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precious 💙🩷

blue and magenta!

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One of my favorite Disney films of all time ♡

Idk how to caption this. Look at these mice I drew I guess lol

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I needed this so badly. Thank you. XD

fuck it 10 pm post we like to party

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The most important thing I've read all day.

Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

FT my cat. His name is Mischief

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Listen I know I'm a month late for the redraw thing but— 😭

Some me-art and I go back to my cave

Ily all I hope u haven't forgetten about me 😔

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I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH!!! 🐜💙

Commission for @wayward-delver, Thanks for commissioning me!

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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!

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Uhhh I’m self conscious about my writing, please be nice 😔

I’ll edit some of these later…

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beauty and the beast feat. metamy!

was in my mind already for a year hehe

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I wanted to draw clouds

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🌻hogtaro🌻

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Back on my Toon Sonic bullshit, OG screenshot I redrew under the read more

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two of my all-time favorite series put together ^^ 🫶

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“Monster Girl”

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This is PRECIOUS! 💖

uploading my Snoopics here too <3

it kept getting reuploaded everywhere without credit so-

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Here I come, rougher than the rest of 'em!

Woahoo here he comes

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Everyone go support my friend and Sonic artist @im-just-a-dumb-gay

First drawing of 2025