Blast from the not so far back past. @cbrxxrider boat and two shipyard cuties. @herbsdulac @mermaiddana
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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.
This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)
If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!
Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...
Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!
You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!
Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!
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More of them bc erm well (explodes) ((I can't think too hard about the first one or else I'll black out)) (((it appeals to my need for a man to be almost like a loyal rabid dog for another man)))
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this isn't your average everyday darkness...😨
[ID: watercolor study of a frame from spongebob squarepants, showing him waiting at the rock bottom bus stop with his glove world merch.]
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OMG THAT PAINTING OF THE LIKE,,,, SECRET KISS ON THE STAIR WAY????? VASCO AND MACHETE CORE
That one I know, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, from 1864!
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I think its a nice collection of beautiful women with lovely curves! @itswhatienjoy
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I love this painting (The Cyclops by Odilon Redon) but it kind of scares the shit out of me. It has a very dreamlike quality and also I have a lot of dreams about giant things pursuing me/watching me so it's a distressing combo (again, love it.)
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