At 2/28/24 05:42 PM, Thetageist wrote: Friends and I were talking about some art we'd found that for whatever reason had a lot of brown tones coupled with a very shiny rendering style, and a few particularly creative insults were thrown around. Things like:

That gave me an idea. I want to ask you: What color palettes grind your gears, either in general or in certain artistic contexts?

Let's rant. >:)

At 3/2/24 07:12 PM, ShockAbe wrote:

At 2/29/24 04:07 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 2/29/24 03:26 PM, Dolorious wrote: I don't really like color palettes that are mostly brown and yuck yellows.
Just think the era of gaming where every game company put a piss or brown filter over every single game.

It’s not even golden yellow/orange like the Mexico filter.

At 3/17/24 08:41 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 3/6/24 03:38 AM, aapiarts wrote: A green and purple gradient. I always love using green and purple then I try making a gradient with them and it looks horrible.

Wonder if it’ll look better if you make both of them closer to blue, so that way it goes through blue in the middle.

At 3/1/24 10:57 PM, maniczombiedreamgirl wrote:

At 3/1/24 05:52 PM, BickerySebastian wrote:

At 2/29/24 03:45 AM, JJBoltonNG wrote:

At 2/29/24 02:26 AM, Spaggo wrote: Bright saturated red and bright saturated green. Used to be all I would use and now i hate it

100 years in gulag for posting a image with an iFunny watermark.

At 2/29/24 01:44 PM, maniczombiedreamgirl wrote: eyebleeding neons, like as saturated as possible, all contrasting and with no cohesion. like uhhh maybe this is a me thing but if you were anywhere near the danganronpa fandom in like 2020 during the rise of "scenecore" you probably saw some art like that!

I honest to God HATE scenecore because most artists just fail at what is the background versus what is the foreground due to the usage of color. Now, let me post you an image made by a FurAffinity artist named Blablaizmyname to demonstrate why.

The problem with the saturation is that it's too distracting from the foreground and lacks any differences from the foreground because the character itself is particularly bright in some capacity, but it's harder to differentiate from either side if both share an identical brightness and saturation. A solution to that would be easily done in multiple ways, like for example, toying around what colors are used, the brightness of the background versus the foreground, just darkening the background, and such. I'm not even going how much I hate this artwork because this is a crime against pixel art due to how inconsistent the lineart is (In a shorter explanation, EVERYTHING should be drawn within the same bit size to avoid this issue because it causes uneven pixels and also ruins the picture if you tried to resize it in non-fractional numbers.).
I honestly don't know what is the color palette that would make me irrationally angry, but if I had to guess, it would be just FULL saturated colors with no mid-betweens, like for example, a color that's 255 Red, while Green and Blue is just 0, and something like that. Mainly because some colors are impossible to achieve without having to give more value in those channels, like a slimy green, gold, or galaxy purple. It's REALLY annoying having to see those colors be improperly used for something like contrast.

i also brought up scenecore specifically bc its trying to be scene/scemo with very little understanding of the subculture beyond neon colors and im bitter and nostalgic lmao. but youre right. the art style scenecore is trying to replicate is a lot better at what you mention here so im using that to justify my bitterness. a lot of art within that style has the bright colors limited to either the foreground or background, uses very limited bright colors, or balances the bright colors with black and other neutral tones. it makes the bright colorful parts stand out and makes sense with the idea of scene being a colorful version of emo.
its not that this art is necessarily bad or that ANY scenecore art is bad but man does it become hard to look at when every color is the same level of saturation. nothing sticks out and it hurts my eyes!!!!!
i also might just be projecting because i had a scenecore phase when i was 14 and im still embarrassed lmao... someone let me know if you want me to dig up some of that art from my old deviantart account lmao

At 3/1/24 01:56 AM, Zfert wrote:

At 3/1/24 12:46 AM, SourCherryJack wrote: This thread makes me want to do a series of paintings using every color palette you cowards hate.

This could make for a crazy art collab... Everyone throws the worst color palette they can concoct into a hat and they receive someone else's monstrosity in return >:)

At 3/17/24 08:57 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 3/1/24 01:56 AM, Zfert wrote:

At 3/1/24 12:46 AM, SourCherryJack wrote: This thread makes me want to do a series of paintings using every color palette you cowards hate.

This could make for a crazy art collab... Everyone throws the worst color palette they can concoct into a hat and they receive someone else's monstrosity in return >:)

I want this to happen. Please feel free.

At 3/17/24 08:54 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 3/1/24 05:40 PM, AldilusRex wrote: This thread is making me rethink my color choices for my most recent oc. Back to the redesign board I guess.

Neon colors irritate me. They can work sometimes, but most of the time it's a mess that burns the eyes.

Hey, this thread is all in fun! Any color palette can work with the right context!