#cool toned colours

[axoqiii]

toya doodle 😢

[coldarena]

uniform studies + kit lists

[velkyr]

I got this comm back from @britishmuffin today and aaaaaaa I cannot get over it those are my little guys. the permanent residents of my mental microwave. both being Held Tenderly by each other, like they deserve 😭💜🖤

(edit: idk if anyone will see this original post anymore but please do not refer to these two as women! they're both non-binary; transmasc and genderfluid respectively. tyvm <3)

[yasmeensh]

I have decided to stop meddling with this piece. It has to be done at some point, and here it is! I'm happy with how it turned out 😁 My last chimpanzee painting was two years ago, so it's time I make another one! Painted in acrylics and touched up with CSP. Shared some process shots too, just below :)

it was very messy.... and the lighting made a HUGE difference in the end!

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Been putting some time into Doily 14 (Yarn | Pattern) since it's easy enough knitting to do while reading and man. Every row takes a year.

Probably because every row is over 500 stitches at this point. Ouch. And I still have almost 20 more rows to go. I'm averaging something like 2 rows a day (while swapping in other projects when I get bored). Keeping my energy by admiring the pretty gradient every chance I get.

[sysig]

Family ♥ (Patreon)

[tarotphil]

devastating to admit as a phillie but dan absolutely killed this one. it’s glittery!!!! what’s a girl to do!!!

[signed-sapphire]

Idk I've been demotivated to do Wish stuff lately so take some loose redraws

@gracebethartacc @chillwildwave @spectator-zee @your-ne1ghbor

[marysoulpainter]

fuck it, my own Hoenn protag redesigns!!

i actually like most of ORAS redesigns (esp the gym leaders), buuut I really don't like the protagonists and the evil teams (maxie what did they do to you). also I love Emerald more so i guess you can say these designs would be for an ORAS-like Emerald remake lol

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a coloured and shaded digital sketch of Luz and Lilith from the owl house. They're depicted with their designs from For the Future. Luz is tackle-hugging Lilith, ugly crying and exclaiming "I missed you so much". Lilith braces for the hug and smiles with tears also in her eyes. The background is a pale yellow colour and previous versions of the sketch can be seen at low opacity behind the full drawing. End ID]

When you see your cool aunt (actually a loser but you love her) for the first time in months and she has a badass apocalypse makeover but still somehow looks like a librarian

[feelingpure]

Fellow Travelers | The Orange Elephant in the Room

Alright, let's talk about it.

For those who've watched the available episodes of FT so far; I'm sure we've all noticed the citrus haze they all seem to be living in.

Especially if you've attempted to edit/GIF any portion of it. The struggle is real and I'm sure has inspired many colouring dilemmas.

And we're all asking "WHY?!".

Now, I'm writing this having not looked up anything about it. So I dunno if anyone responsible has made a formal confession.

One of my initial thoughts around it was; okay... so is this just a 1950s thing? But after watching (and rewatching) episode 2, I feel like it's part of the story in a different way; It's clearly a stylistic choice, yes (I should hope that doesn't just happen by accident). But it also seems to double as a narrative choice.

Putting the rest, with image examples, under a cut because it's kinda long.

Warm vs Cool

The conclusion I've come to is pretty simply, one that we've seen used across media in a lot of movies and shows. Warm tones used to colour scenes that are meant to literally be 'warm'; a loving environment or somewhere where the character(s) feel like they can be themselves. Cool tones used for scenes where it's quite the opposite; a cold hostile environment where the character(s) does not feel welcome. Gradients in between for all the neutral/'greyarea' spaces.

Consider

Cool/neutral outdoor bench scene (with park spies around):

Maybe it's an indoor/outdoor thing? No...

Indoors (even with the mandatory orange lamps nearby) they stay pretty neutral:

Night time/day time thing? No...

Night time vs day time in Tim's apartment:

Compare it to day time neutral alone Tim in the same room before. The difference is that he's with Hawk, out of sight of any would be naysayers.

So yeah, while I am mad about the colouring for giffing needs, I do think what they're doing is pretty neat, and the POC in the show look glorious in the warm tones.

The warm/cool motif is dialled up even more in episode 2, with the contrast of Mary's warm welcoming party and Hawk's cold af family gathering (even though they still have the orange lamps/sconces around, they add nothing to the warmth):

🥺 Ugh, Tim at Mary's party. Might be my favourite part of the episode, alongside the kissing n spooning. Anyway...

The transition of Mary from the same living room where she hosted that party, to the kitchen they were just questioned in:

That transition made me start paying more attention and go back to rewatch previous scenes just for colour themes.

Interestingly Hawk's apartment seems to live in this neutral/warmish space. It was more warm earlier in the episode, especially when they were in the bedroom the morning Tim left his glasses. But in general it's a lot less warm than Tim's apartment when compared; still their skin glows with a hint of tangerine:

Of course, not only the lighting/colouring but their outfit choices say a lot. Tim is usually in the warm browns with his dress, while Hawk pretty much sticks to black, white, grey (hints of a cool toned blues and reds in his ties). This coupled with the differences in their own living space probably reflects a lot about the character and how 'welcoming' they are to others. Idk... or I could just be thinking too much about it.

This is another really interesting transition in episode 2. As Hawk hangs up the phone in that cool toned side room, opens the door to the main room of a gay bar, the warm tones literally seem to absorb him in. Which makes sense, this is obviously a gay friendly place in San Francisco. He doesn't have to try to hide any part of himself, like he probably was still trying to do on that voicemail to Lucy just before.

Now, I could go through and screenshot a load more examples (some scenes with Lucy are interesting, and that lounge/club), but you probably get the gist, you see the pattern. If not before, on your next watch, you'll certainly see it.

This has got longer than intended; I'd be surprised if anyone got this far, I did NOT fully organise my thoughts before I started this, I just began rambling and I feel like it could've been more organised and laid out better. But if you have thoughts about the colouring, I'd really like to see those too. 🤗

[patentedsun]

my rendering style is too all over the place to do something like this usually (something I'm working on fixing tbh it's not very efficient) + I am a do everything on one layer person so it's hard to keep track of my steps. But anyways thought I'd share this :D

I realize a lot of this is step 1 circle step 2 details ndkdodsj ok next time I'll export progress pics as I go ...

[parisoonic]

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'do you have a shameful art past?'

like every 10 year old (in the early 2000s on deviantart) i used to trace manga panels and colour them in lmao (so much one piece tracing LOL) and i used a lot of 'bases' on deviantart to make ref sheets for my crappy ocs. not sure if that's 'shameful' as learning to draw is SO tough that i think everyone references/traces/colour picks as a child or young teen in order to gain the vaguest foundation of 'knowledge' that they then can build on.

Colour picking (like recently...during photo studies) was literally how I made the power of mid-tone greys 'unlock' in my head despite being told countless times 'if you desaturate a colour it'll appear grey next to its more saturated chroma' it never clicked until I did some dirty colour picking and saw the pattern emerging countless times. 'hmm maybe those dang art books are right'

[worstloki]

Thor 1 has so much banger dialogue and visuals that are that way because of the very specific context they’re in and I love that for them despite all the tilted angle shots 💯✨👍

[sysig]

Time Loops are they/them culture (Patreon)

Bonus of my little guy in ISaT style:

[jhoons]

the 'J' in Jay stands for gorgeous