My Blog Is Called "hive" For A Reasonit's Like A Metaphor For My Head, In Which My Thoughts Are Constantly

my blog is called "hive" for a reason it's like a metaphor for my head, in which my thoughts are constantly buzzing just like bees. or wasps. or hornets. constant loud noise that doesn't stop; and that never will.

new ideas, new thoughts, new emotions, they flow, they all flow and i do my best to create a dam.

the dam cracks.

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!

OC artists are so fucking cool. you made up some fellas and now they’re in a world

Fellas how do you deal with this

I'll write more OC lore on the weekends cuz I need to collect my thoughts properly for another rant.

For now, it's gonna be a couple or more of sketch fanarts. For this I need to remember shows and games I like. It requires less brain activity than gathering thoughts about the story I came up with, ahahaha...

Can't promise anything though 🤞

NEXT OC RANT INCOMING!!!

In two hours probably I forgot where I ended the explanation of lore...

Small doodle of Baau and... of whatever is happening in front of her (it's sfw, trust)