painting w/o blending

[Anonymous No.3986079]

any other good examples of paintings that dont use blending? i hate blending but i dont want my art to look too flat-colored. i like how you can still make it look painterly in a cartoony kind of way

[Anonymous No.3986081]

Blending isn't what makes your work look 3d.

[Anonymous No.3986093]

>>3986079

Mid century american illustration were often done in gouache which is a medium which naturally doesn't allow for much blending.

[Anonymous No.3986099]

>>3986081
i know that
by flat colored i didnt mean flat form. i mean it has the illusion of being painterly while not actually involving any blending
sorry about that

[Anonymous No.3986102]

>>3986093
i do like the way gouache looks but that image you posted is still pretty blended for my preference, might not be a good example. thanks though, ive seen some gouache paintings before that have minimal to no blending. im just trying to see more artwork and different styles done this way to get more ideas on how i can make it work

[Anonymous No.3986143]

Maybe consider taking a look at some detailed pixel art? I've seen some impressive pixels that look like small paintings but since they're pixels the don't make use of blending tools.

I know pixel art is not the same as painting but sometimes examining them gives me some inspiration or ideas to try when I'm painting.

[Anonymous No.3986170]

>>3986079
Look up ukiyo-e. Most ukiyo-e are less painterly than what you posted but they still demonstrate the style well. Traditionally they were printed using a carved woodblock for each color, which doesn't allow for blending other than the occasional gradient background.

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>>3986079
Every single moving frame of almost every anime

[Anonymous No.3986259]

>>3986081
Nowhere in OP's post did he even say that

[Anonymous No.3986266]

>>3986081
Well how do you than?

[Anonymous No.3986267]

>>3986093
Or, look at someone like Andrew Wyeth. A lot of his stuff is egg tempera, which isn't really a blending medium, so he used a lot of cross-hatching technique in his paintings.
I'm old as fuck, and I got my illustration degree at a time when everything was done in goauche. I developed a cross-hatching style for it I still use on occasion now - and works pretty well in digital, too, just set up a fade on your brush, and build up color with paint strokes. If the brush is small enough, it merges in the eye.
This is an apple I did ways back when i was bored, that I never finished, but shows what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous No.3986273]

>>3986079
So, don't blend. See my Apple post. You can cross hatch with color, you can overlay transparent layers, there are many ways to build up color and texture without blending. Go look at what pointalists did with dots.
If you want depth of color, then create it. Hue, along with value and saturation.

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>>3986273
thanks, this is very helpful anon, exactly the kind of thing im looking for

[Anonymous No.3986960]

>>3986079
bump for interest

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>>3986079
>>3986093
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>>3986960
These are absolutely fantastic, love them

[Anonymous No.3987140]

>>3986960
I'll try posting more examples

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>>3987140
Please do, that is actually quite interesting.

[Anonymous No.3987977]

This is gonna go 50-50 with people thinking if it counts or not.
Hajime sorayama doesn't use oils or belndable mediums, he uses oils, a little bit of acrylics, and airbrush. He uses a soft airbrush brush, but he technically never blends anything.

[Anonymous No.3988008]

>>3987977
He uses several different media at once, washes, layers, and pencils enough that it might not "technically" be blending but the effect is the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xbm8CRkCMg&t=7m47s

[Anonymous No.3988649]

>>3987977
>wow cool sounds really interesting
>looks him up
>Its literally all sexy robot images like this one

ugh.

[Anonymous No.3988651]

>>3987140
>>3987977
Sorry I'm back. More pixel stuff this time but I'm digging for me. An easy way to find more would be just to look up "cell shading"

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>>3988652
found this guy on facebook

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>>3988653
I love this one

[Anonymous No.3988688]

while a lot of the pieces you've posted aren't blending they are showing form shadow by having gradient across their form.

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>>3988725
This is actually the most impressive one imo. If you look at the thumbnail compared to the bigger image the contrast with how realistic it looks is fucking insane.

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>>3988744
I almost didn't click on it because I thought it was over rendered hyper realistic garbage

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>>3988726

hello /beg/, looks like you wandered into the wrong thread

[Anonymous No.3989001]

>>3986079
I think all of Rockstar games artwork for Grand Theft Auto, Bully and Red Dead Redemption are great examples of this. They've honestly inspired me so much when I was younger.

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>>3988656
I think the trick to this style is being very detailed/having a lot of shit going on. It's deceptively simple, but what creates visual interest despite the flat colors is that there are hundreds of different color patches

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>>3989002
Right, its REALLY accurate and interesting but its simplified. Its simplified but its not easy to create. The reason why its so attractive is because we're taking too much information and breaking it down into the most attractive graphic shapes

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>>3989001
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>>3989001
If anyone loves these styles then you should also watch A Scanner Darkly. Everything is rotoscoped in this style

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>>3989001
Ah you made me remember this guy, look up Sergey Kolesov at ArtStation, he made some concept art for Dishonored like pic related