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Lost temple duo

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rkgk

i really wanna try making animatics/anims but im slowly getting more and more unmotivated (i’m not even a month jnto school,, whats going on chat 😞)

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i havent slept, once again

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Some memes I drew bc art block has restricted me to phighting characters-

Gee, I wonder if medkit is my favorite-

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made this a month ago

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FUCKING REBLOG TO CAST NOW

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

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FUCKING REBLOG TO CAST NOW

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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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there are people on here who open their tumblr every day and their dashboards are entirely reblogs of 200k note posts from 3+ years ago and screenshots from twitter. think about that. think about what that would do to someone

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noo don’t use pop psychology trigger words to describe other people’s behavior like it’s a zodiac sign you’re so sexy haha I’m serious please stop no one knows what a narcissist is anymore

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Uhm yeah so this is my brain!! Over there we have Blorbo from my Media, and ummm here weve got Unfinished Projects . You may find some Thoughts over there maybe . Oh and these here are my issues!! #myissues

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My sis used to go by "Minipig" on the internet and eventually changed it to "Megapig" as she got older, then my mother said "if you're Megapig, I should be Gigapig", then they nicknamed me "Micropig" for being the shortest, then dad joined the group chat "Pig Family" as "Papapig" and we made a channel for posting photos of the family dog titled "pictures of Little Oink"

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all those posts that are like "you and your blorbo swap lives" "draw your blorbo in your outfit" etc etc are fun and all but every time im like. bold if you to think i have a singular blorbo. its a bleebus circus up in here.

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the human mind is prone to catastrophizing when left unoccupied. And that’s why it’s important to always have a little Blorbo to rotate in your head. It acts as a protective charm of sorts to redirect your imagination away from harmful spirals

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that

thoughts with Blorbo: I haven’t considered the interactions with bleebus; I must rectify this immediately