#for the hues

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doodles ageswap shou for The Illnesses

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Pride Month is upon us again and so it is time to repost my little guy, Hue! I’m wishing everyone a safe, supportive, positive, and enlightening Pride, whether you’re all the way “out” or not!

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All of them together!

Prints available 🌿

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⭐ Pixel Art Fundamentals - Hue Shifting

This technique is not uniquely specific to pixel art, but it's a very common term to hear when starting out watching those "dos and don'ts" videos. So what is hue shifting?

Hue shifting basically means to change the hue when making your shade darker or lighter. In this context, 'hue' = colour!

You may hear 'you need to hue shift more' when getting feedback on your art, but what does that mean really? Here are some examples:

We can see even with just a bit of hue shifting, we have quite a different vibe for each drawing. In warm / daylight settings, no hue shifting can sometimes look a bit muddy or grey.

If we swap the image to grayscale, you can see that they look much the same:

As long as the hue shifted colours have a brightness that makes sense, they usually will work. You can get quite wacky with it.

But is hue shifting always good? Not necessarily.

Below is some of my art where I intentionally didn't hue-shift at all. You can see it gives them an uncanny, digital, or photographic kind of look. As always, techniques are about your intention, or personal style.

I recommend trying different hue shifting methods! I especially love to use a cool blue or teal for the lighter shades.

Thanks for reading and I hope this helped a little! Have fun with it!!

⭐ Read my full pixel art guide here!

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Illustrations of Vietnamese food. Credit to Le Rin.

[evil-cryptile]

I forgive him for being french on account of swag

[abejaenacuarela]

Who wants to love forever when love must die

I deeply dislike how harrow turned out but I'm not gonna redraw 💀

Song by Queen

[thecollectibles]

Art by Hue Teo

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internal screeching

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Hand placement✨✨✨

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egem portrait for @empiropediazine

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Reblog if you or someone you know is ace… I’m trying to see something

[heytherecentaurs]

You know how Flamingos are pink because of the shrimp they eat. That's also why Fig's skin is pink. It's not her fiendish heritage. It's her sheer shrimp intake. Yeah, she's a fiend. A fiend for shrimp.

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Marilyn Hue by Don Lim

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happy Valentine's Day my dears <3 you are all so very lovely