#desaturated palette

[airatz]

•°♡Stealing Your Heart♡°•

Happy valentines day!

Hope everyone has a good day, whether having a valentine or not! Me n the other singles can chill while watching Coraline💪😼

(Cw: Realistic Heart !)

[warmfuzzyanimal]

had an identity crisis, prime time for a slight sona redesign!

it's cow! (again!)

+ a closeup because i'm really proud of the eyes

[carlyraejepsans]

Beware the Mountain's King

[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!]

[u3pxx]

casts spell of saturates you

[kaqzu]

Since I don't like to wait or make people wait… I'll end this quickly.

[cyber-phobia]

For my genshin impact enjoyers: 3rd raiden puppet because a forgotten middle child is always funny

anything and everything that happens to them is purely because to was the funniest route to me.

ZOOM ON MY DETAILS OR I'LL DIE.

[pigswithwings]

dinner is not over!

[artfulbassoon]

🏴‍☠️ The #1 Heron 🏴‍☠️

The SMP hasn't even started and I've already decided that this the Scott design of all time

[wickedcriminal]

Some Last Dragon warm ups from ages ago!! I'd really like to come back to it at some point

[fraternum-momentum]

Busted and Blue.

[inspo from this twt !]

[ver with no tears here !]

[ingravinoveritas]

A stunning production still from Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse.

[qoldenskies]

there are a lot of parallels/lines/moments in cc that completely rely on it being in the written word (and a lot of parts that couldnt even be translated to art/animation or anything, like almost the entirety of ME) but goddddd the amount of visual parallels i could do if i ever drew it .... maybe i could fuck around for funsies anyway. get my ideas down onto the paper. i absolutely love visual storytelling man

[wardensantoineandevka]

I also saw a mod called No Parrots that took away the vibrant colors of the griffons and changed them to be muted and mostly-grayish, and out of spite, I desperately need someone to recolor the griffons to match various macaws

[jils-things]

🧲⛏️/🌼🎀

this is a remastered drawing of an old constabell art i made months back (it was for his birthday :3)

[copheemoth]

a bunch of new pixelart palettes :D enjoy