#I love color! I love symbolism!

[ofswordsandpens]

directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.

#I love color! I love symbolism! #blue lighting in night scenes I long for your return

[luniise-kel]

very self indulgent comic :3

(I did a breakdown of this comic here!)

((so im putting up a disclaimer bc a lot of people have been slightly freaky about this comic so 1. this is based on a personal experience and 2. some of you guys are thinking its sad for the wrong reasons. yes, its sad and yes its with akechi but, yall r making this out to be the saddest thing to ever do. i explained it in the breakdown but hes just practicing his smile emote. i dont normally like to tell people how to interpret my shit but please dont be too weird about it! again think about this however you want but kept in mind i know a lot of people (myself included) who have done this exact thing. oki ty

tl;dr: comic is sad! akechi isnt faking a smile! pls dont be weird about it!))

#goro akechi #futaba sakura #p5 morgana #persona 5 fanart #p5r fanart #p5 fanart #i love goro akechi #hes so fujiduhsjidhf #maybe ill do a breakdown of all the symbols/what the colors mean in this comic #perhaps if popular demand demands it #luniise art #comic

[deeva-arud]

So, about that one AU that's been marinating in my mind for years

#'second canvas will be just simple sketches' *half cleans sketches* *adds base color* *adds shading* *adds bg* WHY AM I LIKE THIS 😭​ #anyway- you know how the flower that gave Rapunzel her powers (and also the Kingdom) is associated with the sun? #well. here it's the opposite bc Deeva is moon coded! :] #Gotta love the fact that her wings emphasize the bird in a cage symbolism.... #Ofc she doesn't have much experience flying in this AU since Mother Gothel forbid her from going outside #Talking about Mother Gothel... it's Azul HGSAHD #at first I thought maybe Vil or Crewel? but since the character later kinda makes a deal w the twin thieves it fitted him more(?) #Also yes. Cater's alias is Cameron Mägi bc... Mägi Cameron..... Magicam.... 💀​💀​ #it doesn't sound as cool as Flynn Rider but honestly I didn't know what to call him LMAO #I'll be back w this AU someday! I still haven't drawn the iconic lantern scene!!!! #twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland oc #twst oc #twst cater #deeva twst #cateeva #my art

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

#tomgreg #succession #dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel #and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited #so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate) #im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen #thats the kind of person i am #dont look at me (lying on the floor) #okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting.. #i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow.. #greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included) #greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor #i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg #only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual #oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before #but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine #i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh kairi #kh xion #kh namine #i don't really feel proud of my own stuff usually but #i really think this is the drawing i'm most proud of from this past year!! it made me think 'oh maybe i can draw' haha #i'm still kinda bad with colors but something clicked with this one. and i feel like i got the sentimental feeling i wanted! #ooh but this project's about flower symbolism so ramble incoming: #protea symbolizes resilience transformation and diversity; hollyhock means 'please remember me.' #so my general theme was finding a sense of self. #these 3 have struggled with finding their own identity; they tend to get left behind both in-universe and in general plotwise #and naminé and xion both resemble kairi and were overshadowed by her memory. but i feel like all 3 have transformed into their own people #xion and naminé have their faces covered partially by hollyhock to show their wish to be remembered for who they are- #instead of the parts that they share with someone else #and the protea bouquets show how they each held on and resiliently grew into their own person despite it all #i put a little swervy path on the hill behind kairi to give that hopeful sense of growth and moving forward. it's a little hard to see #hopefully that makes sense! i really love symbolism but i think in visuals so i'm really bad with words #but gosh working with everyone on this project was so fun. it was like impossible not to get swept up by the team's hype for this zine #i need to hunt down everybody's work and rb it #ohh and everybody's flowers are so crisply drawn it's insane!! i think if i lined all these flowers and leaves i'd die haha #fan art #my art #project stuff

[tubbytarchia]

Somewhere in the woods, a moth tires of seeking light

#gempearl #shinyduo #shiny duo #not meant to be shipping propaganda for the poll but I mean... feel free to take it as such!! #the solitary plants feel out of place and maybe the color gradients could be better but its fineeeeeee. Not my proudest background... #also haha get it. Moth tires of seeking light. There's light all around her but its symbolic you guys #vaguely inspired by an estonian song. Some of the lyrics: #Luck pat her little girl’s head and repeated that beautiful is everything that there is #The girl then smiled and that was enough for her heart to understand where the sun lay #one of my favorite songs ever. Very beautiful and Id love to make an animatic or smth for it but the lyrics get a bit too specific :( #Shame that its in estonian and probably offputting to a lot of people too but.... õnn ja arm by mari pokinen....... #hermitshipping #commission #centaur cuddles tee hee <3 #horses etc cant actually twist their bodies that much without it hurting them I think. But please suspend your disbelief for me pleasee #tubby art

[kokoasci]

finally drew the main doa together :>

#i love using symbolism in my art :D #first full bsd background wowee how did i use to to do this like every week #ok so im going to be like extremely real right now. i hate the colors and this piece in general #its probably because ive spent so long on it and im still not happy with it BUT ive worked on it for so long that i think its worth sharing #also doesnt help that i did this background with like no references. dont do that please #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd nikolai gogol #sigma #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd art #bsd fanart #bsd fyodor #sigma bsd #kokoart

[hensel-x]

yet another fnaf thing from last year cause let me tell you I Loved the interpretation of william afton obliterating a child out of obsessive gay jealousy 

#my art #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #willry #william afton #henry emily #I LOVE YOU COLOR SYMBOLISM #he's getting progressivly more purple while turning 'evil' #because he's purple g-- *gets shot in the head* #also they match in colors in the second one #(henry's wearing purple under his clothes for reasons--) #also the charlie's green on will's vest in the last one #cause he. yeah.

[tomatoart]

it ate my soul and left my body

#trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun 1998 #vash #knives #I just think the death of their harmony together is so interesting that it’s like . as if a whole person died #tearing each other apart from being one but it doesn’t erase being connected.. or something symbolic like that idk I tried to convey that #also plantc*st freaks get the fuck off my shit LOL I hate you it’s not for u!!!!! #their relationship as brothers is so important to me I really love it dearly heee heee… *breaks all my bones* ok #also caption is Float On by good tiger I love their music . lol HI. ok bye #no new color work i forgor to touch them all up

[arielluva]

if only things had been different for you

id under cut

[ID] a digital painting of dahlia hawthorne and iris from ace attorney. their backs are facing each other, with dahlia on the far left of the picture, and iris on the far right. their hair is blowing towards each other, and connecting in the middle. dahlia is looking over her shoulder, with a neutral, but cold, expression. a single tear is falling from her eye, and her loose hair is blowing into her face. her right eye is not visible. white glowing butterflies are flying around her, and she has a noose around her neck. iris is facing sister bikini, who is off screen. iris is also crying, but bikini is wiping away her tears. iris's loose hair is blowing behind her, and out of her face. above dahlia and iris are two drawings of dusky bridge. above dahlia, the bridge shows the silhouettes of valerie hawthorne pointing a gun at terry fawles, who was holding a young dahlia hostage. no details can be seen on the figures. above iris, dusky bridge is on fire. underneath dahlia, there are red dahlias that are dripping blood, and under iris there are some irises. in the center of the picture, dahlia and iris as children are standing side by side. their hair is black and medium length. they have bangs and both twins have a braid going down the side of their head, dahlia's on the right side of her head, and iris' on the left. they are both wearing white dresses, white knee-high socks, and black mary jane shoes. both of their dresses are dirty, with dahlia's being slightly dirtier. [end ID]

#my art #ace attorney #dahlia hawthorne #iris ace attorney #iris hawthorne #it is done.... *collapses* #surprisingly only took me about 4 hours total to finish and not like a week #yippee for random middle of the night motivation!! #also this bad boy can hold so much symbolism #feel free to ask me about the symbolism in this drawing bc id love to talk about it!! especially since i put more than i usually do #felt like i was returning to my symbolism roots from 2020 by drawing flowers... i dont think ive painted a flower since like. 2021 #cw bright colors #<- just in case bc of dahlias highly saturated hair lol #2023

[jyndor]

@pscentral​ event 21: growth

↳ rebelcaptain + long story short

#jyn erso #cassian andor #pscentral #star wars #star wars andor #rogue one #edits** #swedit #swcreators #swcreations #rogueoneedit #jynersoedit #taylor swift #tslyricsedit #long story short I SURVIVED :( #i survived but they didn't #green doesn't just symbolize jealousy babyyy it also symbolizes growth #hence me using it also i just love green #what a color #honestly there are so many lyrics from this song for them #these are just the ones that worked for this gifset #for instance i thought about putting the 'your nemeses' line in there and show krennic getting obliterated by the death star #but it didn't work out #down to the wire lmao #i have done a gifset with this song before but it is not good lmao #also you can see the exact moment where i gave up #its 12:27 and i need to post this

[ink-the-artist]

I watched the new Puss in Boots movie and liked the same character everyone else liked

#during the scene like midway through where hes chasing him through the woods I heard a guy in the theater say 'this guy is cool' #he was right that guy was cool #hes also borzoi shaped #also love the weapons they gave this guy #the two sickles instead of the traditional grim reaper scythe #same symbolism but more original design #art #colored pencil #fan art #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #death #wolf

[panxramic]

Taking Tallulah’s hair color change and inserting as much lore as I can into it. It’s just like when she got the haircut, a feeling of brand new, of moving on and changing. I love it sm

This new island has always been a new step for her, a way for her to move on. She’s left behind old memories and pictures, forgotten letters and homes. She’s finally found herself in a family, a family she’s been dreaming and hoping of. It’s not perfect, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows but it’s HERS, this is her family. She has an older brother she’d do anything for and two dads that love her endlessly. What else could she want?

So she changes her clothes, that’s the first thing she did a while ago. She matches q!Phil’s every step. And she finds things for herself.. Her mushroom beanie is one of the first things she ever got that truly felt like her own. She was made to reflect someone else, but THIS, this is her own. This is something she liked and she wanted, not something the federation threw upon her. She finds a liking to the color purple, and with that she weaves her own clothes to match q!Phil’s. It’s a mix of the person she loves and herself. Because truly who was the person that raised her? The person that has influenced her her entire life and has helped shape who she would become? It’s always been q!Phil. And that’s reflected in her clothes.

And now on this new island she also has a new dad. q!Missa. Who didn’t hesitate to take her in and call her his own. He’s been lovely, and with him she’s nurtured that side of her that’s more artistic and more creative. She also gets to tangle more into her culture and speak Spanish more. Her features match his. They have similar noses and eyes, the same moles on their cheeks. But the one thing that always stood out about Tallulah in the family has been her hair.

Tallulah’s hair has always been brown for as long as she can remember. It's been the one feature that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the family. qPhil and Chayanne have blonde hair, qMissa has black hair. And sometimes Chayanne’s hair also reflects that of q!Missa’s.

Tallulah’s brown hair is the final tie to her past. It’s the one thing that makes her stand out, that shows the world she was destined for somebody else. It haunts her. So… as the final piece of the puzzle… it goes from brown to black.

Her hair is that final tether, and she was ready as ever to let it go, to let go of her past and let go of that pain. She’s moving on. Her hair is as black as qMissa’s, it’s as dark as the night sky. It matches every wither rose they come across. She’s part of the death family, one look at her and you can tell where she belongs.

And she does, for the first time in her life she feels like she belongs.

It’s scary, it is. Her brown hair has been such a huge defining feature of hers for so long. The black hair is a drastic change. What is everyone else gonna say? What are they gonna think? Is it going to look good at all? Who knows, we’ll see, but she’s never been so sure of herself.

This is who Tallulah is. This is who she has become. A person weaved and influenced by those around her, the people she’s spent time with. She’s taken their details and made them her own, she’s become her own person now. No longer is she the image of someone who left her to pick up the pieces no. She’s the image of those who helped her back up, of those who cared for her and watched her grow up to become the very person we see in front of our eyes.

She’s Tallulah. She likes the color purple and she loves animals. She wants to build a sanctuary for birds. She loves her brother Chayanne and she wears her heart on her sleeve. She has black hair and a purple beanie. And she’s a part of death family.

#I do love her brown hair trust but #the symbolism for the black hair ??? #it’s making me go crazy #dw tallulah i support ur color change #tho her hair is black and CURLY #no straight hair here nuh uh #qsmp tallulah #marv rants #tallulah #death family

[afterthelambs]

WHITE RASHOMON TIME

The first time we ever see Akutagawa use rashomon on any other item of clothing except his black coat (in the main manga series), it's this scene.

He uses his shirt, which even Atsushi is surprised by because even if he knows it can happen, this is the first time he (and we the audience) has seen this happen.

And it's so important that rashomon is white in this situation. We all know the symbolism behind red = 'bad' and blue = 'good' (with nuance, since the port mafia has done good before), but black and white is also a significant color scheme. Atsushi's predominant colors are white because he is on the 'good' side, but he has black in his color scheme too because he has that dark past. Meanwhile Akutagawa is predominantly black, but he has some white in his color scheme. He's not pure evil.

The Beast universe leans into this color symbolism heavily, since Akutagawa's color scheme there isn't white but grey. Beast!Aku wasn't as 'good' as main universe Atsushi since he still has that darker mindset that he has to grow out of.

WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO WHITE RASHOMON

The first time we see Akutagawa use Rashomon on any other clothing besides the black coat--the coat that Dazai gave to him as a welcome symbol into the Port Mafia-- he uses his white shirt. And the first time he uses a white rashomon, he didn't use it to attack. It was entirely to sacrifice himself and save Atsushi.

Akutagawa has saved Atsushi many times before obviously. Dragging him off the Moby Dick, working together during the cannibalism arc, etc. But in all those scenarios, he was never putting himself on the line to do it. He either had nothing to lose by saving Atsushi, or mutually benefited from it.

But this time? He knew he was going to die, he knew what it meant, he never intended to be the survivor. And he did it anyway. Some people have theorized that this was still for personal reasons (that he believed this is how he proves his worth to Dazai) but it doesn't change the fact that this was an act purely of saving. It is so fitting that Rashomon was white at that moment.

#if im wrong and aku actually used rashomon as another colored clothing in the main series then someone pls correct me #but from what my tired brain remembers i dont think he has??? #i love bsd's color symbolism. it's blatant but also very rich and meaningful #idk if anyone has pointed this out before but this was my take on it when i reread it #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd akutagawa #akutagawa ryuunosuke #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd spoilers #bsd analysis #my post #bsd atsushi #atsushi nakajima

[luck-of-the-drawings]

AUU FUCK I FORGOT I MADE THIS. it started out as a single little sketch and hten i woke up with glass in my arm. dont look too hard at the lighting. or the lines. or the anything. this whole fuckin episode was so fun HAHAHAH i love skin and terror.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #jrwi riptide spoilers #FUNFACT! I DRAW GILLION WITH SHARP TEETH NORMALLY. DOPPLE GILLY GETS SMOOTH TEETH. DO YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE? #THIS WAS ALSO RLY FUN TO DRAW... i didnt try too hard i just had fun or whatever. i love colors. and limited pallets. HEHEH #i also LOVE TRYING TO INSTILL THAT FEELING OF UNEASE THROUGH THE HUMBLE STILL IMAGE.. the swirls n the MENACING symbols with gill #he gets the reflecty eyes and strange smile. I ALSO LIKE THE LIL LIGHTBULB NEAR CHIP #i think its fun to try to find small images with the intent of communicating another thing happening. like. thinking! cogs and lights #im also happy with the fact that i went with just using the brightest color for the text. i wrestled with speech bubbles for a MINUTE!!! #OH AND ANOTHER FUNFACT. i give gillion very specific coral pattern with 2 points on the first two n 3 points on the last #i reversed that for dopplegilly. just another fucked up little art tactic from little ol me

[weabooii]

New AIBOXES by GreatGRIN! Order today at Azamon.com 👍

#aitsf #kaname date #mizuki date #mizuki aitsf #kuruto ryuki #ryuki aitsf #fanart #aini #ai the somnium files #ai nirvana initiative #I love the characters' expressions in the game so much I would love for them to become nendos PLEASE #but meanwhile I'll have to do it myself... #here 🫴 take them #had a lot of fun doing the colors and thinking about the backgrounds for each box #there's no symbolism there don't worry about it. #Had to do the date/ mizuki overlap expressions too #using the character's histories/ personalities to make proper signatures was really fun too even if they're kinda hard to see in the final