Y2K Girl Drawing

From butterfly clips to space buns, tween heartthrobs to the most quotable teen movies, and pink Motorola Razr phones to the legacy of 90s music, Y2K aesthetics are back in fashion. So grab your UGG boots and a glitter pen, and let’s dive into this funky trend.

This style is all about chaos, so look for pixelated or low-fi images and rudimentary sorts of animation. Also, blurring and warping are common, as is the use of color to give 3D shapes a flat, watery look.

Y2K Style

The Y2K aesthetic is a fun way to bring a whimsical style to your site. It’s a mix of early internet DIY with the hopeful futurism at the turn of the millennium. It’s candy bright, exaggerated, and fantastical. It references rave culture with psychedelic colors and blobby shapes. And it nods to hip-hop with its bling and flash.

3D objects were a big part of Y2K design, as were photos and images of people. This look can incorporate a variety of textures, such as chrome effects for fonts and the shimmer of frosted plastic or translucent resin. It can also use watery shapes, both flat and 3D, that evoke atomic shapes or the look of flowing lava.

Clashing colors were popular in Y2K designs, including tangerine orange, Barbie pink, and saturated purples. Blended colors and gradients were also used, and often incorporated a dark brown tint or crunchy blacks. For photography, try using image effects that blur the edges of a person or animate the subject for a surreal effect.

3D Objects

The Y2K aesthetic combines early-digital DIY with the hopeful futurism of the millennium. It draws inspiration from space culture, incorporating blobby shapes and candy bright colors, hip-hop style with its embracing of bling and flash, and rave culture with its psychedelic forms and textures.

As technology became more advanced, designers were able to experiment with 3D objects and other effects that wouldn’t have been possible before. This resulted in shiny, low-fi graphics that look almost cartoon-like.

Using these styles in your design can be a fun way to add some flair. You can use 3D objects as symbols or backgrounds, and apply image effects to photos to achieve a Y2K aesthetic.

From UGG boots and hot pink Motorola Razrs to Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” and Mean Girls, the 2000s were a decade of fun fashion and unforgettable pop-culture masterpieces. Now, the trends and styles that defined the 00s are back in a big way. Get into the trend with this collection of Y2K Girl illustrations and vectors on Envato Elements.