* from @batfall : what do you mean , you aren’t coming back ?
“ not for awhile , at least [ ... ] not as me . ” you offer up an apologetic smile , one you’re sure doesn’t ease the tension that curves along his shoulders . guilt settles in your stomach as hands uncomfortably twitch at your side , every time you let yourself get near something peaceful , something or someone around the corner choses otherwise . “ i’m doing this for you , henry is getting suspicious of me [ ... ] &* crossfire , &* the batman . ” as your mouth grows dryer at the thought , you take a moment to swallow , breathe ( you swore you would never let your family into that piece of your life , a wall you built to protect them from the horrors that thrill you ) . “ he knows that we’re [ ... ] close . i’m not going to put you in any form of danger of being exposed , i won’t . ” your hand finds his , fingers interlocked &* you grant him a momentary squeeze , a hopeful moment of comfort . “ you’ll see me , just as crossfire . just for a little while . ”
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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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“Leaving a fang out is vampire blepping” lead to “astarion yawns like a cat”
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when making a character, u have to ask urself:
are they bloody?
will they ever be bloody?
is it their blood or somebody elses blood theyre covered in?
why are they bloody?
how drenched in blood are they going to be from a scale of 1-10, with 1 being ''barely drenched'' and 10 being ''so covered we shld ask where there ISNT any blood on them''?
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