eli !

I owe everything to the friends I had who were a decade older than me when I was 22 and just learning how to function as an adult on my own, and now I get to pay it forward to my other young adult friends.

dungeon meshi pokemon au that has been rattling in my head

EDIT: part 2, kabru and mithrun

Ty having a Certified Horse Girl Moment 

(These two are from my lesbian cowboy gang comic that I just finished)

summer gideon because *unintelligible noises*

ECCC IS IN A WEEK AND A BIT GET HYPE!!!! BEST TIME OF THE YEAR!!!!!💚 MONSTERFUCKER ALLEY RIDES AGAIN!!!! YEEHAW!!!!

I'm gonna be at booth k-24 with the LOVELY hrtbrokengen, with NEW BOOKS!! AND PRINTS!! and some Tomiko things cause duh it's me

Also joining us are @fawnduu, @renstrapp, @gipki, @catskullery, and @reefshrk! A true powerhouse gauntlet!!

Stop by from February 29 - March 3 to say hi! Can't wait to meet people and have a blast!!

YUUUUURRRRR

a giant, glass shattering noise comes from the sky that is unmistakably the smash bros announcer saying “KING DEDEDE”. it makes headlines worldwide and people are scared. scientists find that the source of the noise was a dead star 2.7 billion light years away

Karsus' legacy

“you’re so sensitive” i was born with a poet’s soul. bitch

‘The Bookworm’ by Hermann Fenner-Behmer, c. 1906.

A Proper Author Hat

watching someone in your notes go through your entire catalogue of work

every rejection, every disappointment

I had the uncontrollable urge to animate a skeleton breakdancing so here is Harrow animating a skeleton breakdancing

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!

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.