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shadesofmauve · 2 days

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Colors!

My thumb's been fucked up by a steroid shot to the point where I can't hold a pen to draw, but the light touch of a watercolor brush is mostly okay, and I had dot cards for Daniel Smith and DaVinci paints, so I've spent the last few weeks unleashing my manic color goblin.

Friends, I've painted so many happy little rectangles. And it has been a journey.

I've found that one of the most-referenced sources for pigment lightfastness is a hard-coded website straight out of the 90s that also talks about UFOs and human evolution. (I don't know what the guy says about human evolution, because I'm afraid to find out, but it makes me very happy that a site like that still exists).

I've learned you can make lovely purples with a cool red and phthalo green, which actually MAKES SENSE, I GUESS, but is still a bit weird and awesome even though I understand the color theory.

I've painted with the Danger Colors.

(Cobalt, manganese, chromium, and cadmium. DO NOT LICK).

I've finally spelled phthalo often enough that I can remember it!

And I've fallen deeply, desperately in love, then had my heart broken.

It's name was DaVinci Phthalo Turquoise (pigment code PB16). When I painted it out it was beautiful; smoothly flowing into a perfect fade, the deepest, most inviting pool of cool, saturated perfect teal. I burst into song. A choir of angels descended to sing backup vocals. I never used to believe in love at first sight, but I was wrong.

...then it dried.

It dulled so much. It was still fine. Nothing special, but fine. Whatever. I'm over it. I am a strong, independent artist. I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.

There's still all the other colors. Colors that didn't betray me. Much.

Here, Monkey is helping model the last swatch tests, which helped me choose which cool red to buy. The phone doesn't capture all the nuance, but they also started out fairly close. (I went with column 3, DaVinci's PV19 quinacridone rose madder).

So... if you're one of those tenacious, patient people who follows my fic, and you've been wondering why I haven't posted, I suppose I really just have one thing to say:

Colors go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

#watercolor #pigments #painting #color swatches #so many colors #so satisfying to line them up in rows #colors go brrrrr #Shades makes art #?#traditional art #danger colors #mmmm cobalt

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defectiveferalfreak · 2 years

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i rediscovered @nicktoonsunite and @choraa ‘s art like wowie did they inspire me to dip my toes into NUverse??

also i cant believe Dib and Zim basically waltzed into NU:GoD, like WHATS UP B*TCHS WE GONNA HELP WHETHER U WANT IT OR NOT like can u believe that lol

#nicktoons unite #nicktoons unite globs of doom #nicktoons unite GoD #i find it ironic its called NU GoD #invader zim #dib membrane #iz zim #iz dib #ive been sitting on the doodles ideas since end of AUGUST. basically so long that i started to hate them lol #i have a lot of thoghts about nicktoons!Dib&Zim but almost no concentration to draw much of it #because helooo fandom interest change like autumn leaves #but i fell in love with possible nicktoons universe with those two assholes in it so they WILL live rent free in my head #so many details of this doodles that i want to talk about but im afraid to start rambling #so im just gonna sit and hope someone notices those little things #throwing this nicktoons!IZAU into the void so i could stop obsessivly staring at unfinished doodles. also gonna go cry over nicktoonsunite a #and choraa awesome OG4 art like those are fucking goals #and lack of fics for nicktoons adventures ;( like i wish someone was brave enough to write some cool NU advnetures <;(#danny phantom #fairly oddparents #the adventures of jimmy neutron: boy genius #spongebob squarepants #if someone asks me about this au i probably wont have much to say because its all very vague but i will most likely go feral lol #i wish i could finish my iz star wars au doodles ;( theyve been in my files since summer haha

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carpetbug · 1 month

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more Duvet brain rot! Gotta have a lie at the ready when you time travel to take care of your literal inner child 🐇

and a bonus

#carpetbug art #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous fanart #bunny!chloe #chloe bourgeois #chloe #duvet #duvet: what I do in my burrow is my business and no one elses #ladybug: ITS A LITERAL FUCKING TIME MACHINE WHY WOULD THAT NOT BE OUR BUSINESS #you can really see i gave up on the last two panels <3 i love and hate drawing this shit is both awesome and so dumb at the same time #anyways baby chloe is hard to draw and so is crying WHEN ITS ALL SIMPLE AND TINY #ignore me i just make myself do things the hardest possible way every time #i know the burrow is the same for all rabbit holders but idk. Duvets burrow is all disorganized and chaotic to me

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bobzora · 1 month

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clock strike 12

#my art #persona 3 #p3 #minato arisato #makoto yuki #aigis #s.e.e.s #i have been first thinking about making this drawing since... about when i finished fes? and then i started it before reload came out.#long time coming! was a little obsessed with the clock thing will not lie #sooo the only thing from reload that made it in was his little sprout ahoge. moe #anyway I LOVE MINATO ARISATO!!!! MIMI!!!! dies. dies. heart #this drawings kind of huge i actually had to scale it down to get it to fit! lolmao.#also please ignore koromaru i did my best and that's what counts. xoxo #little detail: in the sketching stage i referenced their faces in the scene where they reunite with him :) idk how much that stayed bc i di #not keep referencing that but ! that was something i did.#also if i was better and more awesome i would have thanatos in the top right but your honor. i was not going to fucking do that. <3 #...might edit 2 make this my phone background. maybe #I LOVE YOU PERSONA THREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for coming.

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b4kuch1n · 1 year

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myth of the bare palm

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Our kind used to be hulking things of feathers and claws,

more gods than animals, roaming the snowed planes endless,

until we found each others

and in jubilant relief reached out

claws retracting,

feathers shedding,

so the moment of contact branded heat against bare skin.

#bakuspecial #comic #original art #ask to tag #hi! more creachure #for the record my perspective on this is that I'd fucking love to look like that^ and the #shedding of claws and feathers is a sacrifice #okay Im done lol annual cringe poetry slot filled #what do we learn? well we learn we should remember to prep our gotdamn nib #(I forgot to remove the oil on the nib lol I just plugged that shit in raw on purchase)#(no wonder it held like. two drops of ink at most)#and we learn drawing feathers with a dip pen slaps. just kinetically awesome #movement so slick I forgot and did the vane direction backward for the majority of this lmao #but it was fun. I also forwent the light table for this one so I didnt have to glue my eyes to the paper or turn off my light #waiting for the ink to dry properly sucks tho... well. you win some you lose some #okay. I gotta so lay down now. or eat dinner I havent decided #have a good nite! collide with a guy at high velocity okay?

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camellia-thea · 6 months

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so.... i finally started watching burrow's end

#feather speaks #burrow's end #dimension 20 #jaysohn burrow's end #lila burrow's end #tula burrow's end #ava burrow’s end #thorn burrow's end #viola burrow's end #i had so much fun drawing these #i started yesterday and i am most of the way through episode three and holy shit #the bear???? what the fuck that's was so awesome #i also. saw tula and fell in love so expect more doodles of her #tired mom energy my beloved #i had to draw thorn looking haunted #done pretty quickly overall #i forgot how to draw stoats kjhgdfhkjfg #i drew them all the time as a kid #that knowledge? gone

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abyssalhuntersnerd · 9 months

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Happy Birthday to the biggest little shit I know, I love you so much it hurts, seriously. Thank you for blessing us with your existence another year. <3 Lots of technical difficulties with this one but at least I can draw again. :')

#finished fish art #my art #arknights #specter #specter arknights #I would have loved to draw the doll too but alas my arm isn't fully recovered yet so I don't wanna force it too much #it's very simple I know but #what's having time nowadays #don't know her #I tried my best while having an injury and also my ink turning fucking SOLID cause of the heat which is great #I'm just happy that I made it to something this year and that I was able to draw a bit #cause it's been months since I was able to finish something like this and it felt awesome #it's not perfect but it's good enough for me I made sure to make the top the best part cause yeah lmao #so happy birthday specter #thank you for everything <3

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kaelidascope · 7 months

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A legacy that burns within the Ever After

Twixstari has a cool ass Rusted Knight AU with Yang instead of Jaune, if y'all haven't seen it you should check it out on twitter!

#RWBY #Yang Xiao Long #RWBY Fanart #GREENLIGHTVOLUME10 #Boy I haven't done full rendering in a hot minute #Feels good to draw dragons again I miss it #Need to do more Beestfic art #This AU is dark as fuck and I love it #Their Black Hatter concept for Blake too is AWESOME I'm gonna draw her too

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normalenjoyer-png · 1 month

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handwriting translation under the cut!!

@justalittleguest GRAAAHHHH okay i have thoughts. love thinking about these guys from a more canon perspective actually. i think honestly. geno would only have a positive interaction with horror because like. doing Anything for papyrus. they could very much relate. i think given time they could probably even become friends but also horror trust issues. horror's paranoia. it would be ummmmmm a strained. friendship.

i also think nightmare just brings in other sanses to cause chaos and spread negativity among the crew every once in a while just cause it's funny. it benefits him too yeah but mostly it's funny. assigning them babysitting duty every 6 weeks.

HORROR: god no i fucking hate working for boss. but it keeps paps+snowdin fed and queen off my back.

GENO: hell if i don't know what it's like to do anything for paps.

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DUST (signing hurriedly): no thank you

KILLER: dust you have to let me make this escape dust please DUST—

DUST: FLEE

KILLER: DUST IM GOING TO FUCKING OBLITERATE YOU

GENO: so...what's the deal with you two?

KILLER: your eye looks too much like boss's, man...

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NIGHTMARE: wow i'm so glad i brought this guy in today

#god i need to draw geno more i do love this guy<33333 #aftertale's story is so<3333ACK!!!#utmv #bad sanses #geno sans #his fucking scar is the wrong way. pretend it's not 🫡#horror sans #dust sans #killer sans #nightmare sans #ugh cool now i'm thinking of horror geno friendship. cool awesome shdkdjshskdj #also in ur post u said 'one of my fav utmv blogs rn' BE SO FR<33333 IM MELTING YOURE TOO KIND #LITERALLY A BIG GROSS PILE OF GOO. LOVE EXPLOSION 🧡🧡💥💥💥💥#normal art

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small-spark-of-light · 6 months

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day 25 was to draw in a style ive never drawn in before!!! so i replicated @zankydraws and @0xeyedaisy

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #incredibox v9 #el cool p #30 day challenge #sparks creations #i love these artists they're so epic and awesome #BOTH of their art is very different from mine #especially daisys #so i thought it would be nice!!!! i had a lot of fun :DDD #i referenced that one drawing daisy did of el cool p with the magazine #and i referenced a lot of zankys works ;A;#the shading and the background came from zankys piece with all 20 v9 characters #this is the thing i was talking about XD #daisys linework was so fun to replicate omg #i fucking love these styles you do NOT understand #i dont think i got the shading right for daisys but its fine XD the layers were being WEIRD with zankys side :(#the most i struggled with was zankys FUCKING HANDS #FUCK YOOU/J #THEY'RE SO PRETTY AND SO GOOD LOOKING AND I HAD TROUBLE REPLICATING IT >:(#i had to draw el cool p #i was gonna do more but i need rest ;-;

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worri-wort · 1 year

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Inspired by @finniestoncrane ‘s playlist for Capullo’s Riddler!! Been listening to it while going to class and it makes me chuckle quite a lot. I honestly love Finnie’s writing and her blog has been getting me through this week.

Looking forward to doing more drawing next week since I actually have some spare time, I hope. Lot’s of Riddler and hopefully some other DC characters on the way!!