Pomelo's Graphics

[pom]

Seeing Vulpix's thread made me want to make blends for the first time in over a decade. They are actually insanely fun to make.






and a few 100x100 LJ icons >:3

[NinAcTi0N]

Oooh, what exactly are blends? These look soo amazing, they remind me of the vibes some weirdcore/surrealism artists would go for and I dig it! :V

[CooperationIsKey]

I don't know exactly what a "blend" is myself but dang they look awesome! :O

Aldo I love the icons. I still enjoy making those things now and again.

[pom]

I don't know exactly what a "blend" is myself but dang they look awesome! :O

Aldo I love the icons. I still enjoy making those things now and again.

Oooh, what exactly are blends? These look soo amazing, they remind me of the vibes some weirdcore/surrealism artists would go for and I dig it! :V

Thank you! Blends were a type of graphic design that were popular in the 2000's to early 2010's. They were basically digital collages with characters or celebrities made in photoshop or any other photo editor. They were all over DA, livejournal, blogger, xanga, neopets and basically any artsy space back then. There are tons of old groups on deivantart that are basically archives of these things. Here is an example and another example

A lot of people used these for early layout headers and forum signatures. Usually with anime characters or celebrities
Here is some examples

[NinAcTi0N]

Not gonna lie, I just remembered this post and thought about doing a similar collage technique with a few of my favorite OCs :V Not just that but this retro nostalgia is taking over me all over again lol

I’m still curious though… would you use a specific program to get the dithering right, or would it be done within Paint Tool SAI (or whichever art software you used)? I love dithered textures :’]

[pom]

Not gonna lie, I just remembered this post and thought about doing a similar collage technique with a few of my favorite OCs :V Not just that but this retro nostalgia is taking over me all over again lol

I’m still curious though… would you use a specific program to get the dithering right, or would it be done within Paint Tool SAI (or whichever art software you used)? I love dithered textures :’]

AHH sorry for the late reply Nina, I used photoshop but honestly any art/graphics image editing program can make it work! I did it with cranking up sharpness and using a posterization effect though!