Author: dai

Welcome back again! For this week’s edition of Chroma, I generated this palette:

When I saw the colors of this palette, I was somewhat reminded of chīwěn (蚩吻), one of the nine sons of the Dragon King in traditional Chinese mythology. I had wanted to get a tattoo of it a while ago, and although I never got around to it, I had searched many images and drawn out designs of it. Specifically, it reminded me of an image of a chīwěn on the roof of the Longyin Temple in Chukou, Taiwan (shown below), though looking back, the colors don’t actually match very much. 

Either way, I decided to draw a personification of this dragon in the form of a goddess/woman. I also wanted to practice the solid black color shading I had used briefly after playing the game Hades. I didn’t end up finishing coloring the background, but I hopefully will be done with it next week!

Welcome back! For this week’s edition of Chroma, I generated this palette:

This illustration is a lot messier/more fluid than I typically draw, but I was inspired by some different drawings I’d seen online and thought I could expand on my typically structured pieces. I definitely had some fun just drawing some random stuff! Specifically, I based this piece on the end scene of the 2001 film “Mulholland Drive”, which I couldn’t get out of my head after a bad trip. It’s a pretty depressing movie, but I would still recommend watching if you have the time and emotional stability. 🙂

Halloween’s tomorrow! Hope everyone’s having some fun this weekend and dressing up. This week, I ended up generating this palette:

I decided to incorporate the colors from the palette mostly in the background with the trees, sky, and moon/sun(?), with the woman in the foreground being based loosely on a picture of a woman I saw online, but can’t remember the name of. I also recently played Hades, a great dungeon-style game that I’d really recommend! It has beautiful art that utilizes some color-blocked, black shadows, which I decided to experiment with a little with the woman and the trees/branches in the background.

Hey, everyone! It’s almost Halloween weekend, so I hope everyone’s excited and has their costumes ready. I’m here with another post for my series, Chroma, where I generate a random color palette each week and create an illustration based off of it. This week, the palette for my illustration was very bright and colorful, which are some of my favorite works to do. I especially love combining bright colors with black or darker/more neutral colors, which I tried to do with the woman and her dress.

I’m happy with how this one turned out, which you may be able to tell by the way I set it as my weekly header! I think the colorfulness of the background captures the vibrancy I’m using in this series. Again, I’ve been trying to do more backgrounds recently, and although it was repetitive to draw so many different bottles/jars, I liked to see it all come together.

Hey! I’m Dai, and this is the first post for my new series, Chroma. In this series, I’ll generate a random color palette each week and create an illustration based off of it. I’ve always loved adding color to my works, but I often find myself struggling to choose which colors to use. Through this series, I hope I’ll be able to improve my coloring skills, as well as create new art for the readers of arts, ink. to enjoy.

This week, I generated this palette on Coolors.co. I loved the contrast between the bright red/pink and the cool blues and purples, and I knew I wanted to create a night scene with this palette.

Recently, I’ve been wanting to draw more animals in my illustrations. For the longest time, I only drew people, barely drawing objects, animals, or backgrounds, so I went slightly out of my comfort zone with this piece, though I’m very happy with how it turned out! I ended up using the blue, purple, and black mainly for the background/sky, while using the red/yellows for the lighting and the tiger. I wanted to capture the atmosphere surrounding railroads at night, and I hope I captured it well.