#I USED A COLOR PALETTE GENERATOR FOR THIS

[whimizera-me]

@sboopie

your lawyer fugo au has given me SOO much delight

anyways this is what I think he looks like whenever sees DIO

#jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo #lawyer fugo au #DIO #jojo part five #golden wind #jjba fugo #fugo pannacotta #I USED A COLOR PALETTE GENERATOR FOR THIS #AND THEN IT JUST GAVE ME FUGOS COLORS #GODDANGIT

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

#not art #dungeon meshi #rant #i'm someone who can get obsessive over colors in my own art #will stare at the screen adjusting hues/saturation for hours #luckily i've gotten faster at color picking #but yeah modern anime's color design is saddening to me. the general trend leans towards white/grey desaturated palettes #simply because they're easier to pick digitally #this is not the colorists fault mind you. the anime industry's problems are also labor problems. artists are severely underpaid #and overworked. colorists literally aren't paid enough to do their best #there isn't a “creative drought” in the anime industry. this trend is widespread across studios purely BECAUSE it's not up to individuals #until work conditions improve anime will unfortunately continue to miss its fullest potential visually #don't even GET ME STARTED ON THE USE OF POST-PROCESSING FILTERS AND LIGHTING IN ANIME THOUGH #SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK. I HATE LENS FLARES I HATE GRADIENT SHADING I HATE CHROMATIC ABBERATION AND BLUR

[heynhay]

will you break and take all the words from my mouth?

#klance #voltron #vld #keith kogane #lance mcclain #IM BITING RIPPING AND TEARING #THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE SONG I PROMISED. #THE LANCE SONG. #i will literally guarantee satisfaction if you just go listen #not to mention its a fucking banger in general #it gets a fucking 99% klance match score. it has tension. some resentment. lots of love. overwhelming everything. god #this comic would be like right around the beat drop at 2 min btw. #me finally putting lance thru it for once instead of keith LOL #tumblr user heynhay be like STORYTELLING THROUGH COLOR CAN WE USE THE PALETTE TO BUILD THE NARRATIVE PLEASE!!! #BUT BACK TO THE SONG #IT HAS EVERYTHING. EVEN REFERENCES TO BOOTS. LONG HAIR. OUTDATTED 80s FASHION. #REFERENCES TO BEING RUDE TO THEM IN ORDER TO GET THEIR ATTENTION. #REFERENCES TO BEING ANGRY BC YOU CANT STOP THINKING ABT THEM #i unironicallyt must have listened to this one hundreds of times on loop while drawing this. enjoy. #art #my art #btw keith is explaining some deranged shit hes like: (with big sparkly anime eyes) do you wanna go build a pipe bomb and blow up that bldng

[quill-n]

I'm pretty sure this joke has been made before (not sponsored lmao)

*slightly edited version because the original drawing is really saturated (unedited below the cut)

[ID] A digital drawing of Mollymauk Tealeaf from Critical Role. He is dressed in more modern-styled clothing, including a collared shirt with iridescent-ish colors, a choker, and shorts with red fishnets. He still has gold and silver piercings and horn jewelry. He is sitting with one arm propped up on his knee, taking a sip from a Coca Cola bottle (not sponsored). His tail is flicked up behind him and is wagging slightly. [end ID]

CW// mild(?) eyestrain /bright colors

[ID] The same drawing as the previous image except whole drawing is done in bright, saturated colors. [end ID]

#quillnart #critical role #mollymauk tealeaf #cw eyestrain #cw bright colors #I don't generally use superbright palettes for my art but sometimes I just gotta let loose #also he's more fun to draw when I don't have to look at a reference every two seconds lol #I drew this because I recently thrifted a little dice bag #and I didn't realize until WAY after that I liked it because the pattern reminded me of Molly's coat #and I subsequently starting calling it the ''molly bag'' (which has yet to get me in trouble but I think is funny)

[diamondsheep]

Zorooo ⚔✨!!!

this is a redraw of this fanart that i made in 2022

#that drawing was one of my first Zoro fanarts and tbh i'm proud of how much OP has helped me with anatomy and art in general <3 #i have learned a lot while drawing fanart of these series <3 also it challenged me to draw humans #which is something i really didn't do in the past 😅 #ily zoro thank you for inspiring me so much <33 #zoro #roronoa zoro #one piece #one piece fanart #my drawings #zoro roronoa #op zoro #zoro op #diamondsheep art #btw guys do you like the shiny colors ?? bc i wanna try using that kind of palette again #i miss those really bright and bold colors #btw pls tell me if i should tag this bc of you know .. the colors lol

[valentinemesis]

domestic nightmare -END-

#i love generating color palettes and then using them to make lineless art!!!! yay!!! #shoko nadami #aitsf #ai: the somnium files

[taikk0]

middle aged mutant ninja leo loses greasy haired son at a grocery store

#coloring test mostly #i used a randomly generated palette again dhasjhf #but then i got bored and started shading with colors that werent in the palette #it actually turned out pretty good #so yeah if anyones wondering why hes red thats why #might make a part 2?? idk #the pose was made first before everything else btw it was just a fun pose #i havent colored anything like this before its so new to me FJDSKNH #rottmnt #rottmnt movie #rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt movie #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt 2018 #tmnt 2k18 #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt art #tmnt fanart #tmnt art #rottmnt leo #rottmnt leonardo #tmnt leo #tmnt leonardo #mikyomix art

[eveningrainstorm]

you can't take back what you've done

#this is the third Unhappy Nao i mentioned when i posted that drawing of her the other day btw #sorry nao painting time is over time to face the horrors #nao egokoro #your turn to die #yttd #kazumi mishima #<- i guess #my art #i used a randomly generated color palette for this to experiment with using a limited color palette #it was very different from my usual process but i think it looks neat

[secretmellowblog]

Me: I'm gonna stop procrastinating and create a Les Mis comic! Finally, I'll draw something related to the main story! Me: Okay step one is doing in depth research on the historical boats of the period (similar to the Orion), what these ships and their harbors would've looked like, and creating an extremely high-effort historically accurate 3D model reflecting that research-- Me: oh god. this is why Victor Hugo does all those history tangents...ive been in the fandom long enough to attempt to start making my own Digressions

#really though I think blocking things out in Blender has made illustration 200000000000 times easier for me #so if I adapt the ship Orion sequence #itll take some time to model a ship #it'll take a Lot of time #but once that's over I could crank out a comic adaptation relatively quickly? #because it's just doing yeah some painstaking handmade linework #but the general lighting/color palette/perspective of the background would be there #and the model wouldn't have to be perfect if I'm just using it as a base/painting over it #my other Easier adaptation I might do as a test first #is Jean Valjean's weird trippy dream sequence before Arras #v beautiful evocative imagery that would be fun to draw #and it wouldnt be complicated either #because it's just 'a town where all the houses are the same' #anyway

[age-of-moonknight]

Variant cover for Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #3 by Ivan Reis.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight vol. 9 #Moon Knight 2021 #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #let’s get this other bread #:OOO #I love a lot of things in comics and I generally try to be selective of where I hold strong opinions #but I have to admit that I am especially fond of this kind of almost painterly art style #and the color palette too! I love the various shades of blue and teal #and the use of pink in some highlights just kind of reminds me of cangiante you know? #(in other words ignore op my art education is pretty woefully limited hahaha)

[flame-shadow]

siblings

#grabbed some color palettes and did some single layer quick paints #hollow knight #hollow #hornet #ghost #flameshadowart #i used coolers for generating palettes #id in alt

[cordycepsbian]

♥️♠️spy card oh yeah♦️♣️

#bug fables #bf carmina #stuff i made tag #bf art month #honestly we like this color palette better than carmina's canon design #we like card suit-themed character designs in general but #the higher contrast red/black/white works better than red/black/dark gray for us #also please ignore the off-center writing we can't fix that now

[monarchisms]

this was very obviously supposed to be posted for mermay, but with the end of a school semester at that time and other minor personal stuff, that just wasn't gonna happen. i'm just happy i finished this at all lol

but yeah, with this mermaid design i made for matt, i based it on the appearance of a megamouth shark:

#based on me looking up 'cool sharks' on google #and yeah i saved the file as 'mermyatt' because that's the objectively correct choice :P #axialmatt #matt bragg #fun fact for the tags: #the hair colors were the same ones i always use for matt fanart #but i inverted the colors by accident #and kept the streak color from that #the base hair color changed to light blue #and while i like that shade. it clashed with the general color palette of matt #so i changed it to light brown ^_^ #lest i pulled a r/ooster teeth disaster sdfsfgfsfddsfd #e's art

[rogdona]

#love generating random color palettes. esp if the colors dont go together but i never know how to use em #art #my art #furry #iguess

[help-me-nah]

using my fantasy au as an excuse for some fantasy faction uniform concept art:

Knights of Hawkins

The Enchanter’s Tower

variants, details, and notes under the cut

seasonal uniforms and layers of the average knight:

The pavise in the bottom left is far more accurate of a shield, because the heater shield would be worthless against a demodog (but I put too much work into it to scrap it entirely). By and large the Hawkins knights rely on polearms and shields-- standard knights use wood shields and simple spears, higher ranking knights may train in and utilize more complex polearms, and swords are a status symbol that are generally only wielded by nobility. The marshal has a metal shield with the full Hawkins crest on it as a symbol of rank that gets passed down.

Knights are provided a tabard according to their rank, and two gambesons (a sleeveless one for summer patrols, and a longer one for cooler seasons and hunts). The mail, spear, and shield are standard equipment that are on loan through the duration of a knight’s service. Any additional armor or weaponry they have to acquire themselves.

Court sorcerers don’t strictly have a uniform, but they do have a curated and themed wardrobe. Senior enchanter robes aren’t gendered-- some enchanters stick to one as a matter of preference, some swap them according to mood or circumstance. Alchemists, record-keepers/scribes, and most herbalists/apothecaries fall into the hierarchy of the enchanter’s tower, even though they aren’t enchanters themselves.

#concept art #worldbuilding #stranger things au #fantasy #fantasy au #not gonna put this in main tags because it's too niche I think #fic art #(sorry fred for using you in concept art when I killed you off off-screen before the story even started) #also the daily wear knights and squires have underneath wouldn't actually all be in browns and beiges #i just didn't want to introduce a bunch of random colors to the palette #also higher ranking knights would generally have helmets or get help acquiring a helmet #I just hate drawing armor enough that a handful of dumb-looking attempts at helmets with enough peripheral vision was enough for me #lmk if anyone would like alt text because tumblr will not let me add them directly to these images

[arb0k]

sonoran-inspired zoo i've been working on.... this courtyard has all the staff buildings and a fairly private habitat for some oryxes (or is it just oryx?)

#i like using the staff areas as a way to knock out a color palette for the rest of everything #gonna make some generic rest areas and stuff next before i start actually building much of anything #zero plays planet zoo