#so have some typography!

[my-craft]

Your ticket to the hottest dance floor in town: Welcome to Elysium.

Black and white version too

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "Inventory" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

[lonelysheepling]

Some fonts I use that I like a lot

✿ Billo ✿ Pixel flag ✿ Bigup ✿ Cute stitch ✿ Hearts ✿ Kawaii ✿ Mamae Que Nos Faz ✿ MilkyWell ✿ School Script Dashed ✿ Scribble ✿ Life lessons ✿ Mastodon ✿ NEON LED light ✿ Retrolight ✿ Rough ✿ Stampwriter-Kit ✿ Stranger things ✿ Through the night ✿ zai Royal Vogue Typewriter 1929 ✿ Lemon Juice ✿ Back to Fishing ✿ Baby doll ✿ Avocado cake ✿ Collection new style ✿ Brittany Signature ✿ Doctor punk ✿ Heavy Rain ✿ Jokerman ✿ Magic Retro ✿ Retro computer ✿ RetroKing ✿ Semi-coder ✿ Surfing Capital ✿ The Owl ✿ Tomatoes ✿ Top Secret Stamp ✿ Typewriter_Condensed ✿ VCR OSD mono ✿ Virtue ✿ WRESTLEMANIA ✿

[mayordoi]

fanart inspired by the song “orbit” by circusp — VERY UNDERRATED ENGLISH VOCAL SYNTH SONG YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT

(or just check out his CMYK album i was so hooked on it over the summer and there’s some bangers in there… been wanting to make fanart based on some of those songs as well waaa)

[ethelcainlovebot]

"So, baby girl, good luck taking care of yourself"

- Sun Bleached Flies, Ethel Cain // Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Paul Antoine de la Boulaye // Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake, Hermann Stilke

[rubberbandballqueen]

when at the library today i picked up a book abt typography to pick up some more theoretical skills there and to no one's surprise it pretended that european languages were the only languages in the world which like whatever i'll still learn what principles it has to teach and then try to reverse-engineer applications to cn font design based on what i know.

despite not trusting the english-language resources available online to be as in-depth or technical as i desire, i got curious and googled "chinese typographic design" anyway n scrolling through the introduction to the first result, you can kind of tell it's not written with a chinese-speaking audience in mind, or at the very least an audience with some semblance of chinese cultural sensitivities bc its section headed by the words "navigating the simplified and traditional divide" goes on to basically say it's an Aesthetic Decision which. well. is certainly a way to pretend you're avoiding politics.

[queensaba]

eurovision 2023 poster series [3/37] ● belgium: gustaph, because of you

[dogcollarpunk]

LIKE I FEEL LIKE THIS WOULD BE REALLY FUN TO SCREEN PRINT YKNOW??

[im-tempted]

I also love when all different characters have their own font and balloon style to express their voice

And font transparency

And bolding

And text spacing

[sarahlancashire]

today in "i wanted these, so i made them": some zombies, run! catchphrases

[hanzajesthanza]

instances of dismal futuristic foresight... or perhaps commentary by the author, hem, hem...

[miwtual]

kai can you help me with text gradient maps like in this set? maybe share some of your favorite settings? i feel like i can never make them the color i want :(

https://www.tumblr.com/heroeddiemunson/708432402148737024/lgbtqcreators-event-09-dynamics-love

hiiii miles yes of course!!

i went and double checked what settings i used in that set specifically, and i used the color setting, which is honestly my favorite setting to use for my typography like that. i also like using hard light, vivid light, multiply, and (especially if im using a darker color) screen. playing around with these different modes usually helps me choose one i think looks best! it also helps to make the text ur using to be fairly large so that you can see the colors too, at least in my experience.

i also like to take the color i want the text to be and make it brighter so the blending mode doesn't mess with the color of the text too much. for example, in that set you linked, the yellow i used for the "sun" text is a little closer to the default hex code that things like photopea and photoshop use (just a little more to the orange side of the color wheel). once i used the "color" setting, it darkened that color down and made it match with the set <3

there is also this tutorial by @anya-chalotra that i have used as my sort of basis for this type of typography (and godbless ava because she made this whole type of typography make sense to my tiny pea brain). two other tutorials i can think of are this one by @usermeggy and this one by @hiphiphelly :)

[mel-addams]

HEY there's new folks here since I last rambled about Rebelle, and they've got a HUGE sale going on for the preorder of the next version, SO

TL;DR: amazing traditional-paint-emulating drawing program on huge preorder discount, $30 for Pro version GO GET YOU YOURS

I've been using the digital art program Rebelle for a bit over a year, and it is SO GOOD at emulating the feel of working with traditional paints, pencils, and pastels! It's got thick (or thin) impasto texture for oils/acrylics, water physics (!!) for watercolors, and can actually use the texture of your canvas to affect both wet and dry media brushes. It feels SO MUCH better than hooking a texture into a brush and working on a canvas that just...doesn't match it, or applying a texture afterward. BUT ALSO they're gonna be updating it soon, and adding not just standard digital niceties, but also METALLIC. PAINTS. Plus more texture stuff you can control, and even better texture reactivity, but METALLIC! PAINTS!! USING THE BUILT-IN LIGHTING AND TEXTURE SHENANIGANS, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO MESS AROUND WITH WRANGLING/OUTSOURCING EFFECTS YOURSELF

And the pre-order price from now until November 30th is ONLY $30 for the Pro version (which I absolutely recommend!), when the price is usually $150 (!!). The Pro preorder price will increase to $50 from December 1st to the 13th, then full price when it releases on December 14th. And they don't do subscription! Just free updates (typically good and/or requested features, as well as bugfixes), in between full upgrades like this that have been HUGELY discounted on release.

You can check out further info on Version 7's upgrade features, as well as the link to buy it, via the link at the top of the post. BUT if you wanna test out basic watercolor simulation, and/or test the trial version of Rebelle 6 (I think) to see if you like how it feels? You can check out this link: https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/try/

(Also they often do this sort of thing with the free bonus papers for spreading the word, as mentioned at the beginning of the Version 7 info link. I think it's happened...at least each time they've done a version upgrade, maybe once or twice in between? And it's been a different set of papers each time. But I already did my shared-post earlier. This post is genuinely just 'cause I think stuff like the feel of brushes reacting to visible texture and water physics (which you can pause!) are SO NICE, and the preorder price is bonkers-cheap. I still need side stuff like Affinity for like...fonts, but Rebelle is my current favorite for actual drawing and painting.)

PERSONAL EXAMPLE TIME

Playing around with watercolor drips, because you can control the "tilt" of the canvas (via either a tablet's features if it can, or a disk in the UI if not): Bakuratober Ghost prompt

Using canvas texture to get a RAD cracked-paint look on a dark canvas (I used the Straw canvas from the "Mulberry Coconut & Straw" purchasable paper set): Bakuratober Vampire prompt

Taking advantage of thick acrylic texture (plus watercolor which flowed into the brush streaks for emphasis), to simulate both muscle and sand texture (body horror warning): Bakuratober bonus prompt (Nightmare)

Combining a mildly textured pencil with a subtly textured canvas to emulate how I use physical colored pencils (plus layer effects for glowy ghosties): Bakuratober Dancer prompt

Combining wet canvas and watercolors to let the pigment feather out to create a "blurry" foreground effect (plus setting lineart as a masking fluid layer to keep colors contained): Disco (Elysium) Harmony

[marvelous-tunes]

I haven’t been on in a while but I see tumblr changed again lol

[jakeperalta]

recently I've been trying to reprogram my brain into viewing gifmaking as something I just dip into then put down again, instead of feeling like once I start a gifset I've put a clock on myself to finish it, and I have to say it's made it all a more enjoyable experience. like instead of "I am going to make this edit and should be as productive as possible" I'm trying to think "I am going to spend a couple of hours in photoshop and see what progress I can make on this idea"

[loregoddess]

best part of drawing fantasy map: you will have a cool fantasy map for your fun fantasy project

worst part: labels