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"you don't like mpreg?" i don't even like fpreg

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THREE DAYS!!!

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i gotta remember this

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hermeto pascoal, iporanga, 1985

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That was the low battery notification

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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Tumblr what ... what is this advertising?

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images from the NYC 10th annual dyke march, 2002, by samantha feder. taken from technodyke.com

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He's like an anime girl to me

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nah because why do edwardian motor dusters go so hard. the VEIL??

THE GOGGLES

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Blue skies ~

Some of my favorite 30 min painting ever from my trip in the alps in the Summer. I really miss the sun of summer... Winter is the worst!

Also good timing to remind you that I'm on blue sky now if you want to. ;D My username is lilblueorchid just like here, and I'm starting to post quite frequently there!

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Emilia Cantor

'The Luminous Cattle (El Ganado Luminoso)'

Oil, 51”x 51"