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like yeah we get eternal life because jesus suffered on the cross which is cool and all but we also get cadbury mini eggs because of it. he gave his life so that we may have the most precious gift even though we weren’t worthy. and i think that’s beautiful.

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this blog is an iceberg. the things i’m NOT posting about could fill oceans

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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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You grow up and you realise A Bug’s Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods

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A skater rescuing a wild bun from a pool 

(Source)

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does your mental health depend on what happens in a kids show or are you normal

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I found photos of those Pallas Cat kittens born this year and bye I'm deceased

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just like me fr

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happy 31st birthday to quentin coldwater who is the most alive character of all time

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concept: angels but they look like stingray skeletons

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when lizzo said “self love is survival” and when hannah gadsby said “do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? it’s not humility. it’s humiliation” and when mitski said “i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation”

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Feel the succulent juice of the honeydew

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salt and pepper squid 

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