#and i don’t even know how to cOLOR IT

[ash-and-starlight]

making a comic moodboard

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[gengwasted]

Aventurine just got comfortable and the doctor decides to throw a bomb at him??? This is rude and unacceptable. He loves it he's just... Confused.

Merventurine from @havanillas’ AU I can’t get them out of my head aughxzfdzfxh-

[saltedbiscuiit]

Silly 15!skk comic that I sketched awhile ago and dont remember what compelled me to draw this

[ciderjacks]

infantilization

[the-phantom-peach]

as someone who wants to eat your art (positive), im wondering how you go about choosing colors in your drawings and making them go together well? or at least are there any good resources you can steer me towards?

This is a very old ask but I still want to answer this with a detailed enough description of how I color my art.

First I wanna say I already answered a similar question here that had my coloring process included in the answer, along with how I choose my highlights and shades:

But here I want to add an easy way to visualize the above using the common RGB color spectrum:

Of course colors don’t have to be that vivid but it’s a matter of balancing the vividness of the base and the shade — something that probably comes with practice (don’t know, not entirely an expert at it lol)

My rendering process is a bit more complicated to explain so I’ll just add a short vid under the cut, but I tend to follow these rules like it’s second nature. Of course this is just how I choose colors and you can apply these same rules to a completely different color scheme. I’d say choosing colors is definitely part of what makes an art style unique

[mossy-paws]

PHIGHTING! Mermaid au chibis

What silly little guys,,, decided to design scythe since yeah!

She’s based off of a olive head sea snake! And the rest y'all hopefully know by now :3

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Timed myself for some painted sketches for some research i’m doing, each one of these took about an hour. (Actually….a little bit more since I fussed around with them a LOT after they were “done.” I’m working on curbing that habit T_T)

I have a bunch of screenshots I took of these honor mode Tavs I made, so i just used them as reference 😅

[cenomatic]

finally drawing my reagent.. my best girl… Coyle is there as well

[reddbl]

Today is international kissing day!

[oobbbear]

Whenever I set a very high expectation for a project I will guarantee intimidate myself out of it

But if I set the bar in hell I can finish it very quickly and turns out great 90% of the time

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

couple of mello + near doodles

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[canecone]

Leowook design sketch

[paw-padss]

as the sweltering morning eventually turned into a stifling twilight, Albedo found himself tiredly hunched over, the soft pillowy lumps of bedding beneath his legs as his long blonde hair cascaded beyond his shoulders. his sigh of exhaustion turned into a smile of fondness; the feeling of the gentle tug of your hands on his scalp ignited a warm feeling within him. the silent hum of the fan and the steadiness of your breathing almost put him to sleep.

the tugging stops with the moon high in the sky. he looks back at you, toying with the new braid in his hair. he falls back onto the bed, looking up at you, his normally stoic face replaced with a playful smile, inviting you to lay down next to him. with a smile, you fall down beside him, his flyaways gently flowing in the fans breeze. you reach out to tame them, but his hand reaches your head first. pulling you closer to him before leaving a sweet kiss on your lips. he softly mutters the words good night against your neck before planting a kiss there too. he turns over, and you wrap your arms around his waist, laying your head against the braid running down his back.

sweat begins to form beads on your forehead from the close contact, but the heat is hard to notice when your cool-headed lover is wrapped in your arms.

a/n: sorry if some things don’t make grammatical sense + the punctuation i wrote this bc i too am dying in the heated nights ^^;