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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

A phonograph that “reads” and transforms a rock’s rough surface into music | source                          

Listening to Rock music 🪨

Geralt visits Berlin – official promo illustration for The Witcher III Next Gen.

Client: CD PROJEKT RED.

This artwork is part of a series of “Postcards from the Witcher crew” (more of those here, by various artists)

Drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos tablet, as always.

for any other juno zeta enjoyers

It is done!! The Locked Tomb animatic-ish set to Fences by Paramore!! Hope u like it, and thanks for watching 🖤

(spoilers for gtn and htn)

Holy shit, this is a masterpiece!

Nah son, I'm this old

Me, an ancient entity transcending time and space:

Mane you said this was a booby trap!!! Aint no titties in here this is a pit of spikes I’m bleeding everywhere the fuck!!!

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention

this post is from THIS YEAR

had to fact check and holy shit 2020 really has been 3 years long.

Happy one year anniversary little thread

happy 2 year anniversary, it’s been 3849493 years actually

What the fuck I coulda sworn I made this 10 years ago

yeah no whoever was dating that wasn’t looking at the right version of the post, the original’s from october 2017

You telling me someone gaslit me on my own post?

Not sure if I will ever finish this so here goes the WIP❤️

Heyyy tis me agane

Have a consolation Ianthe

@gideonthe9

Sewing is hard but fuck sleeves in particular