Dino Roller Derby! Thank You Very Much And Please Enjoy :)

LOOK AT MY OCS, BOY

my finale two mass attacks! I wanted to riff off a similar composition and maybe color palette but give them both totally different tones…

characters belong to Jay_Abracadabra, ~Ham_2345, @starfruitd, ~saver, @kidoblivion, ~Apearcity, ~Telecat, ~littlexghost, ~Imperatori, and @strawberri-draws !

the redsole drip 

Ink Artwork by Endre Penovác

i forgot to post this yesterday but I watched the movie and IMMEDIATELY dropped everything to open my tablet 

being really fixated on characters you cannot draw for the life of you is a double edged sword it’s like improvement bootcamp

when the plan with the homie goes a little too well

bonus:

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!

the amount of doodles I did during film crunch instead of locking in on animation is actually embarrassing um. whatever. (scarab flying sfx)