#old vintage comics

[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!

[vintage-tigre]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Elvira meets Vincent Price comic book cover

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[lavendermenace99]

[descendinight]

里维埃拉Riviera ll

[calomitchell]

CROCODILE TEARS w Sprout 📺

🎨Created by me🤹🏾‍♂️

[aerialworms-art]

I've been obsessed with vintage comics lately, and I wanted to try out a new colouring style, so here is a redux of Day 19 of my Spocktober/Trektober 2023, Tribbles!

Please click for quality :3

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A vintage comic style drawing of three tribbles from Star Trek, huddled together.

The one on the left has curly fur and is smaller than the other two. It is coloured blonde, and has one prominent curl right at the top of it, similar to a certain starship captain's...

The one in the middle, behind the other two, has glossy straight black fur and is taller than the other two. Its fur ends in a severe line, like Vulcan bangs.

The third tribble is about as big as the middle one, only this one has dark brown, messier, more layered fur. Its fur is swept to the left, much like Doctor McCoy's.

Wiggly lines indicate they are all purring or trilling as tribbles do, and three cartoon hearts float above them. The two tribbles on either end are spilling out slightly over the border of the drawing. The background is a light blue at the top, fading into lavender underneath them. Their shadows are purple, and the white paper of the borders is aged and yellowy. The layers of colour (cyan, yellow, magenta) are made up of tiny dots, and are offset slightly, creating chromatic aberration.

Above the drawing is written "Trektober" and "Day 19 - Tribbles" Below it is written "@aerialworms" and "Spocktober"./End ID]

[kara-zor-els]

Action Comics (1938) #643

[alkalinetrios]

olympus trip 35, on kodak gold 200

[vintage-tigre]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

This is a thing?

I'm so buying this!!

TOMB OF LIGEIA comic book cover (1965)

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Dell Four Color #0496

Pencils: ?

Inks: ?

Dell (Sept1953)

[cieric-of-chaos]

I have this headcanon that Wanda is obsessed with antiques and vintage appliances and stuff...like she loves to go antiquing, she likes to visit old people house and abandoned old building hoping to find and collect old items....She likes it even better if the item is possessed by a spirit...she tried scrolling through an online shop once to find more items and got scammed and she never did it again, I love the idea of Wanda Maximoff having a lot of weird trinkets and knick knacks (>_<)<3

[descendinight]

Off to the races - unfinished [ I have 2 commission slots open🫙]

[stone-cold-groove]

Whaaaaaat?