#old vintage

[robryebeach]

[natkhat-sa-shyam]

कल और आएंगे नग़मों की खिलती कलियाँ चुनने वाले,

मुझसे बेहतर कहने वाले तुमसे बेहतर सुनने वाले,

कल कोई मुझको याद करे, क्यूँ कोई मुझको याद करे,

मसरूफ़ ज़माना मेरे लिये, क्यूँ वक़्त अपना बरबाद करे,

मैं पल दो पल का शायर हूँ, पल दो पल मेरी कहानी है,

पल दो पल मेरी हस्ती है, पल दो पल मेरी जवानी है |

Sahir Ludhianvi

The obsession with this lyrics >> any other song

[neonlucifer]

[notasoupcompany]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)

[eroticlamb]

kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

[youre-dreaming-302]

Bandai Digirobo Tokima

Robot Watch 1998.

[possessedpasm]

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!

[abnormes]

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

[draculaswidow]

[outtawack]

[petitworld]

Iford Manor Gardens, Iford, England by Stacy Cartledge

[book-historia]

A jewel box of a book ✨ This 19th century French sales sample book contains very thin metal ornaments, made of foil over card. These would have been used like fancy sequins, and adorned everything from cards to clothes! They’re sometimes called Dresdens after the town in Germany where many were made. I know I say this a lot, but this book really floored me 🤩 Part of col. 838 in the Winterthur Library 📚

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Gene Lester at 20th Century Fox studios, 1954.

[vintage-tigre]

Anthony Bourdain, from Les Halles Cookbook

[injuries-in-dust]

Like our fleeting youth, summer is almost over.