Sometimes I need the obvious spelled out for me. Especially in terms of work approach in art. Many thanks :ɪ <333
[quote=“Shopkeeper, post:438, topic:4055”]After doing some regular file clearing while digging through my old stuff I found a trio of maps I made a long while back for a fictional nation building website. Given this is among the only artistic things I’ve ever made, just thought I’d share.
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For the love of god, give me a link to that site 
Nice, I spent many, many, many… ugh too many hours in campaign cartographer about 10 years ago for a DnD campaign I was running (unfortunately I haven’t the slightest idea where the maps are now), what’d you use for the maps?
I drew another of those knights
Sorry, still no menacing spiked armor, but abyss magic comes kinda close I would think.
oh cool she looks like she is about to lose her mind and go psycho psychic dark magic killer on everyone. Into the void with you mortals!
I been translating old oc’s into that one show’s style
definitely safer than doing actual dark magic, yup. If I did though, it’d be to make a deal where my tablet and I stop fighting one another constantly. I would seriously consider trading my soul for that.
YOU PEOPLE ARE POSTING AWESOME STUFF. LOOK AT JOHN’S COLORS. LOOK AT THAT CUTE FACE OF PTH.
Also, you reminded me to post this here! It was for a contest so i worked on it a lot.
Oh shit, THAT COMPOSITION. Gives me a sort of Binding of Isaac feel, namely the implied murder. The style itself is not like anything I can compare! Super cool.
Also John pls teach me how you choose them colour pallettes. I want. XD
Thanks a lot! At the end i thought it was too dark and ended up giving it a nicer description for the composition, to contrast the “all detailed all murdery” drawings.
“A grimataur lurks under our house.
His name is Franquitious Biralasquious The Third.
We call him Frank.
He is pretty scary, but we ended up making an agreement. As he needed a place to stay, he would live in that hole and he wouldn’t eat our souls. Pretty handy. Sometimes, when he is in a good mood, he bakes cookies for us.”
StopSignal: I really like the amount of little details the upper room!
Lots of tiny details are my one weakness.
Uhh I wouldn’t know how to explain it. I just started with purple/yellow contrast:
Then I eyeballed the rest by painting over that with a low opacity brush. (Used the same colors of the knight I posted above as reference)
Tried to pick higher saturation and slightly different hues for the bright stuff?
Hopefully that is some small degree of useful 
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Also, I don’t know what show has that style, but what I can say is that I think it fits Edmund character pretty well!
I always colour stuff by just… colouring everything individually?? Going in with 1-2 starting colours seems like a smart way to set the tone for the pic overall. I can indeed use that! I never remember to bother with lighting/composition as something that work together. I think I can work with this B: thanks!
Always use contrasting colors! And remember, you can NEVER, EVER go wrong with orange and blue.
See my drawing? Warm and cold color. Orangish brown and blue. And how to make the things i want to stand out actually stand out? Well, the two people there have orange clothes, which contrast in the blue background. And the monster? well, it’s got the blue light over it. Also, the horn is a blueish white, which helps. I could have made the people’s clothes orangish black but i totally forgot. Also i could have made a blueish gray for the monster but i decided to just make the face part stand out.
Mmmh, colour theory. I always forget about colour theory. XD
Why has this not been promoted to art law yet? Or something more all powerful sounding?
Man, as much as I’d like more POWERFUL ART TITLES - art is subjective. Making a law for something fundamental to a subjective craft would just - oh man. Making people do impossible tasks is a great way to incite pure nerd rage. XD
Art is subjective?
Pthalocy! Turn back! That path leads to modern art!
Thats not art. Thats an just a way for playboys to show off how much they can spend on nothing and still not give any shits…or only buy shit in the case of Artist’s Shit. Or for right wing nutjobs to show off just how red-taped/self deluding they have built their own minds to be. Its possibly the most wasteful art their is, how to give meaning to the void of meaningful meaning.
I would even claim some of those are actually foul play to launder money or evade taxing.
I should do art.
[quote=“Logrin, post:456, topic:4055”]Art is subjective?
Pthalocy! Turn back! That path leads to modern art![/quote]
Haha, I remember one time, a friend wanted texture/photo material to use and reference in a picture they were making. They were making a book cover for a twisted murder mystery that involved jars of ‘mystery’ meat. I took it as a dare to make the grossest thing I could muster up.
I wound up posting the resulting mason jar full of red-stained water, dirt grit, chicken bones and mangled yellow flesh to DA as a sort of joke. She needed the fullsize files anyway, but it got a lot of views???
I don’t understand art either but apparently I can make it. If I can find where the original photos went, I’ll link 'em under a spoiler for laughs.