sapphire: “Ruby, just act casual!”
ruby: *crabwalks out* “WHAT IS HAPPENING FELLOW HETEROSEXUALS”
anyway in conclusion i am very enthusiastic about art
one thing that was really frustrating this semester was we only used traditional materials. and i totally understand why– im the only person who’d go digital, there’d be a bunch of potential privacy issues/tech issues, they already gotta have all the other things. and part of the course was introduction to a bunch of materials and i get that. but i feel so limited by ink/paint/charcoal??? i hate how trad materials deal with colour, you get so few and you gotta mix them and then once you paint w them it’s even more unpredictable. just let me have digital, have all my saved colours
also like. for assessment i have a visual diary which is for me to show engagement with art outside of what’s in class. and here i am doing TONS of that in ways they would love. but somehow it never ends up in the diary??? i love this stuff, i love thinking abt this stuff, i hate writing it down neatly/printing it out
i thought of this bc in class we had to pick an artwork that we liked the colour of and i picked that one and i spent like 10 minutes mentally analysing it in terms of pixel art colour theory and then i got called on to talk about it and i was like uh
ok so this so shitty and quick it doesn’t really explain my point but
so this is a redraw of a van gogh painting. it’s got only 12 colours, but if it was a better drawing it would be pretty much identical to the painting??? you could probably bring down the colour count too, in fact here’s a pixel art style colour palette using these colours:
im really tempted to point out ways in which van gogh’s use of colour mirrors use of colour in pixel art
there r so many beautiful colours