First Of All. This:

Cel-shading that I use for robots

if you have bad color sense like me and want to trick ppl into thinking that you know what you're doing.

1-2 : Base and Shadow

3 : Highlights

4-5 : Reflective Light & Contrast/Flow

note: every detail should come together nicely and lead your eyes to the main focus :)

6 : Touchups

Continue refining the shadows/highlights. Add interesting textures/ artistic effects.

I personally love duplicating the lineart, put it on overlay (with color) and move it slightly off-center it creates nice highlights on areas with seams when you don't want chromatic abberation.

Azuma Makoto: X-Ray Flowers (2023)

new to tumblr?

found yourself getting blocked for seemingly no reason?

does your profile look like this:

you're getting blocked because people think you're a bot

do yourself a favour and change your profile images to literally anything except the defaults. give your blog a name, give yourself a bio even if it simply says "new, figuring this out" or something. please, just do ANYTHING that shows everyone you're a human. then you wont get blocked anymore and you'll have a lot more fun here!

oh and while we're here, another hot tip: reblog things. likes do nothing here, there's no algorithm

okay happy tumblring tumblrinos, tumblrinas and tumblrinehs!

Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

My approach to lighting: mix and match to find out what works. I've never been great at capturing realistic lighting so I just kind of wing it 🤷‍♀️

Mad scientists will be like "I know a place" and then strap you onto the autopsy table