#conditional design

[lancelotslair]

dinah voice "awww, lets get you to a hospital!"

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[canisalbus]

Hypothetically if. If they had a kiddo. A puppy. Does that hypothetical child have a design in your genius artist head anywhere

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[quailsprout]

starlight

[furfurfrou]

I've managed to beat up the train blorbos in the pasio subway extreme battles. Here's the ending cutscene that plays out for those who couldn't make it this far:

Ingo and Emmet I love you very much but I'm going to have to beat you with hammers for the nonsense you just put me through

[puppetmastery]

getting slowly but inexorably corrupted by some insidious evil probably feels good as hell

[orpheuswasmine]

“Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me.”

I COME WITH MORE A HUMAN CONDITION FANART (a background is here 😟 ive never drawn a background let alone rendered one) This piece is based on Chapter 25 !!! Actually fell in love with that chapter and while I was rendering the background after reading, I thought about making a duo drawing of Ford playing the piano, so it be a duology !!! If there’s a reference that mimics this I’d love to grab my hand on it !!! I love parallels 🙏 (this been edited bc the lighting was messed up and i forgot the other without the lighting 😿)

I hit Bill with the I Saw the TV Glow poster, because genuinely think that movie and the Last Unicorn would have torn him apart tbh 💀 I almost made the title a quote from either movie 😭

@sapphosscribe

[maiaczy]

I've been kinda slow with the requests lately coz uni work is kicking my ass rn, but since it's jojolands day I felt morally obligated to do this one

@cailaope

[zinjanthropusboisei]

The weird part was that some of our security recordings had been released. My vantage point, as I searched the Deltfall habitat and found the bodies. Views from Gurathin's and Pin-Lee's helmet cameras, when they found Mensah and what was left of me after the explosion.

(Artificial Condition)

[littlescammer]

E. Eto. Slap. Or smthn

[rorah]

I love Byleth's academy uniform a lot 🥺 (And the way i go back in a mentality of an 8 years old lil girl looking at their silver matching uniforms whispering chaotically evil: "they're canon" e___e /J )

Original image reference

[yanmunchymochi]

2P!Poland

Trying to mimic the old style, does this looks like it's from 2010-2017?

original quality and without background under the cut

[shuobox]

degrees of lewtidy but instead of getting your freak on its called degrees of radiation and you’re busy trying to survive against some evil ass monstrosity of flesh and toxic waste because Bailey thinks you’re a lazy bum who hasn’t brought back supplies in some time (robin is a few yards away trying to shove as many scraps and resources into a duffel bag as he can)

[canisalbus]

https://www.tumblr.com/bluesodatab/735439636556627968

Machete and Vasco love child?

(Source)

[ganondoodle]

still just a rough design, but i kinda like it now

tried to mix the botw style fashion with skyward swords while still keeping it practical for his job since hes a stonemason in my comic

(comic concept art)

[catcherwrites]

An improbable theory I’m quietly vibing with is that if (when?) we get Arc 3, Aaravos’ star in his chest will be completely lit up again.

Because what if his star isn’t bright because he “fell” or “was banished” or “lost his true heart when his daughter died”? What if it’s simply because he hasn’t returned to the stars in a very long time?

I think it’d be cool if maintaining a physical form is taxing for Startouch Elves (hence why they don’t visit Xadia a lot). The longer a Startouch Elf stays corporeal, the more their strength diminishes and the darker their star becomes. Normally, Aaravos would replenish his power every few years before returning to Xadia - but when Leola died he was grieving too much to care about returning to the heavens.

By the time the 100 years had passed, Aaravos’ star was completely dark. But, of course, he had no intention of leaving Xadia until he got his revenge. It’s very inconvenient, missing a sizeable chunk of your essence, but Aaravos was still powerful enough to mastermind everything throughout history.

Then he got imprisoned for a few centuries, weakening him even further than he would’ve liked (and that’s perhaps why he relied on Claudia so much in S7).

But now? He’s been sent back to the heavens for the first time in a millennia or so. He’ll replenish his missing power, and once his stars realign he’ll return to Xadia much stronger than before.

Imagine he comes back looking like he does in these pics