>>7930532
Use colored pencils

>>7930532
Go back to 1994 and stay there.

>>7930545
Man I wish I could

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why did Japan move away from this artstyle?

>howie thread
You see it, do it. It's lines and colors on paper. There is no formula or code underneath the lines.

>>7930554
Not as easy to get away with tracing movie posters anymore?

>>7930593
You're kidding right? Today you can literally plagiarize art styles, composition, EVERYTHING and spin it in any way you want. And the industry it's already shaping itself to that effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLcg6zlzY8o

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>>7930598
Sure but I don't think any of it is quite as blatant as literally just slapping arnold from the predator poster on your game's cover.

>>7930554
all shitty new capcom games look like this.

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>>7930605
I shoulda used this as a better example.

>>7930554
Looks too video gamey imo

>>7930532
Looks like markers to me. You could get a somewhat similar effect with water colours, since it's also a light to dark medium.
Also, you can see your line work through the watercolours, so it'd help keep that spontaneous sketchy quality.

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>>7930532
>how do I do thos thing
you do thos thing
Max saturation on shadows, desaturated pastel highlights, and saturated complimentary hues on midtones.
If the highlight of a material is saturated, desaturate the shadows instead
Also keep a limited colour palette since this style uses markers. Didn't do it in example but working with a textured opacity brush on a white canvas would be the go, assuming you're looking to mimic the look digitally

>>7934178
let me guess, it looks like shit le ironically

>>7934194
let's see paul allen's study

>>7934295
paul allen wasn't acting like he has it figured out while posting peak dk /bef/ fodder

>>7934303
hehehe hoo hoo I'm gonna do more studies to spite you, stay tuned

>>7934335
I'm literally shaking rn

>>7930554
these covers were made for the western audience

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>>7934379
cope

>>7930532
By trying, you lazy, ignorant piece of shit

>>7930532
Thats just prisma/copic markers plus colored pencils. There's lots of tutorials online and a bunch of people that still make lots of art using markers/pencils.

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>>7934350
All points still stand

big yikes

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This styles mad fun

>>7934194
Nodraw

>>7934527
>>7934595
actually gj dude
I still feel like the way the brush is mixing isn't really matching the markers(? I guess?) they colored with in the OP
>>7930532
Kinu Nishimura... My beloved.
She's so fucking good.

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>>7930554
you would know if you've seen a few movies at least. i mean, they did that (stealing) a lot, how many conan the barbarian covers do you think they ripped off for fantasy games? there was great thread on /vr/ about it once.

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>>7930532
Fun study.

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>>7934920
I'm sure they've had that same thread multiple times, but there's a website that documents this fairly extensively: https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm

It's hilarious what they got away with.

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>>7934993
the metal gear one is obviously one of the most famous examples. good website, thanks for sharing

>>7934916
Bless, still got a long way to go w/ digital rendering. Really considering just going back to trad

>>7934971
Now this is nice layering, hair texture's insane. Is the wet look part of the brush or is it a blender put on over it?

>>7935457
I just used a random assortment of watercolor brushes that I had downloaded. Some of them have wet effects.