[Hubble]

[ref] More questions. I love these. This is going to get pretty long, so please remember that English is my second language and I'm fine with you asking for clarification.



Do you like NASA?


Yeah! I think NASA is a great administration, even though it has its fair share of flaws. NASA has played a huge part in supporting accessible education and helping inspire future engineers, as well as creating a ton of the technology we use every day. They're also super cooperative with other space agencies like Roscosmos, JAXA, and the ESA, which I think is really important now.



What made you interested in space related things?


Well this is going to sound stupid as all get out. I've always been pretty fascinated by space, but the one big thing that made me fall in love with it was a mobile video game called A Noble Circle. I am not going to elaborate.

where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Still in Florida. I'm hoping to be out of school by then, so I'll hopefully be working for an aerospace company or government administration. I also want a Victorian home and many more cats. Perhaps a very good boyfriend and/or girlfriend as well, to help parent the cats. Who knows.

ooo howdy, do you have any advice for painting with a limited palette? :o

I actually made this piece with an extremely limited palette just to get ready to answer this question. I'm focusing on digital painting here, but these tips should apply to traditional painting as well.

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> Pick a good pallet. (Note: I actually did this specific piece with a pallet that I hate. Don't be like me.) If you're given an option on what small selection of colors you can use, pick wisely. I like to have colors that I can line up by shade without causing any eye strain. You also don't want a completely monotone pallet if you can avoid it.
Good Example:

Really, Really Bad Example:


> Repeat colors across the image. You always want your art to look coherent, rather than looking like several things mashed together. With a limited pallet, you can do this by using the same colors- or mixes of your colors -in different places throughout the image. You can see how I personally do this in these images: 1 2 and 3. All of these pieces have five or less base colors that I've only strayed from by blending or shading. I also really recommend checking out the art in Stand Still Stay Silent, which is a webcomic with a specific color scheme dedicated to each scene. The artist does an absolutely stunning job making use of as few colors as possible, and there are a ton of variations to reference from.

> You can treat it like it's monochrome. This especially goes for portraits. Be very careful when you do this, because some low-contrast colors just won't work here. You want to do this when you have a pallet with a lot of variation in brightness, because you'd be treating these colors like a greyscale gradient. I was too lazy to draw a good example for this, but here's a photo manipulation for it, featuring this weird rat thing I saw at the pet store today.


I can't think of any other tips, but let me know if there's anything more specific you want help with.

[crackerbox_palace]

woah, thank you so much for the guide hubble! the art turned out beautiful, and it was incredibly helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. I'm going to be attending art school for at least the next three years of my life and this is going to be very valuable to me and many others i'm sure <3 I seriously hope you have a wonderful day/night, thanks so much again!

[Winstalgia]

I've been following you for a while now (gosh I love space stuff and your art sm) and I wanted to say, the guide is great! You did an amazing job.

[0Zero0]

I love your format for this!