#pulp style

[paintermagazine]

‘A snake in the arse!’

Original artist: Arthur Sarnoff

Original source: ‘PaperbackArt.com’

#pin up style #pin up art #comic book art #pin up cartoon #good girl art #pulp art #pulp style #pulp cover #Arthur Sarnoff #PaperbackArt.com #snake #yellow dress #pin up pose

[danielcalmdown]

Portraits of Lucien, the funeral home employee

#my drawing #im TRYING to draw more loosely and less perfectly #i <3 old pulp comic style sm

[ink-the-artist]

vampire romance :)

#keep liking my posts and were gonna end up like this #art #illustration #colored pencil #vampire #vampire lesbianism moment #wlw art #wlw #lesbian #i wanted this to look a bit like those older style of book cover illustrations #for pulp novels #esp horror ones #kinda went wild with the cape coloring at some point lmao #was originally just going to use the blue of the sky for highlights on the cape to indicate wrinkles and folds #then added a bit of yellow to reflect the moon #then went fuck it. were doing crow feather iridescence now

[rad-roche]

Pulp Covers And How To Paint Them

With the rise of cheap printing in the early twentieth century, mass-marked paperbacks swept the world, each offering lurid thrills for obscenely low prices. Sex, sadism, and incredible violence for as little as ten cents. An easy purchase to slot in between fifty cigarettes a day and enough bourbon slugs to kill a small garden.

Pulp fiction is where some of the greats of American literature cut their teeth, including the big three, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett. The contents of these stories, both the dizzyingly good and astoundingly terrible, have been absorbed and digested and remixed and regurgitated in nearly every permutation imaginable, fuelling pop culture some one hundred years on. This isn't an essay on that. Nobody likes to open a tutorial and be greeted with a wall of text. The history is for another time.

But it is about how to paint it.

Don't let the pre-amble intimidate you, it's not as hard as it sounds. You will need:

Painting software with some image editing capabilities. You don't need all the bells and whistles of Photoshop, but I wouldn't recommend something like MSPaint, at least not to start with. I'm using Clip Studio Paint.

A really beat-up paper texture. The grungier, the better.

A lightly-textured brush. Here are the specific brushes I use, 99% of which is the well-named rough brush. Try and avoid anything with any impasto elements.

Go to your colour-picking tool and use the 'select from layer' option. Doing all the painting on a single layer is going to make your life easier.

A complete willingness to make mistakes and, instead of erasing, painting over them. It generates much more colour variation and interest! Keep your finger off the E key.

Good reference! That painting is a master copy of Mitchel Hooks' art for Day of the Ram. Find a style you really love and want to learn? Have no clue where to begin? Do direct studies!

Let's not worry about whatever is happening in the background. It's probably fine. Let's get started! Pulp magazine art is a lot more varied than you might first think, so don't agonize over having a style that 'fits' or not. I'm also specifically aiming for something you'd see on the cover after printing, not the initial painting they would use for printing. The stuff I'll show here is a pretty narrow band of it, but here are some general commonalities. This is a painting by Tom Lovell.

Let's dig into this.

The colours are very bright and saturated, but the actual values, the relative lightness and darkness of them, are actually grouped very simply! You can check this by filling a layer full of black, putting it on top and setting its mode to colour. If the value of a painting looks good, you actually get a lot of leeway with colour. But here's what I think is the most important thing to keep in mind.

The darks aren't that dark, and the lights aren't all that light! Covers are paintings reproduced on cheap paper. Anything you wouldn't want to happen in the printing process, you lean into. Value wash-outs, lower contrast, colours getting a weird wash to them, really gritty texturing. So let's get painting! Here's my typical setup.

That bottom folder is the painting itself. The screen layer is the grungy paper texture. To get the effect you want, put it down, invert its colour, then set it to screen. That washes out your painting far, far too much, so to compensate, I put a contrast layer up on top. Fiddle around with the settings, but this is where mine ended up sitting.

Note I'm saying this before even starting the painting: you want to do this as early as possible. This is where the 'select from layer' colour picker comes in handy. You can paint without worrying about the screen or contrast layer. Something not looking right? Enable your value check layer and keep painting. When you turn it off, it'll still be in colour. Here's a timelapse so you can see what that looks like.

And when you check the values...

They're pretty simple! This isn't a be all and end all, but I hope it serves as a decent primer. I want thirty dames on my desk by Monday!

#rochedotpng #art tutorial #art resources #couldn't find a thing online about this style so here's how i do it #pulp #it's how i did the death shroud one more or less

[kilianromero]

Action Stories (1945)

#vintage #retro #illustration #cool #weekend #friday #vintage illustration #thriller #action #1940s fashion #1940s style #1940s #magazine #stories #pulp art #pulp magazine #pulp fiction

[gothboiskinny]

airplane mode.

#edgy #dark #goth #gothic #grunge #emo #punk #alternative #scene #pulp fiction #mia wallace #smoking #classic movies #90s #90s aesthetic #aesthetic #aesthetics #quentin tarantino #urban style #photography

[br0k3nbl0ss0ms]

Chloë Sevigny and Jarvis Cocker by Tara Subkoff, circa late 90s

#chloe sevigny #jarvis cocker #pulp #pulp band #britpop #1990s #1990s aesthetic #1990s style #1990s fashion #1990s music #1990s photography

[vintage-tigre]

Uma Thurman by Ellen Von Unwerth

#uma thurman #90s icons #pulp fiction #ellen von unwerth #photography #beauty #style #bad bish #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #eroticism #stogies #girls smoking #femme fatale

[tygerland]

Quentin Tarantino dances with Melanie Laurent at the Cannes premiere of Inglourious Basterds May 20, 2009.

#quentin tarantino #melanie laurent #inglourious basterds #film #retro #2000s #movies #dance #people #the movie critic #cinephile #films #style #fashion #actress #cinema #pulp fiction #filmmaking #director #cannes film festival #🎬

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#pulp art #skull #dead #death #memento mori #possession #haunted #goth aesthetic #gothic architecture #victorian style #victorian era

[pinkbunnygirl555]

#girlblogging #coquette #lana del rey #girlhood #girly #im just a girl #sparkle jump rope queen #this is a girlblog #dolette #pink #vintage style #vintage fashion #vintage illustration #retro #horror movies #vintage horror #pulp fiction #pulp horror #pretty lady #gothic #goth aesthetic #goth girl

[paintermagazine]

‘She left ‘em red, as well as sore!’

Original artist: Rudolph Belarski

#pin up style #pin up art #good girl art #pulp art #comic book art #pulp cover #pulp style #pulp fiction #Rudolph Belarski #Steve Fisher #Redsaw Jenny #popular library

[sidesteppostinghours]

"Keep me up, keep me out late Keep me close, I need your faith Keep right where you are 'cause I've followed this far Like I'm sure that you're the northern star Oh, I'm sure that you're the northern star"

#some digital painting practice with a cute song i got brainrot over #whoever introduced me to it. you know who you are and im blaming this piece on you 🫵 #this is my first time painting something digital or otherwise so i was Way out of my depth but i like the way it turned out #think it works with my more sketchy style #this was also Absolutely inspired by capricules art. they paint pretty and i like the lyric art they do . yeah #this was fun! but also glass my beloathed #ortega #fhr #pulp draws

[spacetimesally]

Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series…

The 20s & 30s (1 of 3) - The Astounding Wonders of Spacetime Sally, inspired by the 1920s sci-fi serials and pulp sci-fi of the time, this one keeping it simple in the style of the era (spacegirl to spaceflapper)

#scifi #retro #retro style #vintage style #1920s fashion #1920s #pulp era #flapper #art #artwork #ai artwork #ai art #ai photo #black and white #b&w #vintage #vintage fashion #aesthetic

[briefgardenerpirate]

Mystery of the Wax Museum and it's two remakes

01. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

02. House of Wax (1953)

03. House of Wax (2005)

#my post #cult cinema #cult movies #horror #illustration #gothic #elisha cuthbert #vincent price #paris hilton #jared padalecki #fay wray #carolyn jones #lionel atwill #house of wax #mystery of the wax museum #goth aesthetic #gothic style #gothic aesthetic #pulp horror #horror films #poster #share this post #horror movies #psychological horror #horror icons #horror illustration #charles bronson #michael curtiz #André De Toth #slashers

[cavalier-consciousness]

+ yoshio okada surfer girl 1974

#art #alternative #surf #pop #pop art #pulp #pulp art #comic #comic art #illustrations #illustration #style #pale #artwork #fashion #designer #design #illustrator #illustrative art