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Limbus Company paintings (Canto 3, 5, 7)

Currently going through Canto 8 and the original novel is my favorite out of them all, can’t wait to draw something for it!

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this sucks so bad I need to [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] force my son and my dead situationship’s daughter to get married so I can take over Thrushcross Grange

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THE RED GAYS I MEAN THE RED GAYZ I MEAN THE RED GLAZE I MEAN THE RED GAZE

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BODY HORROR, ARTISTIC NUDITY

Scion of Human Wholeness

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🎠⚔️

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Many thanks to those who participated in the poll, This Information Has been Massively Illuminating

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Splatoon Player Age Census

Proving (or disproving) a point

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I WILL FOLD YOU LIKE LAUNDRY

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My favoritest piece of shit ever

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can I ask how you learned to render as beautifully as you do? I've been trying to learn how to apply colors for a long while and nothing seems to stick;;

Heya Anon :)

Awh shucks! you think I render beautifully? I’m so touched💖

Rendering, painting & color theory have been a bit of a special interest of mine for a while, so i’d be more than happy to explain & give some pointers!

If there’s a specific piece of mine that made you inquire, feel free to mention it in another ask too. I love showing my thought process and workflow c:

I’ll put the rest of the ask under the cut to minimize clutter meanwhile.

I learnt to render both through self-taught methods and during my college art degree (though quite honestly, not much that I didn’t already know or learn by myself).

Rendering in digital painting/illustration is a process that compounds various areas of knowledge. The main ones that come to mind and of which i’ll talk about are the following:

* Values

* Color Theory

* Light & Shadows

* Edge Control

Having a solid grasp on these fundamentals will greatly strengthen your ability to render and understand how other artists tackle their pieces as well.

Values

I always love to start by talking to people about values. It’s something that I don’t always see beginners learn about, yet it’s one of the main things that makes or breaks an art piece.

Values allow you to control & direct the following: Composition, Contrast, Focal Point, Colors, Distance, Mood, etc.!

So what are Values? In short, they’re the range between light and dark when it comes to both neutral greys and colors.

A handy resource to understand this is the Munsell Color System:

Hue refers to the different Colors on the wheel. Chroma is the purity (strength vs weakness) of a color. Finally, Value refers to the lightness or darkness.

Different colors have different chromatic values; that is, how a pure color appears in a greyscale format.

A 100% red will always be at around 50% grey. With this knowledge, we know that we can’t get a pure bleeding red if we were to paint a light shade of white. It would be more pink than red.

Color Theory

Okay, so we know of values, now what?

Color Theory can seem intimidating, but it shouldn’t be!

Colors have a harmony, a flow. They talk to each other, and once you learn to listen to them you can start creating wonderful conversations.

The following are things I take into account when I am thinking theory:

-Color Harmonies (complementary, triadic, monochromatic combinations, etc);

-Warm & Cool Colors;

-Color Psychology (what moods can be conveyed through color?).

-Color Relativity (how a color is affected by other surrounding colors)

I think the best advice I can give when it comes to studying and applying color (once you have a general grasp of the fundamentals listed above) is to analyze art pieces that you love.

“What attracts you to it? Why do you think it works? What does it communicate in terms of colors? Are there fundamentals that the artist applies (OR breaks?) in this piece?” etc.!

Light and Shadows

So there’s values, there’s color.

Light and Shadows could be confused with Values (black and white right?), but in this case we’re actually talking about lighting!

Values are specifically related to the range between black and white AND the lightness/darkness of a color (chromatic value).

Our eyes perceive volume through contrast, lighting and shadows first and foremost.

Understanding the terminology of light and shadows will give you a fantastic set of tools to ground your drawings in reality, and give it volume regardless of whether it has cartoony proportions or not.

There is one thing I want to also mention: it is important to know about light terminology, but it’s equally important to understand how light affects different materials.

The following terms are great elements to keep in mind if you wish to accurately render different sorts of objects (it’s a non-exhaustive list by any means, but a good start)

- Types of Light (soft, hard);

- Light Decay;

- Specularity;

- Roughness;

- Translucency;

- 1-2-3 value read

This leads us to my final note…

Edge Control

This last topic is more-so a bonus, but i’ve found it really brings a painting to another level when you know how to use it. Knowing how to control your edges will help you better define 3D volumes in your pieces without needing to use lines.

We typically have three types of edges in painting: Hard edge, Soft edge, and Lost edge.

I won’t talk about the last one because I’m still researching and practicing it, but let’s look at the other two:

Hard Edges are typically used when there is a sharp change between two planes.

Soft Edges are the more gradual transition, typically on a smoother surface like a sphere or a soft slope.

Notice how different both examples feel?

Organic shapes like bodies are full of hard and soft edges because of the smoothness of skin and fat, coupled with the harder edges of bones and muscles.

Try to pay attention to this, both in real life subjects and in art pieces. You’ll be surprised to find the variety of edges there are in all sorts of objects and living forms. It takes practice and observation, but it’s definitely feasible to learn.

Resources:

GENERAL STUFF

Marco Bucci (he covers most of what I talk about here & more, huge rec!)

Arne Niklas Jansson - (I stumbled upon this one by accident, it’s old but gold)

Values:

Yuming Li (in general)

Bonekrishna/ Roberto Ribeiro Padula

Anthony Jones (his ‘painting like a sculptor’ video is one of my favs)

Marco Bucci (seriously this guy has solid videos)

Orenjikun - (his reels and video tutorials are so insightful)

Color Theory:

Slawek Fedorczuk

Justin Oaksford

Eyecager

James Gurney blog (+ his book Color & Light)

H3m0cyt3 (A fun way to harmonize color palettes)

Iniro/Eskbl (I own this pdf, it’s best used when you apply each concept in your own exercises)

Lighting Mentor (really good vid about color relativity)

Light and Shadow:

How to Render- The Fundamentals of Light, Shadow and Reflectivity [BOOK] - Scott Robertson

(I think this is the most solid resource you can have if you’re serious about studying this subject)

Color and Light - James Gurney [BOOK] (this one’s a classic)

Proko (if i’m not mistaken, he has some videos that tackle this subject)

Edge Control

Thomas Mahon (he has one or two tutorials that touch on this)

Anthony Jones (even just watching his process videos on youtube helps)

Sinix

Unfortunately it’s somewhat hard to find more resources for this section :(

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I hope this helps with your question! If anyone has other good resources feel free to link them as well :)

This is just what I can think of for now :P

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Kyurem gijinka for fun

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Cringe ass nae nae donqui

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Haven't tried them personally but I'm sure they're good

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LIMBUS COMPANY !!!!!!!!!!!

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