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47 votes
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Where do you share your art with the world?
Where do you share the art that you make with the world? Do you use a social media site? A personal website? Do you keep it all to yourself? Is your art something that can't be shared online so...
Where do you share the art that you make with the world? Do you use a social media site? A personal website? Do you keep it all to yourself? Is your art something that can't be shared online so easily?
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Pompeii: new paintings found
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Where do I start if i want to draw these one day?
Let's say I want to draw/paint things like this: 1 2 Think black/death metal album covers, medieval renaissance, dark/sci fi scenarios. I know this takes years of practice and I just want to do...
Let's say I want to draw/paint things like this: 1 2
Think black/death metal album covers, medieval renaissance, dark/sci fi scenarios.
I know this takes years of practice and I just want to do these as a hobby.
I am just lost to where I start. Just pen and paper and focus learn how to draw people first? Is there any online courses/resources?
The second thing is I don't want to spend money so I won't learn to do these with oil or any real world material. If I do commit to the hobby with pen and paper, I will go to digital (drawing tablet + Linux/krita) and stay on that forever.
It's the same with guitar. I play guitar for years and I'm settled for life with a nice guitar + mid priced digital pedalboard with nice effects/simulations (ampero II stomp) and a 1x12 flat speaker cabinet. No more purchases.
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Giant anaconda sneaks up on unsuspecting riverboat captain (Diorama)
27 votes -
Can you recreate Spirited Away in Blender? Should you? I gave it a try with three scenes.
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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"Mugshots" - A series of paintings I'm working on
20 votes -
Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed
19 votes -
I made a 12,000 page bookbinding abomination
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All of Vincent van Gogh's 1515 paintings and drawings
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The collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250. The catch: you'll never know which one is real.
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MUGSHOT 17, oil on canvas, 35x50cm
19 votes -
First attempt at painting the moon
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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How Stuart Little uncovered an avant-garde masterpiece missing for almost a century
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How do I get "good" at art?
So this is the dumb post of the day. Bear with me. All I can say about art (like paintings and sculpture) is "is cool", "I like it", "it makes me sad" and look like a complete idiot totally out of...
So this is the dumb post of the day. Bear with me.
All I can say about art (like paintings and sculpture) is "is cool", "I like it", "it makes me sad" and look like a complete idiot totally out of place. (On the other hand, I can deliver a nuanced analysis of graffiti and hip hop so yeah it's all about the background.) I want to take my partner to a museum and start saying fancy shit like "oh you see the lines here these remind me of Donatello's style of light and shadow". Like I know it's possibly the dumbest thing to want but I really would like to learn more about it and be able to give informed opinions on art pieces.
Anyway, any recommendations? Maybe some youtube videos or some books? Or should I just say that everything past 1400 is derivative?
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Art restoration fail
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Anyone into painting (more specifically watercolors?)
Just curious. I've been trying to understand watercolors better. What I love about watercolors: so much expression, so much freedom. It also seems like a uniquely frustrating medium; understanding...
Just curious. I've been trying to understand watercolors better. What I love about watercolors: so much expression, so much freedom. It also seems like a uniquely frustrating medium; understanding how much water is needed, how water reacts with certain papers, different types of brushes, etc. (I should mention it's the only painting I do, so maybe this stuff isn't unique to watercolor.)
Curious if there's any other watercolor enthusiasts here. Care to share your experiences, or tips for a novice?
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
15 votes -
Exploding AT-AT on a tropical beach from Rogue One (Diorama)
14 votes -
Pokemon x Van Gogh Museum exhibit opens today
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On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
14 votes -
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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Mini painting
For almost a year now I have been playing D&D, loving every moment we get together and have a session. Because of life and stuff it's been a once a month meet up and the current campaign is coming...
For almost a year now I have been playing D&D, loving every moment we get together and have a session. Because of life and stuff it's been a once a month meet up and the current campaign is coming to an end.
For the better part of all that time I've sat staring at an un-painted mini, I finally took the next step and got a stater kit of paints and went at it. I wish I had done this sooner! So far they are rough as hell but honestly it's such an enjoyable little hobby. I plan on expanding my paints out to more technical washes and shades and with that buying any mini that looks fun to paint.
I know a few folks play table top games. How many of you paint as well?
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I made a majestic (reverse) centaur
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I made the Eye of Cthuhlu from Terraria
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"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place
13 votes -
How one man is recreating lost colors
13 votes -
‘Ivan the Terrible’ painting damaged in Russia in vodka-fueled attack
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In Indonesia, humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
12 votes -
Selected works of renowned Iranian painter, Mahmoud Farshchian
12 votes -
The odd history of goalie masks
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Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist
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How does one create prints for canvas paintings?
If i have a lot of acrylic on canvas paintings and I want to produce prints to sell, where do you make the prints? Local Kinko's/staples? Clear plastic bag or no? Brief artist blurb at the back?...
If i have a lot of acrylic on canvas paintings and I want to produce prints to sell, where do you make the prints? Local Kinko's/staples?
Clear plastic bag or no? Brief artist blurb at the back? Post card?Have you ever bought a print? What made you want to buy it or what stopped you, and what would have made it go from no to yes?
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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Any tips for painting miniatures?
My D&D group mostly used Lego for the longest time, but we recently decided to give miniatures a shot because we were adding more people and I only have so many minifigs to share (unless you want...
My D&D group mostly used Lego for the longest time, but we recently decided to give miniatures a shot because we were adding more people and I only have so many minifigs to share (unless you want Stormtroopers in your fantasy setting, that is!). A few weeks ago we met up to paint our miniatures for our new campaign and I think that was the most relaxing, calming thing I've ever done. We all sat in silence basically, noobing our way through the painting process and we had a lot of fun.
My character is a sheltered rich southern man who sounds a bit like a mix between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn. He's a sorcerer and despite how is mini ended up looking, he does not cast bubblegum -- https://imgur.com/fr4tc6Z
But anyway, looking at it now there are some obvious spots where I messed up and certainly some things I'd do differently now. But until I'm able to get my hands on another miniature, I was wondering if anyone here had experience with painting miniatures and would be able to share some advice?
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Restoration of an Icon of Ave Maria on wood
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These 3D printers print 3D printers! Touring inside Prusa Research's factory to see how they make their 3d printers (using their 3d printers!) and their filament.
10 votes -
Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack. Famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn't damaged.
10 votes -
"Mugshots" - Three new paintings in the series
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A handful of highly skilled artists in Ghana are behind some of the most imaginative, beautiful and exaggerated film posters. These posters are hilarious, captivating, colorful and highly impressive.
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Turn dollar store birdhouses into fantasy buildings for tabletop gaming
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We're back at the Royal Astronomical Society to look at some awesome antique moon globes
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Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making
9 votes -
Mitten - Infinite canvas drawing application
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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The fine art of stopping a flying puck
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The rare blue the Mayans invented
9 votes