Chinese Hanfu By 萳歌-

Her’s some more Big Hero 6 concept art.  I worked on the sets for the Campus Tech building and the interior labs of the “Nerd School”.  It was always part of Hiro’s story that he was a genius kid, but messy.  The top drawing is for the Lab he shared with Tadashi in an earlier form of the story, and the bottom is his horribly cluttered desk space.  In an earlier version of this drawing he had manga pinned up, but it got changed to bees and ants.   Supposedly he’s studying bees and ant colonies as part of his microbot research.

and they were roommates

i forgot to post this yesterday but I watched the movie and IMMEDIATELY dropped everything to open my tablet 

Watercolour paintings by Chinese artist Guo Made (b. 1957)

basically

to the ones that encouraged me

🌹👻 happy (belated) halloween!

Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam. 

“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.

 A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”

me and friends were joking in a discord server and i ended up making a danganronpa animatic of the magic school bus intro, enjoy

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!

taking kema’s ninth year prince nickname a little too literally