longer than i'd hope itd take...#but the background looks pretty fuckin cool i think it was worth it#theres so much to do in this environment#also lmfao i had to change the palette bc of damn color theory. so. he may be sickly green. maybe.#hngrfthhhhh its done thank god now we can move on#i have an 11 day deadline to get where i need to be LETS GO LETS GO#he doesn’t usually keep track of time btw :-)#[you've got mail!]#spamton#spamton g spamton#deltarune#deltarune spamton#deltarune chapter 2#uhhh if he looks weird blame.. uhm.. blame him because his ass was believe it or not TOO TALL for the canvas#youre telling me this short little shithead was too tall???#fgrtrggffghhhhhh
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Linzumi as That one pic
B/w version under the cut
#linzumi#lin beifong#izumi#legend of korra#tlok#its lowkey bad but i did my best 🫡#i need to finally learn that damn color theory omg
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Well what CANNOT be assumed from your art is that you’re colorblind
Because it’s so dang vibrant
well thank you! I'll even show you my secret to vibrant art!
call it overcompensation, but i tend to purposefully exaggerate colors when i draw! While i know what colors go well together in theory, i cant see it myself. (at least my old color theory class helped me figure out how to somewhat fake the colors, lol)
to show what i mean, here's an example i made! My girl Rust, I KNOW she's orange, I made her myself after all. but to make sure other people know, i exaggerate the colors and push the colors to prove my point.
both of these look the same to me. I cant tell the difference, but using the color wheel i can see that the version on the right is more desaturated and has less vibrant colors. im not sure how stark the difference is, if its even visible to other people.
basically i know what colors go well together, and how they are seen in theory, but when it comes to my own vision, most of what i see tends to be either brown, grey, or i simply go off of warm or cool tones.
fake it till you make it, baby!
#my artwork#i suck at seeing colors but damn it i know how to use them! (mostly)#fun fact! i see yellow/purple the best. and in color theory thats the closest to black and white#which sucks for me because I CANT SEE THE MAJORITY OF COLORS#thats why i tend to shade with yellow/purple. a good light and dark variant#i can see the differences in light/dark but individual colors vex me
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local dad gets scared shitless when his son leans over the steampunk airship just a little too excitedly
#professor layton#hershel layton#luke triton#my art#professor layton and the new world of steam#studying that wallpaper was so interesting actually#color theory be damned. just study a prof lay environment#also those buildings are constructed suspiciously like the buildings in san fransisco#btw those airships? SEXY
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what I don't miss about being a part of the buddie fandom is looking for clues everywhere where there weren't any: colors of their shirts, for example... Like now I just get to enjoy canon stuff, actual kisses and hugs and shared looks and I know they mean SOMETHING
#911 abc#bucktommy#there is especially 1 tumblr user who has been posting for a long time and i used to follow them since they are sort of popular#and every damn season she would be like: they are going canon this season bc of x y and z and i would BELIEVE her#only to end up sad#god i feel like i can think clearly again#and theories are fun dont get me wrong but when you start obsessing over what color the character's shirt is because IT MUST MEAN SOMETHING#youre in too deep#evan buckley#tommy kinard#911 on abc#and no this isnt meant to be hate just my experience#i still think theyre cute but you know... i like the way they are now as friends
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So you're telling me that Barnaby's RGB weed isn't even REAL?
its real! it is a physical Thing!
#i mean illusion as in it's used to Create illusion magic#the weed itself he keeps in a lil pouch <3#rgb weed... i Snorted...#rambles from the bog#wh fantasy au#damn could you imagine if it Wasnt real#howdy: whatcha smoking barn???#barnaby: abstract concepts#frank: thats. you cant do that#barnaby: *long drag of existential rainbow blunt* 'course not. thats why im only smoking in Theory#frank: ...what is that color. i dont know that color. i shouldnt be able to see that color- JULIE-
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I show up to the children's hospital wearing this.
I'm immediately trampled because I blend into the floor.
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❲ @hanabisays ❳
There's sorrow that radiates from her, it's permeated the space around her, and Malchior simply watches. Because of course he does. He's distant and proud and so very numb, because very little has been written in any color on his pale gold ⎛ parchment ⎠body. He's dipped his fingers in various paints he's seen around the Ward, but he's yet to truly stain- to be filled with anything other than the base magic of a dragon. Not that it's such a bad thing, but ... it's so strange not being able to feel much at all. He has to re-learn emotion, a rather important thing to have in the first place.
âťť Your soul aches, âťž he says, because he's felt in in the color as he's walked over it. It's dull, but he pities her for it.
Her color feels like the weight of the world, and Malchior wonders if he'll be filled with something like that, too. Surely, if he stays too long, if she reaches out to grab him- although she seems in a state where she'd be more likely to wrap her arms around herself. âťť Carrying such pain at your core ... I once knew someone else like that- filled with a burden that was not meant to be hers. âťž
#hanabisays 01#hanabisays#⎛ event ⎠color theory#using this as an excuse for an event starter lmao#malchior vc man raven also had a huge burden damn
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If you did open commissions, what would your prices be?
uh cheap as hell. 5 bucks for a rendered headshot with a simple background. max 25 dollars for a fully rendered drawing (fullbody / halfbody whatever) with a detailed background. if u want another character its 2 dollars more.
#i understand why people make commisions for a higher price becasue god damn the stuff they put out is jaw droppingly goregous and worth it#but idk im not at that level yet so why should i charge like i am? i dont know anything about color theory or anatomy. idk anything lmao#maybe once i learn fundamentals and i actually feel comfortable making people PAY for my art then ill make fully rendered drawing like $40#vasks
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Wheeler/Byers Wardrobe Analysis
Season 1 Part 2
Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Hello, hello, hi. Continuing this journey through Stranger Things attire. And I want to preface quickly that I don’t have an agenda. I’m just examining the clothes as I go and seeing what I think they tell me. I'm not digging for evidence of anything.
Anyway, Episode 3! Nancy gets home from Steve’s house and is confronted by Karen in her lil PJs. Do these PJs seem familiar? Oh yeah. They look like Nancy’s.
The next day at school, post red-stripe-shirt-at-the-pool-party, Nancy’s wearing another light sweater, a common Nancy top choice. But this one’s intriguing to me because while it contains the same two colors she usually wears, they’re darker. Darker blue and more of a brick red, but they’re small stripes on this delicate sweater. We also saw her wear stripes for the first time in the aforementioned red shirt. So this outfit here feels like a compromise between what she chose for Steve for the party and what she usually chooses for herself because of the stripes. The darker colors I think are not intended to reflect Steve in any way, but Nancy's state of mind. She's worried about Barb and feeling conflicted about the whole experience of losing her virginity. She's paranoid right off the bat when she walks into school that people are looking at her differently. She's feeling weighed down and the shades of her colors are reflecting that.
I was also immediately into Steve’s shirt here because Steve, for the entirety of this season, wears blue. But here, and only here, the blue has shrunken down to a few stripes on this shirt. This shirt which also contains pastel pink, a color Nancy is often wearing or surrounded by, but not wearing in this scene. Both Nancy and Steve are wearing clothes that reflect one another more than usual, and yet they don't quite match. This is the most I can recall Steve ever reflecting the Wheeler color palette (I'll find out if I'm wrong later). This is also the day after he slept with Nancy. So I think his choice to wear Wheeler colors afterwards shows that he feels closer to Nancy while her choice to wear darkened colors shows that she's feeling hesitant and unsure.
Here, Karen has dressed Holly up in light pink and blue (as per usual), but she herself is wearing a navy and teal plaid dress with black tights. She wears plaid a lot, but in order to bring a casserole to Joyce (a mourning behavior), she’s donned darker colors than usual. This scene already felt uncomfortable to me, like Karen doesn’t know how to behave because she’s giving Joyce a casserole (like when someone in the family has died) even though Will is not yet believed to be dead. Maybe this isn't unusual. I apologize for my ignorance on casserole etiquette, but it’s an awkward moment there at the door. And Karen’s wardrobe choice here makes me feel even MORE like she doesn’t know how to behave. She’s intentionally dressing less light and happy than usual but not in the official mourning color. And dressing Holly the way she usually does really shows this juxtaposition because Karen often matches Holly to herself. So this is like looking right at how Karen usually presents herself next to how she's choosing to now.
This episode puts Mike in this green and blue striped shirt. In the first photo, he’s talking with El before he goes to school. El is dressed in Mike’s clothes, a navy pullover and grey sweatpants. Blue is Mike’s color and grey is a neutral he (and Nancy) is often seen in. For example, in earlier episodes, both Mike and Will wore shirts with blue and yellow stripes, but Mike’s was also grey and Will’s was also brown. Grey is a cool toned color, a Wheeler neutral, while brown is a warm, earthy Byers neutral. So El’s outfit is screaming I BORROWED THIS FROM MIKE WHEELER in every way. She then spends the day wandering the Wheeler house and examining everything. She’s basically trying to figure out what it means to live like a Wheeler, to have grown up in this home with these parents and with blood siblings. She’s trying to put herself figuratively in Mike’s shoes while literally wearing his clothes.
And back to the Wheeler vs Byers neutrals, I really love that Mike is wearing this tan jacket when he goes to school. It’s a very Byers jacket. It’s got corduroy on the collar and brick accents on the inside. In the screenshot here, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas are being harassed by the bullies making fun of Will. They also trip Mike despite the fact that it’s Will they’re mocking. Basically, they’re treating Mike as a proxy Will while Mike is wearing this Byers-esque jacket. He’s also wearing the jacket for the remainder of the episode as the party hunts for Will (and as they witness his "body" being pulled from the quarry), but he was not wearing at home with El while his attention was on her.
I forgot to mention this jacket in my last post, but Mike also wore it in episode 1 while the bullies were harassing him. And he leant the jacket to El after they found her in episode 2.
She's wearing this big yellow shirt (Will's color) and Mike puts her in this Byers-y jacket. El isn't really El to him yet in this scene. She's some strange girl they found while looking for Will who Mike keeps around in hopes of her helping him find Will. So in addition to El wearing Mike's clothes in episode 3 and acting like Mike, in episode 2, she's wearing a Will-coded outfit and being valued for her connection to Will. The wardrobe for El this season has no reflection whatsoever on who she is as a person because she doesn't know yet nor do the other characters. So when Mike was at home with her in the red shirt, no jacket (episode 2), that moment felt more about the two of them getting to know each other outside of how she can help him find Will.
Joyce has been wearing this same outfit since late episode 1. Jonathan also wore the same outfit during both episodes 1 and 2, but now he’s changed his clothes and what he has changed into…is the same shirt he was wearing in the flashback in episode 2. Obviously, the episodes that go by without Joyce or Jonathan changing their clothes speak to how panicked by Will’s disappearance they are. But once he does change his clothes, the choice for Jonathan to put on the same shirt he was wearing in a memory he was just reflecting on is really curious. And by “choice,” I mean on a grander, show-level. Not Jonathan’s choice. He’s seen snagging this shirt up without even glancing at it and tossing it on as he gets out of bed. The costume department chose to put Jonathan back in this shirt we’d just seen him in via flashback for a reason. I find it notable that Jonathan changes his shirt again before going to school. He just spent two days in the same outfit and now he cares enough to change twice in the same morning? Weird. That’s all I’m saying. Maybe it reminded him of that same moment just like Should I Stay or Should I Go coming on in the car did, and maybe it was too hard for him to think about it again. So he changed. Or maybe it felt too light for the mood he was in.
During the Steve Hulk Camera Smash scene, Jonathan is wearing black and a dark grey or dark denim button-down. Dark colors. Darker than usual. The polar opposite of the first shirt he put on that morning. He usually has more earth tones in his wardrobe than this and I think this choice is less about mourning, as the dark colors could indicate, as it is about guilt. This is because even after he believes Will to be dead, Jonathan doesn’t start wearing blacks. This scene, instead, takes place after he does his stalker photo shoot of Steve’s party. So the dark colors are very likely a reflection of how he feels inside, having done something dark. He took photos of other people, including Nancy undressing, without consent and despite the fact that we know this is not what he set out to do, he did do it, spur of the moment. Now in the aftermath, he feels guilty and ashamed.
EPISODE FOUR
I had to lighten this one a lot to really see what the colors are. Karen is still wearing the dark plaid dress from the last episode while Ted is wearing what appears to be a white button down with red and blue checkprint. Very Wheeler. He’s continuing to present himself in the Wheeler fashion while Karen is struggling with figuring out how to present herself. When she got dressed, Will was missing. Now, in this screenshot, Will has been declared dead and Barb is missing. Karen doesn’t know how to be there for her children (or for Joyce earlier) and the way she dresses in this episode reflects that she feels like she can’t continue on the way she has been. (side note: check out the couch and throw pillow. Wheeler pastels)
Here’s Karen later (sorry I don't have a full body shot). She’s wearing a cream turtleneck, a dark grey vest, and black pants (out of the shot). Her prints, her checks, and her pastels are gone.
Nancy and Steve fight. She’s wearing pink (just pink) and he’s wearing blue with maroon stripes. Going back to what I said about their outfits in the previous episode, it looks like Steve is still sporting Nancy’s influence while she has dropped his. This is the first time we’ve seen Nancy in a solid color with no prints or detailing, her PJs aside. Even her purple sweater from E2 contained threads of other colors. So she’s in solid pink, she says to Steve, “I can’t believe you,” then she walks away and leaves him in the alley. And WHAT DOES THIS PARALLEL?
I’ll get to that scene later, but for now, I’m intrigued by the fact that both Steve and Nancy are wearing grey in the season 2 fight whereas in this season 1 fight, they’re wearing opposing colors, though Steve’s shirt contains bits of Nancy’s coloring, which shows that he’s more invested in Nancy than she is in him. This is probably a contentious point to make for season 1 considering he’s being a douche in this scene and making Barb’s disappearance about himself. BUT I stand by the fact this his feelings for Nancy are stronger than her feelings for him, even here, despite the fact that he’s lousy at showing it and his mind is in the wrong place.
In season 2, they’re actually on a lot more common ground. Maybe this is why they’re wearing the same color. There’s no more I’m-right-you’re-wrong. There’s only this-isn’t-working. But back to season 1.
I hate to say this, but this shot here is giving me hella “It’s twins and one’s a boy and one’s a girl!” vibes. Which is kind of irrelevant. What actually matters is that El is wearing Nancy’s clothes. She’s wearing a wig and yet another article of Wheeler clothing, presenting herself as a different Wheeler. She even had short hair when dressed in Mike’s clothes and long hair here dressed in Nancy’s. It’s kind of like she’s trying out the Wheeler life from both angles.
Guys, I don’t know HOW I never realized how much pink and baby blue the Wheelers are surrounded by. LOOK AT THIS WALLPAPER!!! Plus, with El in pink and Mike in blue and the greenery in front of the mirror, they basically ARE the wallpaper. It’s pink, blue, and green leaves. What is the reason. It basically tells us that this (Mike and this version of El) together equals Wheeler conformity. And by “this version of El” I mean her dressing like someone else and trying to behave like someone else. This version of El is still trying to find herself, trying to fit in (a theme that returns later). Basically Mike + dishonest El or confused El = unhappy couple pretending to be in love (Ted + Karen). Eleven is spending this season trying on other people’s clothes and other people’s lives because she never got to have one. And this image is a big red flag right here because I can’t imagine anyone looking at this shot and thinking “awe cute.” It’s so newborn baby-colored and domestic it makes me gag. This screams that El needs to find herself in order to avoid THIS. This nuclear nightmare.
This also feels weirdy similar to what we just witnessed of Steve and Nancy, what with the baby pink and blue solid colored costuming. Almost like a MIRROR IMAGE WOULDN’T YOU SAY? No, I’m stretching. I’m actually reaching blindly. I have no idea where I’m going with that. But the mirror shot is interesting. If anything, I’d say it ties back to them being a mirror of Mike’s parents BUT I can’t help but think there’s subtext here for both couples about gender roles what with these colors being, as I mentioned, the ones assigned to babies at birth. El will later go on to find that she’s the fighter. Steve will go on to be the babysitter. Defying gender role expectations. Both of these characters are trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be this season while both Mike and Nancy are trying to find their lost friends.
Basically, I’m getting identity crises and Don't Become Your Parents.
And to finish off with the Byers...Joyce is still wearing the same outfit she’s been in since episode 1. Clearly collapsing. And Jonathan Show's-Over Byers is wearing this cozy lil sweater fit to the morgue, which I find especially interesting in this scene here:
Jonathan, in his lil beige sweater, is matching Hopper's uniform. And this is the first time these two characters really connect. Prior to this, Hopper has shot Jonathan down and told him to let Hop do his job. Here, they're talking openly and calmly, and they're talking about Joyce. They are speaking on even footing about someone they both care about (though at this point in time, we aren't sure the extent of Hopper's feelings for or history with Joyce) and they are matching. This feels especially intentional when you watch moments before, when Jonathan was looking at "Will's" body and see that he was wearing a jacket and then the scene after when they're leaving (above) and he's wearing the jacket again. He didn't take it off to come inside, but specifically for this sit-down moment with Hopper.
#stranger things wardrobe analysis#stranger things#st season 1#nancy wheeler#mike wheeler#jonathan byers#karen wheeler#damn tags are annoying#wheeler family#byers family#el hopper#steve harrington#byler color theory#this is so long omg#my dumbass post
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This is my personal reminder for the next time I color to remember to power through the ugly phase cause you are a fucking genius who knows what’s what
#fuck color theory but at least you have a good grip on it#don’t doubt yourself and use that damn superiority complex to your advantage#the imposter syndrome is not real
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What the fuck is up with the "blue eyes theory" thing I see everywhere on insta literally none of them look good. I get that it's supposed to make a character look more attractive and/or intimidating but it. does not. at all.
#the worst offenders are characters with yellow or red eyes#they ALWAYS look awful. it NEVER suits them#ESPECIALLY YELLOW.#also im pretty sure half of these people arent even doing it right#i think its only supposed to be a glowing light blue and not the deep blue a lot of ppl seem to go for fsr#cant even do the damn 'theory' right#i genuinely do not get why people like this#the only ones that are even close to looking decent are the ones that... barely change...#like characters with teal eyes & stuff#and even then they look much better with their og eye color#listen i dont usually complain about stuff like this bc in the end its all harmless#but im tired and sleep deprived and kinda stressed bc of irl stuff and i want to be a hater for just a bit. a tiny bit.#anyway thats all im annoyed and tired and im gonna go do. not complaining stuff now#xander rambles
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