Marisa Papen swims nude with sharks off the coast of Hawaii (2021)

Photography by Benjamin Ono

Some lighting studies from 2018

got a couple of questions on ig about how i choose colors and i spent way too long putting these together so!! here’s a small color picking guide 🎨✨

hopefully this’ll be helpful to someone, but really i think the most important thing is having fun and experimenting to find what you like best!

I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.

(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)

Been a while since I made one of these, but here’s a quick thing about glow. Counterintuitively, you don’t have to make the image super bright to convey that something is glowing.

Coyote with a severely broken jaw that poorly healed. Would have lived the rest of his life with his tongue hanging out. (Instagram)

Light and Shading Tutorial

This breaks it down a bit more toward the level I need

good tutorials are few and far between ( a lot of artists seem to get caught up in the superficial trappings of portraiture rather than the nitty gritty fundamentals), but these breakdowns by Bryan Lee are just fantastic.  Super applicable tips and tricks, no matter your personal technique/approach.

Value comp! Value comp! Value comp!

Same place, different day.

Awesome color study

fantasy adventure genre vs survival horror genre

a collection of things i wrote about color. these aren’t necessarily “tutorials", just things i’ve discovered that work for me and might help others. i’m still learning.

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this