color studies 17 April 2024 — apo nattawin (pop edition)
timelapse below the cut (original sketches here)
wanted to play around with various styles and apo's skintone because i struggle with color and color pallettes on a good day but add in skin tones, and i feel like i'm going bonkers.
i especially love playing with unusual backgrounds and line art, so that was what i explored here. making an outlandish color choice in the hair or line art and then working to balance that choice into something cohesive.
obviously inspired by andy warhol's pop art, the watermelon colored apo was directly based on one of his marilyn monroe prints.
🍄 🐸 🌷 🥀 🐌 // poison garden // gouache on hot press paper
everything pictured in this piece is a poison: henbane in blue, belladonna in green, amanita muscaria in red, rosy bonnet in pink, lily of the valley, strawberry poison dart frogs, hickory tussock moth & caterpillar, ladybug. not the snails, though! they're just hanging.
[id: an illustrative gouache painting on a dark background. lush intertwined botanicals with textured blue and green leaves weave between red, white, and pink flowers. red frogs and ladybugs perch on stems, colorful pink and red mushrooms burst from the ground, and a moth hangs off a leaf. snails stroll quietly over the tops of mushrooms and along the ground. /end id]
I didn't think Mold Sprites could get this big? It's looking at us, do you think we should run?
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Watercolor, acryla gouache, white pen and a little colored pencil and grey copic fine liner on Arches watercolor board. 2.5"x3.5" ACEO format, matted to 4"x6".
Make something quick'n'dirty (keep it short, keep it rough).
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Say "remix" next to the @ mention or in tags if you welcome others to create something inspired by your piece!
Remix Challenge
Your prompt this week is simple: remix!
Reminder: A remix doesn't have to be a direct extension of a quick'n'dirty creation. A remix can simply be taking inspiration from a qnd creation, or it can be inspired by just about anything, not just what's on this blog!
Remixable Roundup, Weeks 1-5
These are all the remixable creations from March and April (and it includes pretty much every qnd creation so far). Consider using these as a starting point. 🤩
Remix Chains
* Note: I am not listing each individual remix in a chain, but you can use any single creation as your jumping off point.
the bread sex incident (punchlove-blog, vanillalipstick66, @blingblingbubbles, mortimerlatrice, dr-lemurr)
a very hum bar songkran (luckydragon10, nuwildcat, dr-lemurr)
Art
beach scene (lady-guts) and this is the first ever qnd!
white rabbit kinn (mortimerlatrice)
the truck at sunset environment study (mortimerlatrice)
smol chay (dr-lemurr)
all tied up and nowhere to go (mortimerlatrice)
kimchay for asexuality day (dr-lemurr)
makeup tricks with tay and porsche (mortimerlatrice)
Fic
kim and tankhun scene (punchlove-blog)
kinn's one-night stand (artpo)
kinn and porsche vacation (blingblingbubbles)
kinn and porsche and kisses (mousydentist)
big's sacrifice (@shubaka)
arm gets a surprise vacation (artpo)
mafia mistress (airgiodslv)
shoot me while I'm happy (@liliblaukatz)
bad bet headcanon for kimchay (punchlove-blog)
beach reunion (@lori0018)
Podfic
oral notfic slumber party truth or date (airgiodslv)
in yellow (airgiodslv)