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Trying to talk to Takemura like

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I've been playing cyberpunks

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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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I miss him

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I don't know who's idea was to give him that stupid haircut but I'll bully Gambit forever because of it

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nobody gets hellboy. a true hellboy movie has yet to be made. everybody wants him to be a brooding pop cultural antihero soooo bad but hes NOT. he is a brooding 50 year old dad who gets pissed and has to decompress by drinking a six pack in the shed with his "projects". we're talking about a guy who quotes herman melville from memory, unprompted. he's literally a classic lit nerd. there is more of roman military history fan about him than of epic punisher comic book man. grandpas love him. hes not a badass. he is someone who does badass things but hes also a total fucking dork. he may have a "yeah yeah just point me at the thing i need to beat up" attitude in the field but he 100% does all his research ahead of time. hes literally an expert. and he carries a ton of different little charms and things around with him to be prepared for any occasion. he is a NERD. a GEEK. but he got drawn with a gun a couple times so hes epic mckillman now

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Bentley Bentayga Proposal, 2015, by Italdesign. Bentley's first SUV was previewed in 2012 with the EXP 9 F Concept that was poorly received. This resulted in revisions to the car's styling that involved Italdesign (Bentley and Italdesign are both part of the Volkswagen Group). This was the Italian's styling which is close to the final design, put into production in 2016.

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mike mignola

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Hey! If you have ocs you need to hear this

Your oc is really cool and Im glad you made them :)

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Ben Stenbeck - Hellboy

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An excerpt from HELLBOY IN HELL The Three Gold Whips Story and Art by Mike Mignola Colors by Dave Stewart. Character one (an elderly looking man), "It's an Endless Parade of Horrors." Hellboy in response, "Pretty Much."

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Mike Mignola - Hellboy

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My portrait of the maestro Mike Mignola! Referenced from Drawing Monsters. 6”x8”, Winsor & Newton watercolour and ink on Fluid cold press.

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