#Art Thoughts

[claypigeonpottery]

my grandma was a quilter and she said that there were a couple rules about making art which sounded …suspicious lol

but these were her rules:

whenever you can, take a class.

whenever you can, make art with other people. not collaborating necessarily, just spending time together making art

and that was it.

she was a very practiced and talented quilter, and she took classes and went to quilt groups often

she taught both me and my mom to sew (despite her being my paternal grandma) and my mom is also a talented quilter

I can’t count the amount of times I’ve learned something new when sharing the studio with someone (plus it’s a good way to spend time with friends)

[troythecatfish]

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

Goobleck w a gun !! ^_^ what was originally supposed 2 be a doodle that then got a tiny bit outta hand :3

very important extras vvv

goobleck mirror dimension

goobleck mirror dimension 2

goobleck sideways

goobleck pequeño

goobleck in pd

goobleck is everywhere

[monarchetype]

art can be "good" in plenty of ways but I find my favorite art (in longer formats) to be party terrible and partly amazing. half renaissance painting and half shitpost. switching between masterfully executing all the conventions of the genre/medium and or breaking all the rules. 50% the cringiest thing youve seen in your life and 50% something you want to show to every person on the planet. constantly swinging betwern "how does a person come up with this" (in awe) and "how does a person come up with this" (derogatory). embodying humanity's duality of the angel and the animal. both shit and the shit. you know?

[sonyshock]

This is not even technically a serious tutorial, but I've been rediscovering my way of coloring lately and I had nowhere to write these notes which I'm afraid to forget. And what better way than publically

Basic colors: Monochrome layer of the 'main' color. Brush is in multiply mode to allow it to lose saturation and luminosity. Focus on having the interest areas (usually the face+whatever is in front of it or occupies a large space} more or less clearly set. In this picture there's not much worry for shadows. If shading is very important to the piece, keep it in mind but don't define them yet. We are mostly looking for general blocking.

Underpaint: A flat layer under the basic colors. Generally neutral gray, but it can be other kind of unsaturated color. Evens the colors and enriches the palette.

The use of neutral colors is due to the special properties of grey to appear the complementary color of any color is is next to while not expanding the color palette.

Base color lights: Enhance the lights with a Screen layer, using colors picked from the picture so far. ALSO: If there's going to be complementary colors, paint those areas white or very light so you can apply them later without muddiness. This might be more or less necessary depending on the colors relation to each other and the next step

In this example, Rei's eyes are not completely white because the unsaturated blues will work well with pink/salmon

Overlay layer: Add secondary colors with Overlay. These are the secondary colors of the image. They are always going to be a different hue.

If the secondary colors are harmonious, it should be easy to blend them. Focus on blocking and contrast the most, and mind saturation, saving it for points of interest or viceversa.

If the hue is complementary or very far in the color wheel, it's important that we left unsaturated or light areas saved for that in the past steps, because otherwise Overlay might not blend well and easily result in muddy or extremely dark saturated colors (which I personally don't like)

Between the grey underpaint, the base colors and secondary colors, chances are you have 90% of the color palette covered. From now on we are going to eye drop from the layer and only move through the color wheel when needed.

I think it'd be no problem to repeat this step if going for a triad palette, but be careful with the ratios and keep the luminsity and saturation steps in mind.

Deepen colors: Using multiply layers, add colors that feel necessary. Color pick them from the image itself, and only vary when necessary.

This is a good step to change the colors of the line art by changing the hue.

Using the same method, use Screen layer mode to add highlights.

Remember there's no need, nor it is recommended, that you colorpick from the same hue to paint over. Highlights will look more rich if they're in a different temperature, and shadows will do the same if they're in a different temperature, although you should use very light colors to avoid ugly blending.

I might update this post later if more epiphanies come to me

[willfreakbyers]

I want to make more horror/gory art

[kiwi-koala]

I was looking at some of my old sketches in procreate and found this. I figured I’d upload it for fun it was just something quick I did.

[lele5429]

Art Process

I’m doing digital art like I do traditional art. Like. One tool, few layers. No effects. (Also no colors and minimal shading, as I’m not very confident in those). As an amateur, I actually have very little knowledge of how coloring and color mixing works in Procreate. I have also realized that I’m falling into my comfort zone. So. I hope to do something new while I still have time this summer.

Still . I’ve been making 10x more doodles, sketches, and finished artworks since getting into LU. Fandom gives me motivations to keep drawing!

DTIYS for @isasan347

[artofmaquenda]

Every now and then, I still get hit with that feeling that my art is total shit. I used to deal with it almost weekly and feel completely overcome by it, but I've gotten better at recognizing it for what it is, just my own brain attacking me. It still stings, and it's hard not to let it get to me, but I’m learning not to take those thoughts so personally. Besides, It’s okay to suck sometimes and not take it all too seriously. I know it's an old pattern of mine, tearing myself down before anyone else can, but realizing that I do have some power over these feelings is liberating. I don't have to stay stuck in that mindset, or at least as long as I did before. :)

[littlecrow04]

Sometimes when I’m drawing and something doesn’t look right I just sit there for a sec and think “I forgot how to draw basic human anatomy” so then I retry for a million hours until it looks decent enough to me lmao

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I also still don’t know how to to do clothing folds so I just kinda draw lines where I think they fit

[just-a-moonflower]

The details in Mucha's art are phenomenal.

I recently bought a deck of cards with his artwork.

[marisashorror]

Thinkin about how in the 90s & 2000s artificially colored & almost plastic foods were in. Then in the 2010s "clean & pure" foods with "real" ingredients became popular & artificial stuff was the devil. I wonder if after the AI art boom we'll see something like this, but for art?

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

Peedee on ice ^_^ and a double date !!!

"Rhombuses are significant if you try hard enough" - Ashton tryna convince me to add a rhombus choker to Ashe ^_^

[iiinkos]

someone remind me to let loose with my art more often god it’s so much better when i do

[willfreakbyers]

I got bored of the will byers animation I was making, so im ATTEMPTING to do the army dreamers animation trend that died like 8 months ago heh