#the whole color palette changes!!!

[rist-ix]

https://www.tumblr.com/rist-ix/749015401700229120 not you reblogging this when you ship bloom with the man who murdered her family 😭

Bloom's into ppl who slay! Hope this helps :3

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - End of the World

[simandy]

Being Normal about Henri Chang

[firestorm09890]

Ienzo the Liar

[venndaai]

insane. they just let her write this stuff

[k7tt1]

Sometimes I sit down to think about the true ramifications of how / what the Fizz Bots are to Fizzarolli,

Imagine robotic clones ( sexual, at that ) being made of you and they are not only modeled after you in physical appearance, but have a likeness to your personality, mannerisms and general demeanor. Imagine they say the things you would, possibly act in the same way you would.

What's worse, is that they're made in your likeness in real time; their production / manufacturing ages along with you,

Imagine you SEE these things being assaulted, used & abused in public; these clones take it all with a smile. Soulless, mindless... But as if that's not enough, then realizing that they may just have sentience. Or at least, they give off the impression they do. And on top of ALL that... they have chunks of your memories, your past; they're you, but at the same time, they aren't,

What do you do with that information? How do you treat them ( yourself? )? What's the end game?

[bookwyrminspiration]

Quil did you change your pfp and background?

I did! Only marginally, and it's not set in stone, but I wasn't feeling the old background in particular anymore. Not really feeling this one either, but eh!

[kaelidascope]

love the use of colors in your art it looks so eatable do you have any tips for how to get such vibrant, smooth colors like yours?

Oh yeah for sure! And thank you!! <3

It depends on what program you use, but for me I use a combination of SAI and Photoshop. On SAI, they have these sliders here to help toggle your saturation and value intensity

If your program has something like this, this is gonna be your best friend when toggling your saturation. If the S slider is all the way to the right, it's probably too bright. If the V slider is near black, it's probably too dark. Another big help getting used to what colors pair well together is researching color palettes and themes. In my early days of getting used to color pairing, I'd hit up Pinterest and look up palettes like 'fall palettes' or 'sunset palettes' and compile a fuck ton together to use when doing practice art. (Though I am aware now Pinterest steals resources from other artists so do some research and see if there are any free color palettes available for use under correct terms <3)

Get creative! Trees and water don't always have to be green and blue! Make them bitches purple or pink. Play around with it and see what works! Prime example;

Those trees are PURPLE FJKNGFJGNFKJ and that bark back there technically is some variant of pink if you color pick it. And the trees are like, gold LOL But it looks good when you back out of it

Another fun tip is doing color palette challenges. Pick a palette and only use the color swatches available. For example;

This was maybe five or six different colors from 1 palette. Part of the challenge is picking colors from your swatches that would closely make it look like whatever the original base color is, so that when you zoom back and look at the finished product, it still looks like them. But now there's *flavor* lol

Never use green or black as a shading color. Trust me just. don't. Purple and orange are good colors to start with, just set that bitch to multiple and lighten the opacity, it'll give it a warm hue (that doesn't mean you cant ever use green or black, but when starting out just try to avoid it JNGFKGFNJKG)

Another palette challenge example obviously is this one;

Obviously Yang is not orange LMAO nor is Blake purple. BUT you can tell they're still them with the correct tone settings, just stylized now. This was all maybe 4 colors at most. I used Yang's skin tone as Blake's eyes and vice versa!

Just takes practice <3 Lots of trial and error and repetitive motion, eventually you'll get a knack for it!

[cinnabeat]

rememebred everyones kh3 outfits and now im annoyed again

[newvegascowboy]

I think because Red's return to the Mojave has a common theme of inversion from the person they were before, they should have a white horse. Also because the Pale Rider is used as a metaphor for death in western fiction and Red is both metaphorically and physically returning from the dead

[athena14044]

I just got done reading the most recent issue in the Evil Zur-En-Arrh Alternate Personality Batman made a murder robot because Bruce won't go far enough Arc, which was interrupted in the middle by Incomprehensible Joker Origins: Origins of the Joker Arc, and before Evil Zur-En-Arrh Batman was Gotham War: Batman says All Crime is Wrong (don't worry about the fact that he's a vigilante), and before Gotham War was Shadow War: Kill Ra's al Ghul, and before Shadow War was Fear State: Future State 2 but with Scarecrow this time, and before Fear State was Joker War: This one had Punchline or something, and before Joker War was City of Bane: uh oh Alfred is dead, and somewhere in there was The Wedding: Or Not Actually because Batman Can't Be Happy, and if we go back even farther there was the War of Jokes and Riddles: The Joker and Riddler have Beef for Some Reason and before that, you get my point.

Last week I read Detective Comics 612-621 and guess what. Every issue had a new plot. There were no wars. Batman saved people. The only issues that had an ongoing story arc were the issues where Tim Drake's mother died. And you know why that worked? Because it didn't come right after some other Life-Changing Event.

At some point Comic Book Writers all decided that they had to leave a Mark. Alfred is dead. Batman gets married. Batman has a homoerotic frenemy from his past who's the Coolest Guy Ever that sooo much page time is going to be devoted to instead of like, Robin or someone. There are Three Jokers and at least one of them, it's unclear, was trained by one of the guys who trained Batman. Everything always has to one-up itself. I'm so fucking tired of it.

I genuinely think that every Batman writer should be forced to write like twenty issues featuring the Condiment King or some equivalently stupid villain before they're allowed to touch the Joker. Either they'll give up or they'll be forced to take themselves less seriously.

[proveagain]

no bc there's Something abt which episodes he wears that hoodie in and the fact that yellow symbolizes hope and optimism and positivity hear me out

[thrilloffirstlove]

cool lil eyecatch of spinel but also who tf is calling his hair green???

[robindaydream]

OKAY I WASN'T DONE APPARENTLY there were a few things that bugged me about how they turned out so I found a palette that I liked better and made some alterations.

Been a while since I did any pixel stuff but I felt like making a little thing just for fun.

[fenkko]

cover art/print for the awesome Pat Pedraza's punk song for scara ⚡️⚡️⚡️BOW YOUR HEAD⚡️⚡️⚡️

keep an eye out for his signings if you want this scara stomping on your walls

the lyric video is really fun, make sure you check out the whole thing on his youtube and listen to the song on spotify 🕺

design notes: i looked up some punk album covers for inspiration and went for a poppy color palette to reflect the energy of the song. i love working with colors but it can be hard to control sometimes with readability because of all the competing elements haha, colors took the most time to decide. i think it looks really good as the little song icon!

for the punk elements, i did this magazine paper cut out effect for the title by changing letters to different fonts and moving them around, then drawing over to mess up the edges. i also put ripped paper where he's kicking a hole through the poster, referencing his burst

i wanted to break up the solid area at the bottom of his shoe, so i put the electro symbol for scara to step on whenever he walks. rebellion ‼️‼️‼️🦅🦅🦅🦅

[hellotailor]

armand’s costumes are such an interesting data point re: his nebulous sense of identity.

when analyzing any costume, there are always many factors to consider: the setting, the character’s personal taste and economic constraints, storytelling concerns like tone and genre, etc. with armand, we also need to remember that he’s 500 years old and violently disconnected from his human origins. everything he wears has an element of disguise, selected to blend into a new environment.

armand was enslaved as a child in 16th century delhi, and barely remembers his mortal life. unlike louis - who can return to new orleans after 80 years and reconnect with his past - armand has no home to return to. his whole backstory, even his name, is rife with traumatic subtext, leaving him with an obsessive need for structure and control. this adds an extra layer of meaning to costuming choices that initially seem like straightforward menswear. 

armand’s 1940s wardrobe is very put-together - primarily three-piece suits and coats that make him look wealthier and more formal than louis, who is purposefully dressing down. most of these outfits are tailored to bulk up armand's frame, leaning into the "maitre" persona. and like his business-casual dubai wardrobe, he always leaves his collar open. when i interviewed costume designer carol cutshall, she described this as a symbolic power move, signalling that he's an apex predator who doesn't need to protect his throat.

my personal interpretation is that while armand clearly likes to look good, he has a complicated relationship with attractiveness. he doesn't always want to draw attention. his color palette is shadowy (black, grey, brown, olive green), and he’s much less flashy than the other Théâtre vamps. however when he’s feeling confident and flirty, he becomes more of a power-dresser - for instance his hunting outfit with the big coat and sunglasses, or his habit of wearing kohl.

interestingly, most of armand's 1940s costumes set him apart from the coven. the Théâtre vampires dress like cabaret performers, embracing a lot of period-specific styles. by contrast armand is more timeless and neutral. in fact, due to the relatively minor changes in men's suits over the past 100 years, there's a lot of overlap between his wardrobe in the 1940s, '70s and 2020s:

the rest of the Théâtre squad share an unofficial uniform of boldly clashing monochrome patterns with pops of bright color. meanwhile armand has a very plain wardrobe, emphasizing the image of him as a businesslike authority figure surrounded by zany artistes. he only wears subtle stripes on a few occasions in the '40s, reflecting the recurring prison motif we see in lestat's trial suit and (most famously) the dubai penthouse bedroom:

if we ask the question, "what does this person like to wear?" there are easy answers for lestat, louis and claudia. we understand their tastes, and the motives behind them. but armand is more enigmatic. we can recognize through-lines in his wardrobe, but his "taste" is dominated by whatever role he's currently decided to embody, whether that's a parisian theater director or a real estate mogul in dubai.

the times when he appears to have the most fun with clothing are when he steals a pair of sunglasses from his human dinner (!) and when he's pretending to be rashid. in other words, when he's explicitly performing for an audience. "real armand" is still a mystery.

(i may write more about armand's dubai wardrobe later, but for now, you can find all of my iwtv costumes posts on this tag!)