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leisurely walk

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crystalline morpho

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hihi!! your art is so so incredibly gorgeous. it's the kind i'd expect to find on a tarot deck or something!! your coloring and composition are just so lovely i had to tell you !

Awwww, thank you so much! 🥺TTTT

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your one of my favorite artists and i wanted to know if you have any tips for anyone who wants to makes drawings with colors like yours. the backgrounds are beautiful and i wish i could play with colors like that

AAAA Thank you so much Ruby 😭🫶🏻 it really means a lot.

Lots of typing below so I'll add a keep reading tab!

I did go in depth in a previous ask, where I also linked back to yet ANOTHER ask, lol. I definitely encourage you to give them a read if you'd like! :)

But of course I can definitely add some more tidbits!

Besides playing around with clip studio's built in features (tone curve, approximate color, gradient map, etc.) Taking inspiration from real life is one of my favorite things to do. ^^

In fact it's possibly one of the best places you can get color reference from, because how you interpret it is entirely up to you!

For example with the celestial crystalfly piece, I saw these flowers near a supermarket, and a really lovely color scheme near the end of a sunset. (Besides the fact that I was daydreaming about painting Lumine if she collected all of the elements FHAHDGSHA) I didn't actually color drop for this piece, because I wanted to treat it like a study, and I was painting the flowers from memory because I didn't have a picture of it them the time.  I stylized it in the end but was very pleased w the result. ^^

And with this character design, I got color inspiration from a butterfly in a photography book that was on sale in Indigo.

So generally my colors don't always come from nowhere!

Besides that for all pieces, I personally also like to plan colors during the sketch phase!

If you're like me and you used to follow the traditional sketch > lineart > color workflow, but once you got to the coloring part you'd get stuck, try it! Once you have a pose and character in mind, add some lighter base colors. As you work on rendering the piece, build up your base colors with darker colors (or lighter colors for things like accents and highlights)

It's probably more suited to painterly styles, but I think you could definitely find a way to make it work if you prefer clean lineart. 

I hope this helps give you some jumping off points to think about!

Color is a bit of a hard area to give concrete guidance on because it almost goes hand in hand with style. You get more comfortable with it and find what works the more you practice.

And that's coming from someone who used to color/draw like this 8 years ago,,,,,

so trust me. 😭

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ice waltz

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something unattainable

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INPRNT re-opening!

heyo friends! I closed my INPRNT for a while but I've decided to re-open this month :)

only a few pieces are up for now because I have to re-import files manually (they only allow 300 dpi now instead of 350 HHHHHHHH) If there's any piece in particular you'd like added feel free to lmk in the tumblr tags or comments and I'll put it in when I can!

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completely forgot to add the link!! Sorry about that

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/coquito/

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doodle

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ice and stardust

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you have such gorgeous art i love the way you color things!!!!!

Thank you so much!! <3

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LET'S GOOO💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

why is tumblr dashboard twitter-fied now

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while there is still time

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Hey! I love your art so much, do you mind if I post some art inspired by your art style? I'll credit you ofc(and tag you if you want)

Sure! :O You can def tag me if you'd like, thanks for asking permission first!

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a rose kissed by the sea

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remember this ask? ;))

hello! do you happen to have a shop? your art is GORGEOUS and i would absolutely LOVE to buy prints, that way i can stare at it forever!! also, is it ok to use your art as a computer background? thanks!

AAAAAAAAA Tysm!! I literally just archived my prints from INPRNT yesterday because they've been a little weird about paying their artists in recent months. So I'm not selling prints at the moment😭😭

Can I use this ask to shamelessly advertise though???? I joined a zine, and they opened pre-orders 2 weeks ago!

*hint hint* I did help with merch, but it's locked behind stretch goals, so I can't show it. But besides that, there are a lot of other amazing merch, art, and excerpts so please do check it out! 👀

As for using my art for a computer background or phone background, its totally okay! Have a nice day <3

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