#recommendations 90s

[sadexecutivelove]

Layla, Buffalo '66 (1998)

[0r4an3-s0d4]

homesick

[wait-this-isnt-itunes]

one day - a playlist

Features: Love And Affection - Joan Armatrading // Temptation - New Order // I Know - Fiona Apple // These Days - Nico // Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap // Storms - Fleetwood Mac // Here Comes Your Man - Pixies // The Promise - Tracy Chapman // Thinking About You - Radiohead // Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley // + more

[youre-dreaming-302]

Drowned God 1996

[swashbucklery]

Incredible 1990s Tanthamore comission from @somewillwin, inspired by the meet you where the spirit meets the bones universe. 💕

[bionic-jaden]

I don't know who they are but this image just screams 90s Hellcheer

[batwynn]

Something something Werewolf and Mermaid Ed and Stede. (Dark and fluffy versions)

[kala-mies]

Well, I let little things happen to me and then I think they are tremendous

[mykpoppers]

NCT 127: CHERRY BOMB (2017) Jaehyun via 170929 창원 KWF NCT127 'Cherry bomb' 재현 FOCUS

[egophiliac]

Hello! Sorry to bother but do you have any digital art tips? I’m quite new to it and any tips, tricks or advice would be helpful! Your coloring style is very beautiful and I love it a lot!

thank you! 💚💚💚 sorry this is a bit late, hopefully there's still something helpful in it!

(also, it got pretty long, sorry!)

I think the biggest thing is to just take things slow -- digital art feels different than drawing traditionally, and it's SUPER easy to get overwhelmed by the billions of cool features that the digital world offers. (I say, as someone who spends a lot of time downloading cool brushes and textures...and then never using them ever.) there is a ton of really cool stuff you can do digitally, but because there's so much, I think it's really important to take time to figure out what is and isn't working for you. spend some time doodling without any intent to do a finished piece, figure out how you like to hold (or not hold) your tablet, what keyboard shortcuts you end up using a lot (and therefore might want to map to your pen/tablet buttons for quicker use)...that kind of thing!

everyone's workflow and preferred program and style are different, so it's hard to give hard-and-fast general advice. but the things that I think of as the essentials for learning digital art programs, and what I think of as a good order to focus on learning them in (although YMMV, especially depending on what kind of art you're doing):

brush customization (e.g. flow, opacity, softness)

layers and layer masks

selections and transformations (e.g. scale, rotate, flip horizontal/vertical, skew) (skew is underrated and I will die on that hill)

blending modes (e.g. multiply, screen)

adjustments/adjustment layers (e.g. hue/saturation, curves)

and I think most stuff after that is gravy! often very good gravy though! but yeah, as overall advice I recommend just taking things one little bit at a time, spending some time just drawing and messing around with each feature and what you can do with it. whether or not you end up incorporating any of it into your workflow, it's always good to try things out and just see how they feel! :D

and just so there is at least a little more concrete helpfulness in here, here's a few more specific things that I think are super important to keep in mind!

use! your! tablet/pen buttons! I mentioned this earlier, but they are extremely useful for keyboard shortcuts that you use often! most programs will also let you create new shortcuts for other things -- personally, I use the magic wand tool to fill in big color blocks a lot, so I made shortcuts for 'expand selection' and 'fill' and then mapped them to my tablet buttons.

flop your work horizontally often! when you're working on something, you get used to the way it looks, so seeing it mirrored is a quick way to see it with fresh eyes! in my experience, it often feels like this:

(a common thing is to find that everything is sort of 'leaning' too much one way, which is where skew really comes in handy!) (seriously, I love skew, it is my savior)

if you're working with color, keep a hue/saturation adjustment layer (or a layer filled with black or white and set to Color) on top and toggle it on occasionally to check your values! a lot of people who know a lot more about color than me (and are better at putting it into words) have written about why values are so important, so all I'll say is that the rule of thumb is that your image should still be readable in greyscale:

there are some exceptions and grey areas (do ho ho), but it's a good general rule to keep in mind! (some programs also have a colorblind mode, so you can check to see how your work will look to someone with colorblindness!)

and finally, here's some digital art programs I recommend, if you're still looking for a good one!

free: krita, FireAlpaca

paid: ClipStudio, Procreate (iOS/iPad only)

[gracelandmp3]

hey, dont cry. three hundred sixty five mountain goats live sets on archive.org, okay?

[bebx]

Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

[allwhiterain]

Matthew Lillard as Stevo in SLC Punk! (1998)

[skelinor]

Deedlit

[99laundry]

Frank Iero in Major Label Debut, a companion zine to Sellout by Dan Ozzi

[shy-sapphic-ace]

When I said "I think I'll start listening to the Mechanisms" I was thinking "ooh cool space pirate fairy tales haha :)" but now it's more like "I am now Feeling Many Emotions and also seven songs are playing on repeat in my head and also I can't really think about anything else"