#colorist art

[killyridols]

scene 9 by trude viken, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 × 100 centimeters

[i12bent]

Folmer Bonnén (Feb. 17, 1885 - 1960) was a Danish Modernist artist, who had studied with Zahrtmann and helped found the group De Tretten in 1909. He was a bold colorist, bordering on Expressionism.

Later his art declined into nationalist pablum, and he personally ruined his reputation and legacy by writing for a Nazi newspaper during WWII.

Above: Komposition med fire kvinder, ca. 1916 - oil on board (Privately owned)

[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!]

[odioart]

MR FISH x ODIO DARKSTALKERS COLORFUL

[meziniart]

@moist-car PAINTED MY JAYROY I'M CRYING SCREAMING THROWING UP 😭😭 ououuwghh auuruegrghh ily ily

[harumichan12]

Finally finished colored the lasted Hori sketch of Bakugo 💛✨️

Cleaned by @_sneez__ on twitter

[amourcherie606]

lmao i normally dont do talky posts but i just want it to be known, that as a indigenous oaxacan (aztec) i fucking hate natlan LIKE!?@ im dropping genshin-or hoyo related games in general its so upsetting and downright shameful what theyve done with natlan.

PLEASE do NOT speak over indigenous voices!! this isnt just latinam cultures involved, there is Maori, Nigeran.- so many other indigenous cultures that have opinions on this. just because one latino says something doesnt mean it covers the majority.

natlan has blatant colorism. plain and simple. yes there are white people in latam BUT THAT IS NOT THE MAJORITY. black and brown people exist and these cultures mihoyo is pulling from happen to have a large majority of said people.

just because they are a chinese company doesn't excuse this- its rude to assume all of china is colorist / racist, especially since CHINESE FANS THEMSELVES have been complaining about hoyoverse's colorism! Genshin literally has dark-skinned npcs, npcs that are way darker than their playable cast that are OFC enemy npcs. there is no excuse for this. genshin is a global game. hoyoverse prides themselves on cultural research and accuracy, yet when it comes to sumeru or natlan they suddenly mix and mash cultures.

i didnt mean to ramble about this but HRGHRHG i used to enjoy hoyoverse games but its hard to enjoy something that actively shits on your entire culture alongside others.

[searchsystem]

Dan Flavin / (to Don Judd, Colorist) 6 / Lithograph / 1987

[mh2o29]

boys kissing sloppy style....IN COLOR🌈✨

i colored one of my scream'd stuilly kiss drawings from this post bc they are infecting my brain again someone save me!!!!

(pls click for better quality please and thank youuuuu)

this kiss has taken a hold on me once again (it never left) I cannot stop thinking about them

ive been coloring a lot more lately and actually liking the results guys why am I becoming a colorist hold on....

shoutout to @andromourir and @atitanbitch for helping me craft this Tumblr post in the debaser discord vc-2 chat..... which speaking of you guys wanna join sooooo bad join us please we have BOOK CLUB (we listen to atlas read fanfiction out loud) it is so fun

most importantly we have REMI so you GOTTA join now

[innmortality]

To fan artists, Jacob is lighter than Assad, stop drawing Louis dark-skinned. Jacob has a light-brown skin tone, he’s not dark-skinned.

See Jacob is lighter than Assad.

[herstrayskies]

"I'll give you all that I am, so please, please..."

Noragami Chapter 108 - Yatogami

[balshumetsbaragouin]

Back at it with more Green with Envy! This time the lines come from the amazing @moonfoxgazer! Thanks so much for the cool lines to work on. My brain decided it needed to be painted, so consider looking at a different style than my first piece.

Back to the battlefield!

Title: A Ghost Zone Gallop

[bokunocolor]

DABI…..

B̶u̶r̶n̶t̶…

Another beautiful piece by the amazing Otomoki !!🤝♥️. So grateful for the opportunity to colorize such awesome work

[bixels]

I've been making the transition these past few months, but I think I'm gonna just move back to Tumblr. My Twitter's follower-base has reached a point where I can't tweet anything casually opinion-related without it overflowing like a toilet. I post a short thread on my gripes with color design in anime and I'm getting QRT'd with "kill this guy with hammers" reaction gifs. Like, damn, this isn't fun anymore. It's not fun to talk about stuff on Twitter in general anymore. I wanted to post some ship dynamic doodles sometime there, but I know I'm gonna get weirdly aggressive takes and reactions. Monkey's paw curls, but I don't particularly like having that many followers.

[odioart]

Yoshiyuki Sadimoto x Odio Neon Genesis Evangelion Colorful New Eva colorings from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga and flat artist Odio. Available soon from Ovrthnk.

[artcinemas]

the racism and antiblackness in the bridgerton fandom might be the only period accurate thing about this show.