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17 votes
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Inside South Korea's zombie factory
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The 1,200 year maths mistake
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
6 votes -
Faroe tunnel has opened up more than 150m below the Atlantic, boasting a six-mile-long art installation complete with its own spectral soundtrack picked up by car radio
10 votes -
Adastra: The best furry visual novel
15 votes -
The homemade limits of everyday weirdness
12 votes -
Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
13 votes -
Moki Cherry blended work and life, embodying a free-spirited 1970s vision – daughter Neneh Cherry, and her granddaughter Naima Karlsson recall her life and work
5 votes -
Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc
6 votes -
Steaks grown from human cells spark interest and outrage [2020]
43 votes -
This Lego artist builds masterpieces using all black bricks | Obsessed
15 votes -
Swimming in it: Art and (im)morality
5 votes -
Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
18 votes -
At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes
8 votes -
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images
23 votes -
Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
56 votes -
A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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"My dad painted the iconic cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ and it’s haunted him ever since"
21 votes -
Tomoya Ikeda — Macintosh artist
12 votes -
Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)
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Paul Gregory - Heavy Metal Painter
8 votes -
Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist
11 votes -
Pokemon x Van Gogh Museum exhibit opens today
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Rubens & Women review – ‘Naked breasts moved him religiously’
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Any visual artists here who do commissions?
I'm not sure if I've hit the right place to post about this topic, but I've seen it mentioned in passing in other threads and decided I would inquire to see if anyone's available and interested....
I'm not sure if I've hit the right place to post about this topic, but I've seen it mentioned in passing in other threads and decided I would inquire to see if anyone's available and interested.
I'm trying to get some character artwork done for a project I'm working on. I have some references I made using AI art generators. The reason for this is because I have been a patron of artists for a few decades now, and one of the most consistent problems I run into is commissioning artwork of characters that have no existing references. I end up writing everything down as a description and have not had very good luck with getting something that resembles what I imagined. It then involves a great deal of back and forth and constant re-drawing which isn't fair to the artist. It's easier if I can just show the artist an image that more or less reflects what I have in mind so there's no ambiguity.
That said, I'm looking for someone with a style that's realistic or leans towards realism, i.e. no anime or overly cartoon-like depictions. Realistic comic style is fine - Junji Ito's artwork was a big inspiration for how some of the characters are depicted. The story is horror-themed and so hopefully the artist enjoys or at least tolerates horror.
Anyone who is interested can reply here or DM with their prices and hopefully links to their work elsewhere to take a look. Thanks!
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Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding
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Danish artist Jens Haaning ordered to return €67,000 to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run"
27 votes -
A portrait of Tenochtitlan
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Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?
22 votes -
“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
9 votes -
Why Bill Watterson vanished
45 votes -
On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
14 votes -
Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
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Selected works of renowned Iranian painter, Mahmoud Farshchian
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Artist collaborates with bees to create sculptural wax skulls
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Two short films about potters
These two videos about potters are lovely. They're long (well, 20 minutes and 30 minutes) so the people get a chance to speak. There's no jump cuts, no weird edits. You get to spend some time with...
These two videos about potters are lovely. They're long (well, 20 minutes and 30 minutes) so the people get a chance to speak. There's no jump cuts, no weird edits. You get to spend some time with these quiet, reserved, people as they go about their craft.
Everything in Batterham's studio is covered in clay. Including, sadly, probably his lungs by the sound of him.
Anne Mette Hjortshøj - Paying honest attention
"Danish potter, Anne Mette Hjortshøj lives and works on the small island of Bornholm, situated in the Baltic Sea. ...
Our documentary gives a gentle and revealing insight into one of Denmark's leading potters. It follows Hjortshøj's daily life; collecting clay from the local beach for her glazes, throwing and making pots in her studio, and talking about the firing of her two chamber wood-fired salt kiln and its role in producing the decorative aspects of her work. We learn of her influences both within and outside of the Danish potting tradition and the inspiration she takes from the nature of the island.
Her pots are characterised by a quiet dignity, entirely in tune with her surroundings and with the greatest respect for both beauty and function."
Richard Batterham - Independent Potter
A 30-minute documentary about one of the UK's finest potters. ...
Batterham's domestic stoneware is highly collectible - but made for everyday use. Here he shares his philosophy and demonstrates his art, from mixing the clay to glazing the finished item and much in-between. Batterham died on 8th September 2021(I tried to tag this with Anne Mette Hjortshøj's name but tags didn't like the unicode.)
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How 'terrible artist' Rob Liefeld made millions
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ArtSEA: Seattle’s waterfront makeover brings new art to Alaskan Way
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How Stan Lee became the face of an exploitative industry
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Artist William Mullan is documenting the world's strangest apples
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Comic artists and writers, what's your process for planning pages?
I'm sure there are multiple comic artists and writers on Tildes, so let's talk process for designing and planning pages! Hopefully this fits here, but if not feel free to move it. I've only drawn...
I'm sure there are multiple comic artists and writers on Tildes, so let's talk process for designing and planning pages! Hopefully this fits here, but if not feel free to move it.
I've only drawn a few comics myself, and I like to make a script first for longer projects. It can be detailed and break it down by panels, or just give an overall summary of the page. For shorter comics though where I can clearly envision it (e.g. 4 pages), I like to kind of wing it. Someone else I know likes to go right into roughs, and then figure out what to cut as he goes along.
How about everyone else? What are your preferred methods and steps?
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Interview with artist Danielle Clough about her vibrant embroidery
9 votes -
‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI
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With only a blue ballpoint pen Dadu Shin creates illustrations dripping in eeriness
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Do any Tildes artists work in an unusual medium? If so what's your medium / process?
I am always interested in how creative people express themselves. There is something very I find very relaxing about creating large scale ephemeral art. Every summer I create temporary beach art /...
I am always interested in how creative people express themselves. There is something very I find very relaxing about creating large scale ephemeral art. Every summer I create temporary beach art / typography with seaweed collected from the shoreline.
Couple of examples:
https://imgur.com/gallery/m7xZIvy
https://imgur.com/gallery/vBrlpBz
https://imgur.com/gallery/zYCpDuo
https://imgur.com/gallery/Mw5NIr2Generally the process involves sketching out the design in the sand, then collecting 3-5, 39 gallon yard bags worth of seaweed. I then slowly trace the design and weave the seaweed into itself and the sand. These projects take about 4 - 8 hours depending on the scarcity of the seaweed and the size of the design. They disappear with in just a few days due to weather and human and animal activity.
So tell me, artists of tildes, what weird stuff do you create?
Edit: words
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‘Iron Man’ creator Jack Kirby’s son slams Stan Lee Disney+ documentary: ‘Over thirty-five years of uncontested publicity’
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John Romita Sr., legendary Marvel artist, dies at 93
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Tove Jansson's unseen Moomin sketches to go on show in Paris – exhibition focuses on life and career of brave and uncompromising Finnish artist and writer
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Dave Bull carves Hokusai's Picture Book of Everything
4 votes