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Tag: color

the flag mafia has a gun to my head send help

Posted on February 4, 2023 by Cal

i may have a problem. or maybe it’s only a problem if I address it?? but the might I wielded before was nothing compared to this new dark power I have discovered. behold! it’s really interesting how many flags are
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mens suits are a proven cure for insomnia

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Cal

i understand that this blog is becoming a fashion one more with each passing day but what are you gonna do I suppose. mens suits suck. they are the same thing over and over again with nearly no variety. in
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, boring, character, clothes, color, concept, concept art, design, history, men, outfit, suit, suits
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Flags 3

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Cal

got pretty hung up on stylized comets and planets with rings on this one. when doing comic concept I always try to do most of it in B&W. I didn’t used to but I learned my lesson. things always manage
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(quiet clothes?) LOUD CLOTHES???

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Cal

how classy should we go? how loud? how casual? again, design trends are pretty independent of when or where you live. some fashion trends could easily have happened centuries before or after they did in real life. even if i
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At a glance

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Cal

I find silhouettes and shapes just as important as detail. Silhouettes can be tough for me to integrate into the background and still make it look good. always learning. I find a lot of these have interesting shapes which can
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Clothes makes the man

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Cal

I really do like drawing and designing clothes. which is kind of odd since I don’t care at all how I dress in real life. playing with shapes, playing with ideas, the norm. trying to make believable designs that I
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We can take it further

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Cal

some of these had specific design goals in mind, but most are just experimentation to see what I like and what I could potentially use. the colors are interesting, but I need to constantly keep in mind what they will
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boring scifi outfits zzzzzzz

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Cal

I have ideas for a multitude of different time periods in mind for the comic world. as I mentioned earlier in the thread, technology doesn’t progress in the same pattern in Motherland as it did in our world. they invent
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Rene outfittery snazzle bedazzle

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Cal

doing some other art stuff for jobs in real life so haven’t had too much focus for the comic as of late. still gonna be slow going. if only we had some snappy clothes to make the wait less painful—-
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The tragedies of colorblindness, part 2

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Cal

the wife helps with color schemes a lot lmao. color helps but it’s not really my thing. doesn’t really excite me and i don’t think in color. kinda sucks cause I think it would help differentiating the characters but B&W
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