ITT: Post your favourite aesthetics

[nakadashi]

Whatever this is called

A normal day in Russia?

 

[SpeedSleek]

 

[Sketch Relics]

I have a fondness for hard shadows, I wish I could remember what this style is called.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Medieval arcade

 

[Skookumsquitch]

I have a fondness for hard shadows, I wish I could remember what this style is called.

Is that really a conscious style, or is it just a limited shaded colour palette? Either way, it's something I didn't know I liked until I saw the second and third images.

 

[MindControlBoxer]

Yverborn
Which as far as i know encompasses the works from georg jutvall and olof hanvark(and maybe others?).

Spoiler

 

[Some_porcupine]

I like Micha Klein kitschy works too
and Neoliberal capitalist surrealism (as opposite to "Allegria"/blobby figures which i hate)
(old) memphis, memphis milano
frasurbane (hmmm so orange...)

 

[Sketch Relics]

Is that really a conscious style, or is it just a limited shaded colour palette? Either way, it's something I didn't know I liked until I saw the second and third images.

I've come across a name for it before, but i've only seen it the once and never again. There is a renaissance art-style called Chiaroscuro that it kinda close, but it doesn't really use flat, hard shadows.

As you can see, these are heavily shadowed, but it's not a hard, flat type of shadowing like in the pics from my first post.
The style I'm looking for is probably more so derived from old video graphics, since the limitations of the color palate would force hard blacks and both of the games I used as examples are throwbacks to old dungeon crawlers.

 

[Emmy Fitz]

Whimsigothic

Global Village Coffeehouse

Y2K

Utopian Schoolastic

I had a lot of fun with those Aesthetic Highlight threads. Maybe I should bring them back...

 

[Cobalt]

Not sure what to call it. But like places that are indoors but are built to feel like your outdoors, or are corporate but are built to feel like a rustic lodge or something. Best examples I can give are Great Wolf Lodge, Cabelas, and Bass Pro in the US and Canada. Maybe like faux lodgecore or something.

 

[Hobo8239]

biodieselpunk its like the 40s but futuristic and environmentalist its pretty cool

 

[Some_porcupine]

moodboard from chud from aesthetics server
reminds me of this forum a bit

 

[Vitez]

Any sort of PS1 graphics style aesthetic is cool to me. Whether it be the low-poly in game graphics, or just the rendered cutscenes.

 

[Polonius]

Plantwave (?)
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Lighthousecore
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Brutalist/ Ecobrutalist
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And finally, my most recent obsession, Edward Hopper paintings
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A lot of very lonesome imagery there, but a sort of comforting loneliness, and for the last two a feeling of coming after something else, be it a long busy day or the death of a civilization. An eveningtime sort of atmosphere. The buildings and technology imply the presence of other people, but they are mostly absent from the viewer's experience, again, sort of a 'late to the party and the guests have left' feeling. I dunno why, but it resonates with me a bit.
I wonder what aesthetic preferences reflect in the people who choose them?

 

[Ross_Я]

Bright things from previous century.

And so on. I'm just tired of these modest and dull colors that are popular since 2000. Especially blacks and greys. It's like Y2K happened and destroyed color. I need wildstyle, Memphis Group, pro street - anything, literally anything bright.

 

[Love's Labour's Won]

I don't know if this counts as one aesthetic, but these images make me feel some sort of way.