#the colors and composition and everything about it

[commsroom]

... which oblivion has not yet swallowed up and buried. 🌊 (art by @hehearse, who is always wonderful.)

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #i am so in love with this piece #the colors and composition and everything about it #the glassy techlike artificiality of the wave #with its lines and dots #her expression is so striking #the line of her reflections. the way that blue holographic look overlaps in the wave and her dress is cut off by the lines of the uniform #it's so good. it's so so good. thank you so much #this has such a great atmosphere and i think it captures her perfectly. and it's a great representation of #what i mean when i say she's not literally blue. it's what it represents. #art

[werewolfclaws]

And while you're at it / Keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul 🍀

A little postcard for @laikascomet ! It's so utterly amazing watching Laika's Comet grow from sketches to a full blown comic that's already completed chapter 1!

#crow.png #laika's comet #marzipanne laika's comet #fanart #i literally daydream about this comic constantly #the coloring of the panels and the composition of everything is literally so gorgeous and pleasing to the eye #and it literally just. AGH! #it means so much to me artistically and as a queer person being represented in media #and having the story told by a queer person too #like... hearing mars being consistently referred to with their proper pronouns warms my heart #and its just so nice seeing their identities be protected and not watered down for other audiences and their palettes #mars and this song make me sooo... oh goodness #twirls and twirls #also not to mention the lines about the lighthouse v the night light #though i respect it a lot / id be fired if that were my job #just the idea of a smaller product looking up at its primitive father and the jobs it does #the impact it creates into the world versus the little night light #its just. to me thats laika and her dad or yue and laika's dad

[rains-pace]

in honor of the new spider-verse movie i did a quick study of one of my favorite shots from the original !! <33

#my art #spiderverse #spider-verse #into the spider-verse #miles morales #i know everyone in the world has studied this shot! now i have too! #id like to spend more time on it next time i stopped after about 30 minutes so i mostly just carved shapes in #i think id also like to ! get some more different painting brushes bc i couldnt get a lot of the shapes i wanted #but it was fun trying to study this without color picking or directly drawing over the composition and everything #so i was just eyeballing it . ive been trying to figure out color relativity by Feeling it out so i wanted to do it this way #comparing them has been interesting ! i can see where i compressed some spaces of the composition #anyway it HAS been almost a year since i posted art here HAHA but well i just post for fun so it doesnt matter #if i posted ocs id have more art here but i prefer not to so you just get stuff whenever i make fanart #i would LOVE to do studies from the new movie but i dont have access to high quality screenshots yet #i actually did this as an exercise with one of my friends from college hehe we exchanged spiderverse screenshots to study #i also added some chromatic abberation you know just for fun . i made a version with it over the full piece but i thought well #i preferred it like this #anyway ! bye !

[captainbasch]

doing a study of Yuto Sano's art because i am obviously head over heels for it. Yuto Sano, Kazue Kato, and Kazuya Minekura are the best mangaka out there and you can't convince me otherwise LOL I wish I was a sliver as talented as these artists, but I can only continue to practice :( I still don't have any good texture brushes made so my style might change a bit from here on out - that's okay change can be good c: OH, this is my magical boy who still needs a name = v =;;;

#ocs #study #i will keep studying even tho i have been so deflated about losing my brushes LOL LIKE come on girl it was just some pixels #but i am also still unsure about my art. i have no recognizable style nothing fun and unique to contribute to the world. i only copy and #emulate :( I need to work on fundamentals color composition everything! and its so daunting but I can only ever keep going forward

[ballisterboldheart]

this is what we have that cobra kai does not. their movement mile wide, but only inch deep. but, our movement, inch wide, but mile deep.

#cobra kai #cobrakaiedit #daniel larusso #johnny lawrence #chozen toguchi #s.gif #gifsets that kicked my ass. physically. #coloring took foreverrrr composition took foreverrrrr everything took foreverrrrrr #but head/heart/hands dynamics drive me insane. #its about being part of a whole its about being better together #HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH johnny as the hands the shield the fist. not much upstairs but boy can he take a punch. the tip of the spear. #chozen as the brains. not discounting his brawn but he's quick he's clever he doesn't attack in any way you expect. #daniel as the heart and soul. the corazon. if we're going to have a revolution we need him to lead it. #its not about being the best or strongest its about not giving up its about letting yourself lean on others when you need to #making me. lose it.

[prvtocol]

recom brianne (@prvtocol) & metkayina san'tos (@badtrigger) relaxing in a marui / art also by @badtrigger ᠂ ⚘ ˚

#artbyzaff #⚘ ˚◞ saved ◞ . #⚘ ˚◞ verse˚ avatar ◞ 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓈𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓅𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝓁𝓅𝒽𝒶 𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓊𝓇𝒾. #⚘ ˚◞ post-war ◞ . #(( cries in na'vi ;; #thank you sm zaff for this beautiful gift. seeing our babs in this verse sparks so much joy icb. LOOK AT THEM! #everything about this piece is gorgeous: the colors. the composition. the embrace. bri's lil bump ;; #i can feel their contentment through the screen aaaaaa 🥺 #i adore it sm 💛🥰 ))

[xipiti]

#john rogers #generative ai #and why it’s shit #throwing predictive text or pixels at a wall will never equal a well-crafted story or image #all the tiny details and specific placement of a word or a color or composition #that tell you a thinking and feeling mind made this #that give you a little spark of connection with the crafter ‘oh I see what you did there!’ #or a mistake turned spontaneously into a miracle that makes the whole work better #it’s devastating to me that we’re training people to just blink and smile at the shiny thing and then instantly move on #not that everything has to be deep #but even the simplest line drawing has a vibe to it that a computer tossing the most-similar pixels onto a screen will never have #fuck ai #you can block that tag if you’re tired of my existential crisis about tech bros thinking they can automate creativity

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

Snipping this bit of today’s Kochab because I do not want to repeat Big Spoilers but I am also once again in love with the way Kyra’s outfit blends so seamlessly into its environment.

#if it were winter here then I too would want a lava scarf #and also. the composition. the colors. everything about this panel is executed so well #kochab #not polls

[squishosaur]

i really really love your art it feels so flowy and comforting 🌟🌟 it's super nice to look at :-)💗💗💘

thanks so so much!! this makes me so super happy!!! i think my art is very picturebook-esque... or that's what i'm told anyways!! but i try really hard to capture feelings in a very silly goofy way :3 anyways, thank you for the kind words and i always love seeing you in my notifs :0c

#askbox! #chatter #analogseeker #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #my art :> #doodles #my art teacher this year was like 'you can derive meaning from every stroke in an artists work. it's all intentional' #so i try to put meaning in everything. from the colors to the compositions to the shapes i used in a particular piece #it all means something to me #even if it's silly. even if it doesn't make sense to anyone but me. #i think that's important. to love all the lines and shapes you make. not because they're perfect #but because they mean something to you :3 #I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING SUPER SERIOUS ON MY FANART BLOG.... I'M TALKING ABOUT ORIGINAL ART TOO #I ALSO MAKE MY OWN CHARACTERS AND WRITE MY OWN STORIES... #i have original compositions as well #i just do not post them because even though they're soso important to me i don't know if they'd be as well-recieved as fanart is!! #anyways sorry for rambling again!!! #have an awesome day!

[fulgurbugs]

idk another thing is recently i feel like i’ve just been going through one of those rapid improvement periods where i am just liking a lot of aspects of my own art better. dreading the inevitable plateau though

#idk if it’s visible from the outside but i feel like my colors lined compositions and just like everything #has been getting better recently #i’ve been having a lot of fun doing full color/shading stuff and working quickly #instead of only doing sketches and stuff too #and i’ve been weaning off the color picker and trying to match colors with just my eye #or trying to adjust for lighting by hand more #i think it’s helping me get a lot more interesting with my colors which was something i thought was pretty boring about my stuff before

[monstertsunami]

flip flopping between pafl and fac is so. ohh im in stasis idk what to draw

#actually i havent done anything for the betty tag in a good bit. maybe if im not as sick tomorrow ill doodle smthn.. #wanna renderrr wanna painttt i dontt wanna sketchh #i hate having to come up with 'interesting ideas' . boom 20th betty staring soullessly into the camera in a row #MY COLORS R THE ONLY THING CARRYING ME IM SO SHIT AT EVERYTHING ELSE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #ok nooo we are not doing this again. i have GOOD anatomy i CAN come up with interesting ideas when i put my mind to it #i just. dont want to :3 #auugh i have. interesting compositions w symbolism already doodled in my sketchbook but.. #i really fucking hate redrawing stuff in digital.. its so painful.. i hate redrawing stuff in general thats why i cant do lineart like. #I already fucking drew all that youre telling me i have to draw it AGAIN? fuck off. #siigh #maybe i only have to redraw the parts that are bad.. if im doing a lineless painting.. hm #much to think about #schizobabble

[reddpenn]

Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?

Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.

I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.

So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:

Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.

More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.

Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.

No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.

Now without further ado, I present to you:

The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately

JANUARY: GARNET

I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!

FEBRUARY: QUARTZ

The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!

MARCH: SPODUMENE

March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.

APRIL: FELDSPAR

Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.

MAY: BERYL

May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.

JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS

It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.

JULY: SPINEL

July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.

AUGUST: PERIDOT

Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION

SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM

Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.

OCTOBER: TOURMALINE

Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!

NOVEMBER: TOPAZ

November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.

DECEMBER: ZIRCON

I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.

“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”

Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.

#birthstones #talkin' bout rocks

[pissfizz]

I should just give up on the idea of art school all together

#my arts not good enough to be able to get in anywhere #it’s shitty anime art with zero interesting composition or colors or anything that actually matters #and I don’t know where to start or what to do to even TRY and no one can help me cuz no one fucking knows anything about art school #and my family keeps talking about how great I am and how famous and rich I could get with my art but it doesn’t fucking work like that and - #-they only think I’m good cuz none of them are artists and they don’t fucking know shit about how the art world works #and even if I did miraculously get in which will never feasibly happen it’s not like artists actually get jobs anymore and if they do they - #-don’t fucking get paid so what’s the fucking point #what’s the point of any of this shit #I’m not good enough and there’s just no fucking way I’d be employed or able to survive even if I did get into and graduate school #do I even have it in me to handle art school. do I even have the fucking motivation or confidence needed so I don’t fucking drop out #i don’t fucking know I hate this I hate everything about this so much #I’m so tired I want to just give up #vent

[cannibalisticskittles]

losing my mind a little bit because i went to a fabric store and poked around and i finally confirmed some thoughts about the fabric, such as that polyester blends would definitely be better than 100% cotton, but i can't just go buying it because i need a main fabric and a rib knit that MATCH each other

and even just realizing that was a little frustrating because it took a while to find stores that sold cotton polyester fabric ones that looked like they might be the right color, but okay, i just need a cotton blend fabric in the same shade as rib knit, i'll look for a store that sells both, not too bad right?

but I cannot for the life of me find a fabric store that sells rib knit fabric and cotton blend fabric in the same color. i found a few stores that have cotton blends in a shade that looks passable for her outfit, and i found some (more rare) stores that sell rib knit in a color that could pass as correct. but none sell em in the same color. and even though the colors i'm finding are passable, so far, they aren't close enough that i could just get one fabric from one store and the other fabric from another store. they're not close enough to each other.

so like, what next. keep searching and trying to find the fabric that looks the most similar and just hope that it doesn't look too incongruous? or buy the fabric in white and dye them with fabric dye and hope that that comes out the right color??

#rn i think #if a solid half hour of searching doesn't turn up same/very very similarly colored fabrics #buying in white and dyeing myself is likely #except i haven't even researched fabric dye and i dont know if i can even get something that looks like the right magenta/fuchsia/whatever #but if i get white shorts and dye them at the same time that means everything should look about the same right?? #tho its possible the dye will take differently to the fabrics because of the different compositions #but. well. we'll see perhaps

[wekillitwithfire]

i must share with you all an artist i found out about today John Holyfield who has very quickly become one of my all time favorites

#the colors and the style and the composition and the EVERYTHING about these just

[saltedpineapple]

So JJK is over and my LMK brainrot is back , added with the fact i am playing a MOBA game and am being blessed with delicious illustrations it prompted me to make this

Now i am going to ramble about this because this is the first time in forever where i kinda pushed myself to make a FULL art piece-

I will be standing for this-

Let me tell you, i had no confidence in this and the composition was supposed to be way different, but this still happened. This took two days because i kept procrastinating , walking around my room dreading drawing the background BIG ADVICE FOR BEGINNER ARTISTS Watch speedpaints. You will learn so much by watching the process and that was this for me I have the tendency to kinda burn myself out and finish everything in a day and then never actually finishing. Tried something different for this and made a cheap silhouette of a sketch, then drew over that and used greys and whites fort the shadows. Then i think i colored everything in a base color (and i finally used a palette) and then i tried to find the lighting and shadow colours. It was weird. And what im saying is that i planned most of it instead of diving head in withour a plan. Crazy i know-

I also just learned about dpi PROPERLY and unfortunately made my piece so big that it kept stalling paint tool sai-

let me just post the progress shots

I also fucked up macaques reference and fixed it in a whim somewhere. You can see it here. I honestly wasn't planning to follow the lmk at style but that kinda happens when you're starring too much at the references.

There's still a mess and i wanted to render it a bit better ,the way i normally do but i didn't. Anyways i did enjoy the process and i actually miss them so much and i might watch LMK all over again Especially Wukong and MK

Btw this was supposed to be a moving illustration and i just didn't

I have Live2D but no

(Btw please check out my profile if you have the chance and thank you for reading this! Love you-)

#lmk art #lmk sun wukong #lmk fanart #lmk macaque #lego monkey kid fanart #lego monkie kid #lmk monkey king #lmk shadowpeach #shadowpeach #six eared macaque #lego monkie king #OK BUT I FOUND OUT HOW TO DO THE EFFECT IN THE FIRST AND I FELT LIKE A KID ON CHRISTMAS #btw im sorry i dont ever post anything for any holidays #it will be the same for the chinese new year and valentines day