#i stare for hours

[jonathanbiers]

he's trying very hard. but once a bitch, always a bitch

#stedit #strangerthingsedit #steveharringtonedit #steve harrington #stranger things #* #*gifs #usertez #usertiny #userridge #i need to wake up in not very many hours but here i am hfjkd #staring at his face..........

[gaeaeagle]

happy april 13th!

#hermitcraft #i will not be tagging this as homestuck #i spent half an hour staring at those lil guys n i still dont know what their deal is #gaea scribbles

[oh-wow-im-still-here]

Luo Binghe pov fics that have him be amused or confounded by his silly shizun are the best actually. I know his rose tinted glasses of affection are basically opaque, but you cannot tell me the silly goofy wackiness that is shen yuan does not peak through and throw binghe off his rhythm at times. During his disciple days he definitely thought "he's so smart and yet so dumb at the same time. Is anyone gonna take care of him?" And didnt wait for an answer.

#when he first started living in the bamboo house and would watch sqq stare at the wall for hours in bafflement #or seeing all the times sqq trips or breaks smth #that man is not tidy AT ALL either #it paints an interesting picture for binghe during his first week living in the side room #“well now i GOTTA make all his meals do all his laundry clean his house do his paperwork pick out his clothes brush his hair--” #svsss #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #scum villain's self saving system

[kuronekoartsblog]

It’s like burning.

#everywhere i go i see his face #husk stares at it for hours #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin art #hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #hazbin husk #angel dust #husk #huskerdust #huskerdust fanart #art #digital art #my art #clip studio paint #meme redraw

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

#not art #dungeon meshi #rant #i'm someone who can get obsessive over colors in my own art #will stare at the screen adjusting hues/saturation for hours #luckily i've gotten faster at color picking #but yeah modern anime's color design is saddening to me. the general trend leans towards white/grey desaturated palettes #simply because they're easier to pick digitally #this is not the colorists fault mind you. the anime industry's problems are also labor problems. artists are severely underpaid #and overworked. colorists literally aren't paid enough to do their best #there isn't a “creative drought” in the anime industry. this trend is widespread across studios purely BECAUSE it's not up to individuals #until work conditions improve anime will unfortunately continue to miss its fullest potential visually #don't even GET ME STARTED ON THE USE OF POST-PROCESSING FILTERS AND LIGHTING IN ANIME THOUGH #SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK. I HATE LENS FLARES I HATE GRADIENT SHADING I HATE CHROMATIC ABBERATION AND BLUR

[4ndeka]

these guys are outrageously fun to draw

#literally was supposed to be a warm up #several hours later... #hazbin hotel #alastor #niffty #charlie morningstar #angel dust #husk #sir pentious #egg bois #how obvious is it that sir pent is my fave LOL #vaggie #yes i gave alastor a tail #yes niffty is staring right at it

[1-800-hellyeah]

A silly comic commission from @the-triangle-cat !! Based on this text post

#murder drones #uzi murder drones #v murder drones #uzi doorman #md uzi #md v #the amount of detail in this still floors me #they went above and beyond <3 #i can stare at this for hours ngl

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

#I didn’t even plan to use this audio LMAO #it worked ig I just added words #hijack #jackycup #it’s so wild yall car trips fuck me up cuz what do u mean I slept 4 hours straight and now there’s snow #IN CALI?? #ate some bomb ass food tho while filming and my sis just stared at me the whole time 😔 #ig that’s how ​toofthelss greets people LMAO #expressions are fun #I may not animatic but I can sure hope and dream #if u see this no u didn’t #a little loopy it’s fine yall #edit: omgf ITS SO SHAKY I AM ASHAMED #TY FOR LIKING THIS BUT ALSO WOW DO I KINDA HAYE IT #😔 it’s ok I’ll just dig a hole and lay down for a while it’s fine

[salamispots]

I swear this is the last version/edit I'll make to the little cooking pot drawing haha

#totk #fandom feels #sometimes you stare at a drawing hours later and then go #oh wait what if I tried this other thing here #muffled laugh #sketchbook stuff #the second version's technically on insta; I just wanted to design the smoke cloud more + some minor tweaks #also I wanna practice drawing food more : 0

[eldrtchmn]

Crowley 🐍

#wip #crowley #good Omens #fanart #my art #eldrtchmn #Crawley #the demon crowley #Good Omens 2 #actually it is done but I have to stare at it a few hours to discover that every pixel is wrong #and I don't even like it #but I spent so much time on it #😵‍💫

[obsob]

beloved!!!

#neither of these characters r women >:3 #mine #fan art #rote #fitz and the fool #fitzloved #realm of the elderlings #i was screaming reading golden fool let me tell you that. 'you thought i was bringing you flowers?' fitz what if i bit you #i am on . fools fate now. oh dear #after this im gonna. wait a long time before reading fitz and fool trilogy...good lord #also. u would not believe the amount of GRIEF. this drawing gave me. ive been staring at colour variations for like an hour #th pose is based off an Artus Scheiner drawing i saw n was like. thats fitzloved #i hvent read liveship traders i know i know. smite me down. listen. i dont care for boats i really dont. #i started reading it n was like i dont respect any of these people and then. stopped skdfbsdk #anyway. why is it 30 degrees. relax. its cooler next week thank god. this better b th last of th heat or im gna start biting

[donttellunclesam]

their love language is quality time

(close ups under the cut)

#stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #stobin #stranger things fanart #they just......spend so much time together #literally attached at the hip #this isn't new but gahdamn was i in my feels drawing this #this and the camp counselor post really just let me spend hours staring at them and deciding how they blend together #also peep the fnaf reference. i really need a fix of those two being there for the bite of 87 #also DO NOT ASK WHY their faces look so different in each one. Don't. I'm sensitive. #dtus art

[egophiliac]

Do yoy like their silly little dance

the inside of my brain at any given moment:

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #gif warning #gifs that bop along to your music warning #gidel is SO little #look at him compared to everyone else! #three apples tall! #i could put him in my pocket and still have space to pack him a lunch #this rhythmic is so silly. i love when we get a cutesy upbeat rhythmic right before everything goes straight to shit. #fellow and gidel: (dance around all cutely and throw confetti) #fellow and gidel: anyway now it's time to sell you #just the most adorable little kidnappers 🩷 #so glad they made an official gidel chibi because otherwise i would have tried to and it would not have ended well #i'm trying to do a meleanor right now and she is giving me enough trouble. she doesn't even have any STRIPES. #do you think the riggers got handed the designs for this event with all the stripes and swirlies and patches and patterns #and just had to go stare at a wall for an hour or two #'okay look people are going to see this on a small screen with a rhythm game going on in the foreground' #'nobody is going to take a high-res screen recording and then go through it frame-by-frame to scrutinize our rigging breakdowns' #'what kind of HUGE NERD do you think plays this stupid game' #(shifty eyes)

[duckshuffled]

⚠️ severe weather! ⚠️

bonus worth 100 dollar

#ttcc #toontown corporate clash #corporate clash #rainmaker #misty monsoon #hi. pretend it didn't take me 4 months to post anything ok? #i finally got around to making a design for misty (challenge because i never draw humans) and wanted something to show for it #and then i spent way too many hours staring at this canvas. free me #aside from that i am really proud of how this turned out it was a lot of new things for me. so yay! #i am also happy with their design in a full piece. it's not very different but i liked looking up weather-related instruments anyway #umm go see pearl squidslugs for more of this design bug beat me to it. ok smile #my art

[dozydawn]

#could stare at this dress for hours #i probably have #martha plimpton #gowns #fashion #ron galella #1989 #1980s #fave fashion #1k

[hitwiththetmnt]

Did an art trade with @idiot-mushroom and LOOK AT MY BOY!

#I NEED TO BOOP THAT SNOOT #I love this-I will be staring at it for the next hour as I carry on about my day stumbling into shit because I’m staring at this #the hair - the eyes - the pose - the color - just ajdhakhejwjfbrhrh #art trade #tmnt #rottmnt leo #rottmnt #tmnt dragons #tmnt spitfire #the hits