#wanted to have some fun digitally coloring

[uftopia]

hi !! if you'd be up for a tutorial, how do you make your colours so vibrant? how do you choose them on the colour wheel?

honest to god i really want to explain how it works in my head but im not sure. might be easier to explain if you have more specific questions.

but i will try with some things i can remember atm:

i try to stay in this area when i want really colorful pieces. but be careful, because you can accidentally make really mono-toned (?) pieces and the colors will look muddled, make sure to have a good amount of darks and lights

also mix colors. like for gradients, instead of going from blue to green, in the middle put a little bit of teal. digital apps are not good at pleasing gradients nor mixing. manually apply these things

1->2

when i color pick something from a photo, and it ends up grayer than i expect or want, i will shift the color to the right. keep it on the same level it’s at, but now there’s slightly more color.

for highlights, like really bright ones, i find that white never looks as good as you’d think- i use really like purples/yellows/pinks for this. ex:

if you can see it lol

also shifting blacks and greys and whites to really close but colored shades helps. the gray and black i used for gnfs shirt if i remember is more blue and purple, white can become blue/green/pink (my favs)

for skin i always start with a gradient. i make the hands, feet, forehead/cheeks more warm toned and neck, arms, legs more cool toned.

also colorful lineart is very fun. don’t shy away from it

hope this helps slightly

[puddludd0]

The craft

[wuntrum]

2025 horror pin up calendar!!

print version | digital (/print it yourself) version

a labor of love, truly <3 prepare for the new year with 12 suggestive (and silly) horror characters :) featuring characters from: american psycho, bride of re-animator, the evil dead, hannibal, jason x, frankenhooker, alien, an american werewolf in london, jennifer's body, saw, the thing, and scream! to see the full specs of the calendar, check out the pages above!

[mazken]

brush test slash rendering practice with ayem

[spasikonik]

me if making fanarts of fictional bands was a job

[pitchthepeach]

Mav

[cyellolemon]

what if they were both men and emo...

[drpicklesart]

doodles of my best friend deck plecksetter or whatever

[unimaginativebepisenjoyer99]

the satrinyavas

[turtledork02]

Instead of actually drawing more ref sheets for this goddamn AU I caved and drew RaphMona and their child (pet) Rose.

click for better quality!

[terrified-spider]

"...Then he began promising me things, not in words but by doing them." He was interrupted by a word from the Professor, "How?" "By making them happen. Just as he used to send in the flies when the sun was shining. Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings. And big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs." Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the 'Death's-head Moth'?"

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

[maemil]

Bonus Day - Alternate Universe

Technically following starwarssapphicweek's day 7 prompt, I just really wanted to do some star wars mermaids for MerMay, even if sapphic week is over (and it's never the wrong time to post barrissoka)

[ID: A pencil drawing of Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee as mermaids holding hands. Ahsoka's tail is striped like her lekku, and she has fins in the same shape as the markings on her cheeks. Her lekku are floating in the water. Barriss' tail has lines all down it like her shirt does and her fins are black diamonds, like her tattoos. She wears a swimming hijab patterned like her normal hood.]

[skitskatdacat63]

Some coloring practice w my ocs :)

Though I must say, I always really just like the lineart the way it is, I guess they're perfect just the way they are

[clockworkslick]

Alison, Tech-Witch

[arcadian-vampire]

Nervous giggles

Even more nervous giggles

There are so many professional paintings here, so many technically advanced, highly impressive works, and I'm just like [slaps some crayons down] y- yeehaw,,

I'm keeping the Escape Motions site Exciting. keeping it Interesting and Ridiculously Colorful

[krawdad]

Universal rapidograph ink seems to be working in the brush pen plenty good. There are subtle differences but for how much money it saves I'm willing to call it identical enough.

Mostly getting the refill ink was about giving myself the freedom to just use up however much ink I needed in order to get better at using the brush. Make any marks at all. But I'm finding myself engaging more with trying out different traditional media than I have been with trying out different digital brush settings, for example.