Omg He Opened The Ask Box...

they both just wanna protect their babies :(

RW art month late day 1: noodlefly

Siren

(very old oc art)

random oc sketches, Zither yet again

(im not dead i'm having an artstyle crisis i dont have anything presentable enough to post rn)

just some sketches of me in the 1940's aesthetic~ I love love these new brushes I made they so yummy grgrgr

Aventurine and Dr. Ratio sketch!!

Old Argenti fanart

AWW scug full of soup🫵🫵

the base colour really does end up being a big part of the whole colours and that's kinda on purpose. to me, it helps keep the colours more harmonious, it keeps the whole thing having a similar vibe

you could try to put more opaque colours over the base colour, or try putting colours over the base colour with a different brush.

for choosing the base colour(and most other colours), I kinda try to think about what colour palette I want my drawing to have. like I'll decide, "I want this whole thing to be very blue, I'm gonna make the base colour blue, the shadows more purple and the highlight's more cyan", i only do this when im drawing pretty dramatic lighting tho

when I don't have lighting that dramatic, I choose it based on the colours of the thing I'm drawing, like a slugcat, they're mostly white so i'd choose a pastel colour. I try to pick a base colour similar in darkness to the colour of the thing(light=lighter base colour, dark=darker base colour)

(I think about both of these things when I'm choosing my base colour, I just consider one or the other more depending on how dramatic the lighting is)

lots of time when I'm drawing the base colour is also too visible for me so I put filters over it till its closer to the colours I want.

also, often when I'm drawing I put swatches of the colours I'm using next to the drawing. so when the base colour is shining though to much I just go over it again with the colour

they're like these little dots of colour so I can colour pick them easily

this was a stage of my watcher art, the colours look way different then they do in the finished thing. I accidentally made the base colour too light and didn't put the colours over it opaque enough, so I put filters over it to make it darker. in most of my drawings the colours look pretty different when I stared to when it's finished

Remember that you don't have to listen to this exactly tho! ^^ experiment however you want with your art lol

@willjelly my attempt at replicating ur style!! :D How do u go about ur colors, and choosing your base color, because the base ends up being the whole main thing

random OC doodle that got out of hand

(OC: Zither)

TYY

I have a tendency to diy brushes, my main rending brush is a VERY modified chalk brush, it looks like this lol

I don't use the less pen pressure = less opacity thing with this one cause I mostly paint with it and the colour mixing setting I have do a similar effect

generally 99% of the brushes I use have texture, idk why, makes my art crunchy I like how it looks lol

I made a few like, tutorial pages?(idk what to call these) with my main brushes and a bit of an explanation of how I use them :)

(you have to zoom in to see this stuff properly, I hope the quality is not too bad lol)

+ extra notes

tbh I'm honoured that someone would try to recreate part of my artstyle XD. take what you want from this, i hope it helps :D

Bri hOW do you get the lighting and effects that you want?? Genuinely it’s delicious and I need to know how you do it

uh so the thing is I started writing an answer to this and realized there's a lot I could explain but I don't want this post to be ridiculously long, you just can dm me if you wanna know more :]

SO in short, For the lighting I put a lot of gradient map and tone curve filters over my base colours. Idk what program you use, but I use CSP(clip studio paint), these are the particular filters that I use:

I think most programs have these? ik procreate and ibis have some but I haven't used other programs in ages sorry haha

you can just google if your program has them and how to use them :)

for the effects, I just mess around with stuff till it looks good ig??

idk, I don't really have a set way I do the effects, but I can talk about some stuff I do

I only use airbrushes with textures, so that how I get glowing effects to look like they do

if I want something to really glow I use colour dodge or add(glow) as blending mode on the layer

If I want an effect to be especially vibrant, I use vivid light, colour dodge and glow dodge

Also what exactly do you mean with "effects"? you asked this after my last post, so I assume that post prompted this question. like do you mean the big 4 pointed spark? the gold effects ring in the background?? the voidspawn? the wobbly portal thing?? I can explain how I did those things, I just don't know exactly what counts as an effect lol

ALSO also, ty for the compliment <3

Ancient people in the mural and slugcat.

It's interesting to imagine the size of the Slugcat with the ancients during their lifetime.