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All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

#useful art resources #not my art #i try and add alt text to as much of my stuff as i can #if somethings missing ask me and ill add it

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For those it may concern, deviantart did something to break my fixed image links so all my AO3 pic fics from before 2022 were empty.

It is fixed now, so anyone who either wants to check their own works for something similar, or browse such hits as:

'Really Scruffy Wonder Woman comic with light polyamory'

'Miss Fisher Lesbians but it's mostly just an excuse to make vintage postcards'

'Cordelia the Movie Poster starring Villaneve'

and

'Untitled Goose Game/Among us crossover'

...you can!

#dunno how many of you lot also care about my fan art on ao3 #this started as a fan art blog MAnY dinosaurs ago #but here #also if any of you use deviant art links to host on ao3 even the permalink ones may be broken. go check it

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reblog to get booped

#my art #dinosaurs #get booped #happy trans day of visibility for yesterday while were at it #boop

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“Notes on skirts and pants”

Source: miyuli on twitter

#not my art #useful art resources #fabric draping

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PSA: Mapmaking / cartographic brushes for Photoshop

I just want to point people at these (which are beautifully made and organized!) from @kmalexander.

I'm working in a different idiom of mapmaking at the moment—more USGS-modeled than anything else, as the ultimate goal is constructing a whole alternate-Earth planet that'll look good viewed from space— but these would be fabulous for other things. And they're CC0-licensed, and free!

If you're at all into digital mapmaking, particularly for imagery meant to go with fantasy or historical works, you should have a look at these.

#not my art #useful art resources #brushes #digital brushes

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I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

#not my art #useful art resources #useful art references #birds

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WRONG BLOG WRONG BLOG

The Kate Middleton mysteries, as channelled by Emery Robin (from here):

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Also Javelin program: "Ignore that rail gun. And that radio tower. ex- radio tower."

I don't know what this one is. But it seems like Javelin wouldn't blow anything up so that's good.

#ttou spoilers #i KNEW this one was a good one and then 80 CHAPTERS LATER #its all coming together

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The Kate Middleton mysteries, as channelled by Emery Robin (from here):

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I drew this nine months ago (ie. pride month and no one masking). but i guess it's versatile

#my art #currently #undescribed #Will try and do in morning

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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!

#not my art #useful art references

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two (2) people asked how i did the matchbook thing so take this

this is just a simple idea but if you spend some more time you can get real krazy with it:

making fake prints is so fun please do it immediately free resources under cut xoxo

retrosupply my love

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wire tutorial for a friend

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Where can you find free AdorkaStock poses? I SHALL TELL YOU! AdorkaStock.com has a free gallery that gets ~3 new poses every week. You can sign up to get weekly or monthly email digests of the new poses, too. Tumblr! You are here! I post poses from time to time. There's no regular schedule, I'm a disaster princess. Bsky - I post poses here! At random. Behold my chaos. Old DeviantArt Archive - while I would eventually like to get everything onto my own site and off DA, there's still thousands of images in this gallery for now. Patreon - there's a TON of free stuff on my Patreon! You can sort by the Free tag to find them and you can also browse my Archive Post. You can sign up to get free stuff there, too. ♥

#not my art #useful art resources #references

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How to turn off AI Training of your content on Web and Mobile:

On a Web Browser:

I had some trouble finding this option. My first instinct was to click the settings button on the left, but that's where it is!

First, you'll click the name of your blog on the left sidebar to bring it up on your browser.

Then click "Blog settings" on the right sidebar once your blog is brought up. That's where they're hiding it.

Click "Prevent Third-Party Sharing" under the Visibility section, and bam! You're done.

On Mobile:

Thankfully it's much easier on mobile. Just click the Gear icon on your blog's page, to go to settings.

Scroll all the way down until you see Visibility, then toggle the Prevent third-party sharing option for your blog!!

If you disable this setting on mobile, it automatically synced it to my web browser settings, too. ...But if you use both Web and Mobile, I would still highly recommend double checking that it actually turned off on both!!

Check that it's turned off on your side blogs too! And check your settings every now and then anyway to ensure that it's staying turned off, because if my memory serves right, some other websites will pull some shenanigans on things like this and opt you back in without telling you!

Leave Feedback on New Features at Tumblr Support Here!! Let Staff know however we can that having our content fed to AI at their whim is unacceptable.

And if you have the option to poison your art with Nightshade or Glaze, keep it up!!