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Meet GirlGroupNetwork: ↳ favorite dark concepts: RED VELVET - PEEKABOO

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I got a Moomin nendoroid. I also got left over yugioh stuff from the Kaiba one and

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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Things worn down by people.

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various fionna drawings, some old, some new. I just like drawing her!

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weird cake idea drawings from when I was working on the season 1 finale. she's buff....

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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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lets overthrow mama

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Lorenzo!

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the knight's tour

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