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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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Resting, with @adorkastock

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Paul Bransom (1885 - 1979). Bear Head Sketches / Bear Paw and Claw Sketches. Charcoal and pastel on paper. 1952.

National Museum of Wildlife Art, x / x

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Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

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more 👏 napkin 👏 doodles 👏

Rahhhj really really quick break room sketches I abandoned

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HAPPY 16th ANNIVERSARY HOMESTUCK!

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My hands stopped wanting to hold things so this is this years art!!!! I hope i did the math right on June/Johns age!!

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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Lemord! He's got googly eyes, a lemon body, and blueberry's for feet! What's not to love?

Another napkin doodle

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Recent napkin drawin.

I love being transgender and no one can take that from me.

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back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

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O, adorkastock, have you any references with striking lighting or shadows? I would love to practice my shadows and lighting.

Mmmm not a ton since I shoot in the studio and I don't change the lights because I actually don't really know how to use a camera so changing the lights would mess up the camera 🥹 I have some orb pics that are fun but not super high res because lowlight and phone cam. And some stuff I've done with lanterns. Here's a few? Like this? I want to do more with lighting but I'm just not especially skilled in this area.

Happy accident but the old Bending Pack had some neat lighting.

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Do you have a character that's related to art or writing but in like a magical way?

Do you need a hand reference where they're holding a pencil but like magically? 🤔 ✨

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Don't worry!! I gotcha!!

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Here I go again!

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