#i changed my fursona

[girlboyburger]

alright tumblr, here's your homegrown cowgirl C:{

what do you think of her?

[troutpaws]

rainbow brite puppy inspired dog!! yay!! 🌈⭐️

[izzypaw]

giys im,

[twistcmyk]

[jururenu]

day 5: growth / habits

he likes rain now

happy birthday my sweet baby

[scarfofsilver]

A WOLF HAS MOVED INTO LEGO CITY

[shapeshifter-shenanigans]

[minty-furry-bee]

🍭🦈 I haven't drawn Mizu in SUCH a long time~! But a bit ago, an anon inspired me with these simple but kind words, and for that I thank them so much :)

[bittybatarts]

been in a ref mood. I guess I can have a humanoid sona too, sometimes. They're not just human though, that'd be boring.

[fjordline]

ok i've been thinking about how to answer The Color Asks for so long now. Once I start talking about colors I never stop, it seems. This is just me attempting to explain my personal thought process and not any universal rules or anything like that.

None of this is going to look very realistic at all. You need to exaggerate a little. That being said, having fundamental knowledge on how shadows and ligh tsources work is very useful. Know the rules before breaking them and all that.

Boiled down to its basics, what I think of is: if a lightsource is cold toned, make the highlight bright blue. if a light source is warm, make the highlight bright orange. Then contrast the light with a complementary shadow color that does not compete for dominance with the light. Or alternatively make the light source more neutral with a complimentary tone for the shaded areas and then add a highly saturated color in the deepest shadows. Having both a highly saturated light source and a shadow color will compete with each other, instead choose one to be the dominant and one to be the um. submissive i suppose.

Just using a random doodle from my sketchbook for the purpose of throwing some color on:

^^^ Here the midtones and the areas in the shade are predominantly of a low saturated cool blueish tone, while the highlight is stark and warm with orange and red light bouncing off. The orange and red hues you often see in skin that is lit by a strong light is called subsurface scattering (sss), one of the most important concepts in art IMO. It livens things up so much.

^^^Opposite from image 1, here the shaded area is a saturated golden color while the light source is a dull blue with hints of more vivid blue throughout. the blue balances the strong yellows and browns. Since the shaded area is bigger than the highlighted area, the subject matter could look quite monochromatic without the blue hints.

^^^Get wild with it. Lets say your highlight is blue toned: instead of just using a blue, introduce purple, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, cyan, etc around where the light is hitting. Add several light sources in different colors, make it not make sense, get crazy.

Though what is important above all else is that the image reads clearly. Unless you're doing abstract art then you'd probably want the audience to understand what they're looking at. That's where values come in, probably the number one cause of confusing pieces of art. If you can turn the painting black and white and still see the subject matter clearly then the values are good.

I find that i love using colors that most people find garish, especially when they're on their own, for small highlights and points of interest. When paired with other more neutral colors, a bright orange or a chartreuse etc can really brighten up a painting. And colors are never what they seem, the human eye will interpret colors differently depending on what color they are next to. Make full use of this.

Hope this long ass post helps anyone who is struggling with color, I know I used to struggle severely myself xoxo

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

Otto

[girlboyburger]

milo trying out a new look! wearing its past patterns like an old sweater pulled out for the season

[megueggu]

first time since forever i sat and drew for a longer than like... 10 minutes or so. did some comm work and decided to sketch some Chongi, to feel things out.

[petzdogz2speedrun]

new years pic :33333 + bonus alt version

[howlfolk4]

Mashup plays nice :)

[matoitech]

self portrait warmups from earlier attempting to incorporate my soonish hair change, doggy style. what. my fursona just looks weird to me without a hat LOL