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It's a lot more expensive than a children's book, but it's an amazing collection of his work: 3000 Moments

My sister has it and I'm always flipping through it when I visit

nice that you are supportive but it isn't anything special really. So what. The myth that being an artist is some miraculous gift, only given to a chosen few, is generally crap, and if she is interested, and willing to work, she can develop very much. Buy her the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and keep encouraging her.

> People have already been the subject of violence.

Are you talking about the black church that was burned down by one of its own members who wrote "Trump 2016" to make Trump look bad?

Or about the Trump supporters who are getting beat up and harassed? Or are you actually talking about the guy that was tortured for being white?

Yeah, there's a lot of violence, but it's not coming from people who support Trump.

Here's what my bedroom actually looks like!

Proportions are a bit messy but this was more of a fun sketch than anything. If I did it again I'd add more depth by the stairs. If you want to see more of my drawings check out my instagram!

u/ascendingstorm this is fucking rad. I checked out your art station and your website per another commenter. Your art is just... awesome and really thought provoking. This is coming from someone who doesn't really like surrealist art. Love your expression, man.

P.s. I even checked out Sunnata's Zorya album because of your album cover work for them and now I'm hooked on that too.

Website: http://www.ascendingstorm.com/?m=1

The Sunnata album: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XI4saZ4zlro&feature=share

I personally think the opposite. Photo realism is not "advanced". Painting impressionistically is not beginner either. What you need for impressionist painting comes off the back of photorealism. Copying a photo does not make you advanced. Infusing a photo with emotion and meaning makes you advanced. This painting is just that. And I love it. I am honestly tired seeing a photorealistic drawing and then clicking the comments just to see "Wow! I thought it was a photo" over and over again. Not to knock it, but this sort of work takes a different kind of skill. You need a handle (hah) on your brushwork and how you react to what you see. Difficult as fuck. Im still learning how to do this myself.

Learning "how to see" is definitely the cornerstone in becoming a better artist, though. That I agree with. Don't equate impressionism with not being able to do this. In my opinion they do it the best. I recommend anyone learning to pick up "drawing on the right side of the brain". Thats what personally helped me with getting things right. I used to draw photorealistic but I felt that it was an empty sort of exercise. Where do you go from there? Here. You go here. You express yourself.

Love the painting

One of my highschool art teachers does this type of thing on a daily basis, http://donovanclark.blogspot.com/ it's pretty cools stuff.

edit: just realized how outdated that blogspot is, https://instagram.com/donovansart his instagram is up to date though as far as I can tell.

edit2: tehe 69 karma tehe

I think the artist is implying that this planet is a giving mother in a sense, not meant to be abused solely/greedily by corporations for profit. You can read more about it here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/6426537/XII-Encontro-Regional-de-Agroecologia

Edit#4: As the link says, the motto of the event was "The land is the source of life, not profit!" - we should all know what kind of profit he's referring to. Not the type where the guy is trying to make a living. More so the type where giant entities massacre natural resources and life in exchange for not just financial gain, but dominion. A lot of people here are giving poor examples as to why the artist is a hypocrite, as if the artist is saying no one should use the planet for any benefit. So many grammar nerds here are raging over it, instead of trying to understand the artist, who happens to be from Brazil.

/r/ImaginaryMindscapes - The Art of Imagination

A subreddit dedicated to surrealistic landscapes and thought-provoking imagery.

About Project: A legend about five kingdoms in a world named YUNZHONG. The five kingdoms have different powers:earth,metal,fire,wood and water.

source: https://www.behance.net/trylea

Coulda’ used a BIC Clic Stic for a
BIC Clic Stic dik-dik pic—will show myself out . . .

Check out Google Fonts. They are all free, unlike other options like dafonts, which have various licensing attached to the fonts. Google fonts are all under an open source license that can be used commercially.

My girlfriend wanted to do something like this, so a few months ago she went a head and painted her face with acrylic paint and we took some pictures:

https://500px.com/photo/79554675/art-rodent-2-by-seann-alexander

Then you will probably appreciate Google's Art Project. Here is another of Van Gogh's Sunflower paintings: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/philadelphia-museum-of-art/artwork/sunflowers-vincent-willem-van-gogh-dutch-1853-1890/810037/

> What have they done other than blow the fuck out of each other?

• We empowered Taliban in the first place by arming them against the USSR. (terrorism is okey if it is not against us!)

• We pay and support the Saudis a lot. (and in turn, they lobby.)

• We bomb the places, with plenty of civilians blown up by our bombers.

• We get them cancer due to use of depleted uranium.

• We supported Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war, Saddam chemical weapons were obtained from the West, and were used again both Iran and Iraqs own population.(by Saddam)

• I think the US may have had to do with Saddams rise to power. Not sure though. (2009 Honduras coup likely had strong US involvement.)

No doubt list is far from exhaustive.

Textured brushes. Here's a great set if you want to try it out yourself, Kyle's Megapack for Photoshop: https://gumroad.com/l/HKgA

These brushes mimic traditional media, I have to say that they are a joy to paint with. It helps your work have more of a human touch.

>This is magnificent. Now i want to play a game in this graphics.

Reminds me of an old Sierra adventure game called Lost Secret of the Rainforest. Definitely not as detailed as OP's work, but I thought of that game the second I saw the image.

Tagging /u/CantHOLD23 as well.

EDIT: Here's an online version of the game, but I haven't tested it and you'll most likely still need the Copy Protection links from Abandonia to get past the copy protection prompts.

Passive Aggressive Panda, eh? I can work with that.

For that matter, it doesn't need to necessarily be a children's book, that's just a style. Plenty of coffee-table books that are meant as comedy.

This is perfectly legal and some herald it as a positive quality of the fashion industry. There's a TED talk about it:

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html

Posting this here for visibility:

Calm down guys, this is just some kid who is figuring out Photoshop (you can tell by his deviantart uploads). This isn't something new or revolutionary, is it neat? Sure, but I'm going to assume this kid is still in High School and just saw one of those many Behance posts: https://www.behance.net/collection/9449523/polygon

Now hes probably geeking out thinking he might be the next greatest artist on the internet for making this because it took him 24 hours to make in Photoshop and he has about 4k views. Instead of calling him delusional or a hack, just give him some tips to improve. I would say that Photoshop is probably not the ideal tool to use to get this effect. You can make this a whole lot easier and in a lot less time in Illustrator. You simply use a picture(which you should always either pay for, or take your own) then turn on grid, connect to either points or to grid. Use the pen tool to make objects(they should click easily to the points). I also notice you have a lot of artifacts on your image, you might want to look at saving files as PNGs as it would reduce the blurry clusters of pixels. Doing it this way is a whole lot easier and a task that might have taken you 24 hours, could be done in about 2-3. This is why people are not as impressed as you would like them to be. Also I notice you use a "logo" on your picture as well, many artists consider it a little bit tacky and pretentious, especially for something that doesn't really require that much skill or since your piece doesn't have any originality. Since this effect is quite common, a url for your blog or your name would make it seem less egotistical. Don't get discouraged but also realize that effects =/= style and to take on a more humble approach.

Hello guys! I am the artist of this image- katylipscomb :D I just found this post on reddit, and I am so overwhelmed by all of the love and support! This is incredible! You guys really are the greatest! To anyone who has questions, I would be happy to answer. I'll be going through and answering the ones already posted here but you can also ask on my instagram @katy_lipscomb Also you can post here, or email me directly at I also have prints available at http://www.storenvy.com/katylipscomb Or if you would like to pledge your support my art, gain access to exclusive content, and win awesome prizes, I have an account on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/katylipscomb Big thank you to wtg_artist for creating this post with credit <3 And thank you all for the positive feedback. Like I said, I am just in shock right now and just can't believe all the love and support. -Katy Lipscomb

Getting lots of comments about Oracle:

I have never seen that design before today, but I definitely see the similarities. If you want to see what this is based off, google image search Zachriel. You will find a painting I did back in 2004. This painting is a re-imagining of that.

And Magic:

It's also worth noting that before I started working on Magic, there was an offer to license some of the original Angelarium pieces for cards but I turned them down in order to hold on to the rights. It turned out to be a good move because the copyright on them has been worth far more than what WotC is willing to pay to add pieces to their slush pile. It took 5 years for that choice to pay off, but I'm always a fan of betting on the long money.

Here's all the relevant links that people have already been peppering in:

Website: www.trueangelarium.com Active Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1680814846/angelarium-book-of-emanations Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/angelarium

Thanks for all the interest :) I'll be periodically scanning the comments for questions and trying to answer any of them.

The story is called "Story of Your Life" and it is in a semi-eponymous collection titled &quot;Stories of Your Life and Others&quot;. The book is fantastic; there a couple other stories within ("Hell is the Absence of God" and "Tower of Babylon") that would also make for great movies.

Drawing every day is a good start, try this: http://www.posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond
Nothing beats drawing from life though, so look up and see if there's a life drawing class/group around you. If you live in a city this should be easy enough, just google around or check out meetup.com.

Also "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards turned drawing around for me.

It's just painting. The medium is digital. If you want to paint like this digitally you've still got to learn all the skills required for traditional painting. So if you'd like to get into this you can just start with any type of traditional painting resources. If you have no drawing skill whatsoever yet, get the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

"According to the Gospels of Mark (6:14–29) and Matthew (14:1–12), Herod Antipas had imprisoned John the Baptist for condemning his marriage to Herodias, the divorced wife of his half brother Herod Philip (the marriage violated Mosaic Law), but Herod was afraid to have the popular prophet killed. Nevertheless, when Salome danced before Herod and his guests at a festival, he promised to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, Herodias, who was infuriated by John’s condemnation of her marriage, the girl demanded the head of John the Baptist on a platter, and the unwilling Herod was forced by his oath to have John beheaded. Salome took the platter with John’s head and gave it to her mother."

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Salome-stepdaughter-of-Herod-Antipas

High Resolution Source Album (From Google itself)

That’s the mother from one of my favorite movies, Wolf Children. It’s a great movie to watch on Mother’s Day.

Here is a MUCH better image of the helmet from the google art project

x-post from /r/ImaginaryMindscapes - The Art of Imagination

Some Words from the artist about his project:

> I have always believed that the science and art can be used for a larger social purpose. As a creative person, this gives me more satisfaction.

> Yin Yang is a result of the same kind of belief and thought process. Everyday natural disasters and environmental hazards triggered the observation that the state of environment is imbalanced. Hence the idea – “Bring back the balance” was born. To visually depict it, I used the popular Chinese symbol “Yin Yang”. The symbol describes the state of balance between two opposites with a little bit in each. I wanted to explore this irony that exists between the symbol and the present state of environment.

> It was quite a time consuming campaign. Before starting off, I invested a lot of time in doing research regarding the factors, causes and reasons behind different kinds of environmental pollutions. It was followed by a number of sittings with the illustrators in my team to finalize the style and scale of detail of the artworks. The rough sketches were done for more than a month by me and 2 illustrators. The original illustrations were hand drawn on wall sized sheets. I tried for as much detail and reality as possible. The illustrations were then painted with watercolors, photographed and digitalized. The last leg of the campaign involved the laborious task of retouching. It was pretty challenging to keep the synergy of earth colors (green and blue) intact while bringing forth the black and white of Yin Yang in the artwork, at the same time. It took the team more than 6 months to draw & paint and 3 months to retouch the whole project keeping in mind every single object in it. Now, here is the final result in front of you and it seems now the effort was worth all the time.

source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/26176737/YIN-YANG

I'm not a scientist so I just did a quick Google search. This article makes sense to me. Do you have a source for the "truth is" statement?

Edit: To clarify: this is an article on the reliability of climate models

Hey! I'm the founder of a company that allows you to reimagine your artwork using artificial intelligence. I ran this through one of our filters and here's what came out. Pretty cool :)

https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/Oao0GL6wSX

Many people use Photoshop, but there are lots of other tools out there, including one of my personal favorites: Krita! It's completely free and built from the ground up for digital painting (as opposed to e.g. photo editing). Check it out here: https://krita.org/en/

> It's just a bunch of screenshots stolen from this video/artist.

I wouldn't say it was stolen; OP gave credit to the artist (Alexey Zakharov) in the thread title.

The artist has both the "screenshots" and the videos on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/18362139/FUTURAMA-3D-part-1

I remember liking very much the definition of quality from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, where the author at some point defines quality as "the relation between the objective and the subjective". A quality chair has to be pretty, but it also has to support your weight.

To me, a lot of modern art fails the "quality" test, because as much effort as the author may have put thinking on the "subjective" side, to me it still fails the "objective" part by looking, well, lazy. My brain refuses to accept that a guy who sculpts a full-sized person in marble down to individual veins and a guy who puts some canvas in blue paint for 10 minutes should be taken at the same level.

I acknowledge that there are some brilliant works that challenge in a smart way the idea of what art is and/or should be. But unless you post the full background, unless I understand what's the "subjective" part of this piece, all I see is the "objective" part. And for many challenging works, the way I see it, the objective part is quite easy and therefore unworthy of attention.

This is very competently painted - well done. I am inclined to think that some of these comments are offering somewhat unnecessary insight. The painting might be slightly overworked, but it is worth killing a painting to learn something.

One of the most important things in painting is the willingness to try new things and abandon what "worked" last time. This can be hard as you get older and set in your ways (or you are deliberately developing a specific idea), but it is paramount when you are young and starting out. It is a great idea to look into all of the artists listed in the comments and spend some time looking at the paint qualities (hit the museums or at least super-hires images like Google Art Project) and, when possible, reading about their approach to painting. Many beginning painters make the mistake of finding one artist they can fetishize and superficially imitate.

I am also inclined to think that internet critiquing has some major shortcomings. I don't intend for that to be an inflammatory statement, so much as a warning - - only you can really know what you are going for in a painting. Again, it is better to fail, destroy a painting, and/or noodle it to death and learn something. Of course, criticism can still be very worthwhile and you don't want to be conceited about your work.

Here are a few of my crappy self-portraits from the first year of painting. I was 21, I think.

I used Processing for this one. It's an easy to use programming language for visual artists. And its free. Openprocessing is a portal where you can find many examples for generative art/design provided with code.

I recognize this image! This illustration is used on the front cover of the paperback copy of the Spanish language novel El Entenado by Juan José Saer. But instead of a cat in the man’s head, it’s a collage of eyes

Outus 12 Pack Mini Canvas Panels for Painting Craft Drawing (3 x 3 Inch) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K1YPMQ6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_MkszzbH2KPWG0 couldn't find 2x2 (but I also didn't take much time to look). Averages out to a little over a dollar per canvas! Amazon rocks.

https://www.amazon.com/wall26-Illustration-Standing-Stairway-Stretched/dp/B073PRMPV7/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=samurai+wall&amp;qid=1564667871&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-4 I thought it was same one for a sec.

I'm still learning, but I recently got a book about sketching and it's pretty great for the basics. It starts off with cubes, measuring lengths/angles and generally teaches how to see things as an artist (instead of focusing on objects and how you think they should look, focus on the shapes/shades etc). It really made things much more fun to draw because once you get a few simple lines down, you already know (or measure) the relative length of the rest. Once you can do that, you can learn how to shade objects, how light appears on them, then start working with colors/paint etc.

Heres the book I'm talking about: https://www.amazon.com/Sketching-Square-One-Trafalgar/dp/0615855342

I'm not overly familiar with chess rules but would the game be valid if you set up the board wrong initially?

Edit: According to this thread it doesn't invalidate the game. However one shouldn't even begin the game with an incorrect set up. If one does, then both players are responsible, and by some rules, must continue the game.

It is very cool to be able to walk through the museums like Google Street View. I think it would be amazing to have an entire museum done like this and then have gigapixel imagery of the artifacts....not just art museums.

A lot of people are recommending software that has a fairly high entry cost. I highly recommend you check out Krita, this software is free, open source, high quality with features that rival the most expensive options on the market.

It is totally focused on being a digital artwork tool (not a photo/image manipulation tool) that happens to have some art applications) and as such comes with hundreds of brush presets and a ton of tutorials on how to get started.

Here's the Amazon link: Book

An artist that I recommend you check out is Soey Milky. NSFW She is one of the few people that I've seen that successfully balances both ideas of, fine art realistic paintings and anime/manga stylization.

Umm, well, I use Photoshop cc, brushes are here and process goes something like this.

Embarrassing first step is just a mental reminder what overall statement I was going for; I wanted the collar to pop as much as possible. Then follows sketch, then I scramble in some color that serves as a starting point. From there it's mostly refining, I don't really use a lot of special things. The last step of the highlights was done with a color dodge layer and a very dark purple-blue, other than that it's all normal layers and painting much like you would on canvas.

A lot of people have released their brush settings on places like deviantart so you could just search for whatever brush you want. Most of the time you can download a zip file but if you don’t want to do that you can look at a screenshot of someone’s brush settings and change yours accordingly.

If anybody wants to try to make stuff like this on your own without buying a $1,000 GPU, you can try out Dreamscope. It's not possible to do this with apps like Prisma because they don't offer custom filters.

We have unlimited free image creations as well as a monthly subscription for unlimited high resolution image creations.

Here's a portrait of Tony Stark using this same style: https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/3qUGuEjsS4

To make your own just go here: https://dreamscopeapp.com/editor

I love this artist. He rejected all the impressionism happening around him and most of his works are based on biblical or classical mythology. This is one of my favorite pieces of his (have it hanging in my bedroom). I'm also very partial to his work 'Samson and Delilah'. You can just see the malice in her eyes...

http://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/samson-and-delilah-1882?utm_source=returned&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=referral

The blocks of color in the background are subdued green and magenta (never use black in a painting). Though the picture does make the magenta appear quite black, yikes.

They are used to enhance color and to give a graphical feel to the piece. The hands are floating in space, so it already doesn't make much sense from a formal perspective. The strings carry the weight of the visual experience, while the blocks help guide the eye around the piece. The strings tie up the meaning. Anything else we felt would be too much so, the design elements came.

My partners specific style is very graphical and I felt the blocks helped the piece become more integrated with our aesthetic tastes.

Examples of his work

What would you have done?

/r/ImaginaryMindscapes

The Art of Imagination

A subreddit dedicated to surrealistic landscapes and thought-provoking imagery. Art is the stored honey pot of the soul, spirit, mind and body.

https://www.behance.net/trylea

Here ya go

https://society6.com/aenami/prints https://gumroad.com/aenamiart

(She doesn't sell specifically this one as I think it is part of her sketches, but she has a lot of different works as well).

It's colorful, but this isn't a single oil painting. The masking is apparent - for example in the tree on the right, the upper halves of the outer branches are partially transparent. It does not appear to be natural transparency of paint, but an artifact of a masking brush with too soft of an edge.

Edit: Here is what appears to be the source for the bottom corners of the image.

As I just finished Kushiel's Avatar, that was my first reaction too. I suppose it's the other way arround though; on this page the artist says it's inspired by the Book of Enroch and the Kabbalah tradition. Jacqueline Carey probably drew her inspiration for the religion of Terre D'Ange, the Yeshuites and the Melehakim from there as well. (Great books, by the way.)

Ah. Allow me to disagree. Being (making a living as) an artist is as difficult as it ever was, in this sense: it's lots of different kinds of difficult, but always hard.

If one is rich, one bemoans lack of inspiration. If one has a strong spirit, the test is limited, precious, diminishing and too often wasted time. If one is poor--or, worse (from this perspective), a may-succeed, may-not-succeed businessman, one wants dosh. Lots of it. Surely that will solve my problems.

Your problem is not that there do not exist people who will buy your work. Your problem is spending time not creating art to gather enough of those people together to sustain your effort.

There is plenty of demand for content. There is little good filtering of all the content available.

Best, Will

*reference: 1000 True Fans (blog), The Long Tail (book)

You can also buy empty gel capsules that are literally any color. Like black. You don't need to fill them if you're not going to swallow them.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00PYV616W/

Here's some yellow ones for example.

Ok, so you need to get and read "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."

Almost everything it says about brains and art isn't actually true, but it is an excellent model for the early development of drafting ability. The short version is that you're drawing what you think you see based on your memories of other people's drawings. You aren't drawing what you see.

Eyes aren't ovals. Noses aren't a line. Eyes are the width of the nose and are halfway froth chin to the very top of the head. You know that your picture doesn't look like real life but you're having a hard time seeing where it's actually different.

Read it, do the exercises. All of them. Next, take a figure drawing class. Just about when you start to feel you're getting good at drawing what you see, read anything by Andrew Loomis. Humbled, you get to start all over again and learn how to draw what you see and also make an attractive picture.

It takes about ten thousand drawings to develop competence and one hundred thousand to develop mastery. Don't worry... They get easier and faster. Many of them will be thirty second sketches but you do need them all.

Get going.

Your friends are wrong. Don't let them discourage you.

Try reading "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. It's probably one of the best drawing guides out there and it addresses this very question. Basically, to draw accurately you must be in a certain state of mind that allows you to see your surroundings in a special way. Seeing in this way allows you to perceive your own picture plane as a collection of edges, spaces and shadows that you can then recreate on paper. Some people stumble upon this mindset by accident, and we call them "naturally gifted," when in fact anyone can access that state of mind if they are taught how.

Anyway, check it out from the library. It's excellent.

OR... the owl is missing an eye. There is an entire story behind that missing eye that we can only guess at.

if you like this kind of art then you should check out /r/ImaginaryMindscapes.

source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/terra-nao-e-fonte-de-lucro

and progress pics: https://www.behance.net/gallery/6426537/XII-Encontro-Regional-de-Agroecologia

and the lamps expire.

A line from the poem “The House Of Caesar” by Viola Garvin, infamously used by Robert E. Howard (Creator of Conan the Barbarian) in his suicide note.

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You should! It's a cool town!

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Quite a few artists are using Krita now, which is entirely free (and open source). It's not, like, the shitty budget option, though; by focusing on digital painting rather than photo editing, they've produced something that a lot of people prefer to Photoshop.

Might make things a bit more accessible, since PS costs more than the actual hardware.

/u/-seva- is spot on. I went to art school and in the beginning I thought the world began and ended with realism (the goal being photorealistic). Several instructors and a few books later and I realized how wrong I was. One book said it best when it stated that you're never going to get more realistic than a photograph so why even try. If someone just took a picture of an eye or a car or whatever with nothing added to give it context would it be art? No, it would just be a snapshot. /u/Naggins is correct in that it isn't creative; it's just a reproduction. That's not to say photorealistic work can never be art but you have to give it context and a message; you have to think conceptually. Spend more time trying to create a distinctive style and pushing the boundaries of your work conceptually. Photorealistic work that is conceptually lacking will impress people who aren't knowledgeable about art (usually parents, friends, and family) but it will fail to make an impact on the more sophisticated audience. I say this to you not to be a dick but help you avoid a lot of wasted time as I did. If you are just doing this for practice then have at it as it's certainly a good skill to have, but it is not art because it doesn't provoke an emotional response from the viewer or contain any conceptual message. So by all means, do what you love to do, but be aware of just what it is that you're doing.

Oh, and if you're going to keep working on this one keep in mind that eyelashes aren't flat, they're cylindrical. They have form and a range of values. Give them volume. A good example of this would be M.C. Escher's eye with the skull in the pupil. http://www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/eye

Just saw this yesterday! Here's the link if anyone wants to build it:

https://www.amazon.com/Rolife-Crafts-DIY-Accessories-Construction-Playset-Best/dp/B079HT6FK6/ref=pd_ybh_a_48?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=VQ0RFABY02DDT6RH3TXM

edit: love the addition of the social distancing guides

Hey OP! I can see some good recommendations, including one for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's a fantastic book, and will improve your observational drawing many times over. However, observation is just one skill type that makes someone a good artist. It's a really important first step that will make it much easier to practice later.

If you aim to draw from your imagination, you need to understand form (drawing and understanding 3-d shapes), value (light and shadow and how it relates to form), and perspective, as well as others, of which observation is one. The best way to do this is to practice endlessly drawing objects. I draw figures, portraits, and still lifes, but you can draw whatever you like. Generally books are good for reference (e.g. anatomy and proportions) rather than practice, but I will admit that Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is great for beginners.

EDIT: How I practice is to do a short warmup of practicing freehand straight lines, circles, perspective grids (google them!) and ellipses, then for an hour at a time drawing something that I feel I'm weak in (hands, at the moment). I do that for a few hours a day. If you feel unmotivated, resolve to just do 10 minutes. Once you start loving the practice, that 10 minutes will suddenly become an hour or more without you even realising it.

I don't know who the artist is on this one, but it's quite a common scene, also with the same signature

Tineye for the win (sadly still no artist name but at least there's a location) https://hypebeast.com/2014/2/pow-wow-hawaii-2014-exploring-the-new-contemporary-movement-honolulu-museum-of-art-school-recap

https://tineye.com/search/d36a139341f917440916fdc0442f26a013e53c41

Thomas Cole is one of my very favorite romantic painters. I was so blow away by this series the first time I saw it. The Voyage of Life is similarly stunning, covers the life of a man, his highs and lows, struggles and triumphs, so on. Hard to get a good idea with out seeing them larger so google images.

2019? This was used in 2018 already. It's a shutterstock image by Barandash Karandashich.

Man, you reposted my post from imgur. http://imgur.com/gallery/NLdyAhr But I'm so glad to see my friend's work get appreciated though! If you like Katy's stuff, you should support her! https://www.patreon.com/katylipscomb?ty=h

It's a whole show on joe rogans podcast. It literally blew my mind how important sleep is. It relates to higher rates of all cause mortality, heart attacks, brain disease. Even if you only lose an hour or two of sleep it can greatly affect your next day.

Check it out if you want

Edit: Follow up Podcast with Matthew Walker on the Kevin Rose show

Since it hasn't been mentioned at all: while the gallery is in Alexandria VA, the subject of the painting is the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. Hence all the comments about feces and all that.

Check out the book, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". It's on Amazon and explains symbol drawing really well and how to avoid it.

From my memory of reading the book, symbol drawing is the way you learn to represent things as a child. For example, you draw the sun as a circle with rays coming out, or a house as a square with a triangle roof on top. Having these symbols is the way the left hand side of your brain, the side that prefers symbols and language, can translate what you see on to the paper. When drawing, it is important to engage the right hand side of your brain to draw what you actually see in front of you, rather than the symbolic version the dominant left side wants to see.

Hope that helps, it explains it a lot better in the book.

Edit: Grammar

Some stuff to help, Jack Hamm books, Loomis, How to draw the Marvel Way, Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, Burne Hogarth, Vilppu Drawing Manual, Study Life Drawing, Study your stick figure, acting over pose, Start with a Silhouette before creating a character, Thumbnail before the drawing, Perspective books. Draw on paper for a while. Start with Vilppu, if you want to go classical, then The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition by Anthony Rider it is pretty advanced and takes a lot of time. This is a great progression. Keep it up. You should be very proud.

I've been drawing my whole life, only started life drawing this year (27yrs old) after reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I can't agree with you more, I honestly wish I had done it from the very beginning.

Great work, btw. Incredible detail.

Gustave Courbet! Nicely done. This is sort of a long shot, but did you draw that during a practice exercise from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I only ask because you said that you were starting out and I know that Betty Edwards uses that drawing for an exercise on light logic (I just read through that chapter last night).

On android I use AnimGif Live wallpaper to set gifs as my wallpaper, there are probably some other great apps that do the same thing. Can't speak for iOS though.

Wood firing is nothing like Raku. Raku shocks the pores of the pottery to open up (high temp) and then suck up ash from burning material it is submerged in. A lot of time people use newspaper or wood chips. This is why raku tends to have very dark, if not black, coloring. A good wood kiln will tend to leave minimal ash deposits but will instead turn the ash itself into a glaze. It tends to have a very earthy / natural look once finished.

You can use glaze in a wood firing but a lot of time people will leave the piece unglazed to see what the ashes do inside the kiln. It really is a magical experience because you never know what the kiln will provide.

Pretty good :) most people have a couple of long creases across the palm - one from the outside, one from the inside, and one downward describing the ball of the thumb meat. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/palmar-flexion-creases-1258067533

I can only say, as an older man, some of my biggest regrets were based in decisions made because I didn't trust my own judgement. So I'll just say, trust yourself, which could be read as, believe in yourself. Everyone feels like a fraud, except for narcissists. Everyone has self-doubt. You can read interviews with people at the top of their game and they almost all talk about being afraid people will realize they're a fraud.

And on the subject of seeing nothing but mistakes, that's a pretty common trait among great artists. A whole lot of both performing artists, painters, sculptors, etc., talk about the frustration of seeing the imperfections in their work.

Just enjoy the process. Immerse yourself in your work; get into that flow state, give it your best and enjoy your life. The alternative is to be miserable and unproductive. So, trust yourself and throw caution to the wind.

That's the best thing I can tell you.

Really nice. Looking forward to seeing the finished painting.

The scared/surprised look is partly because of the whites of the eyes. Even in normal light, they tend to be quite dark. Everything else around there is also usually dark, due to the shadow cast by the brow.

The old master trick was to make the ridge or tip of the nose the point of highest contrast, every other value transition (including the edge of the whites of the eyes) was adjusted downwards.

Can't go wrong looking at Rembrandt:

(http://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt#supersized-self-portrait-220476)

And now YOU can do it too with this simple tutorial. And here is the photo traced here.

It depends what you want to do. It's not that technically proficient and if you're drawing to get good, you'd start with studies that resemble this content--bone and muscle structure underneath the skin and anatomical proportion. It's cool as hell but his proportions are off and you can tell he's not great at lineweight or shading or actually rendering a real human face via this technique. This is honestly just math. His "off the cuff" stuff wouldn't be nearly as good. If you have a critical eye and are actively "learning" art, you should be able to do it in a month if you're an absolute beginner and draw stick figures. And that's not nonstop working. That's just learning basic construction and taking time to plan out your drawings first.

Get Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, and then go pick up a book by Burne Hogarth or Andrew Loomis and you'd see how to do this.

This dude posts a lot and his work looks pretty but technically pretty flawed.

if you're interested in taking some time to read a book and maybe buying a few art supplies. "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" a book by Betty Edwards is pretty amazing for improving your drawing technique by leaps and bounds(from personal experiance). You can find it on Amazon.Link

As always, I recommend Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's not exactly neurologically accurate since it was written in the 70s, but the principles are exactly what you learn in Drawing 101 at art school.

My intro to drawing class was heavily influenced by a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

I know there are a bunch of tutorials posted at /r/learnart every few days. And they are usually good at answering questions over there too. You may want to check that place out.

Though I haven't read it myself, Learn to Draw: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has been heavily recommended from numerous people. I definitely suggest checking it out: http://www.drawright.com/

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a fantastic resource for learning about "seeing" which is more valuable than any technique.

If you want instant results with painting, I'd recommend checking out Bob Ross, your first painting will be amazing, guaranteed.

Most of all: **practice, practice, practice. **Buy some Moleskines and pencils (varying shades) and start drawing the world around you and what pops into your head. Don't be embarrassed about not being good when you start, the main thing to remember is that through quantity you get quality.

Good luck!

Found it on Ebay. Scroll down to see the picture.

Since a few people were asking about prints, they'll be on my website. There's not a whole lot up there now, but more will be coming soon. http://www.scottbuon.com

Also, I post a LOT of drawing on Instagram, and make upcoming print announcements there too. https://instagram.com/scottbuon/

He was in the Documentary "Who the F!*k is Jackson Pollock?"

He helps this old female truck driver prove that a painting she bought from a thrift store is, in fact, a real Jackson Pollock. He finds his fingerprints but the art world still rejects his proof.

Edit: I realize this is stated in the article but it was long and i didn't know if people stuck with the article. The documentary was on Netflix Instant last time I checked

Lifelong sufferer here. This Mayo Clinic overview should answer your questions. There are a lot of can be's thrown into the overview, but when you hear about migraine sufferers, its usually the severe throbbing and completely debilitating type. I wouldn't not classify yours as minor migraines, maybe just consult a doc if it's an issue.

Hey! Love the artwork. I've cross-posted this over at /r/Smite - who will be releasing Pele, of which this reminded me. Hope you don't mind! I made sure to link back to this and give credit where credit is due.

How fun. The bottom one is an engraving of the Acropolis of Athens when it was under Ottoman control (early 1800s). The tower on the left was a guard tower. When Greeks gained independence in 1832 they cleared away anything that dated from the Byzantine, Frankish, and Ottoman periods. The other is a Picasso print. Flower Vendor in Montmartre.

I bought the black version of this Israeli paratrooper bag. A 11X17 sketchbook fits in the main compartment nicely. There is a pocket under the front flap that holds many supplies and has loops to hold pens/pencils. The canvas is durable (I've had mine for several years now no rips or frays) and the carry strap is strong enough to support quite a bit of weight. It does expand to about 8-9" in depth if you really stuff it full of things.

Always nice to see a friend's work get recognition! Yay!

I would encourage anyone who likes Pascal's work to join his &quot;Sketch of the Day&quot; group, so you can get fresh tasty treats such as this delivered to your inbox every day.

Hey guys, I recently made a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the merchandising of my illustrations and artwork. I only have 2 days left to fund the project, and still need plenty of pledges to make it happen! If you like this design, I have 4 others, as well as designs for koozies, slipmats, stickers, patches and more!

Heres the link -

Skin Walker

Ive got a lot of good feedback from Reddit, and I hope you guys enjoy this as well!

Thanks for checking it out guys!
the painting was done for my Game project Dragon Fin Soup, if you are interested checking it out, here is a link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimmbros/dragon-fin-soup

hmm it looks just like zdislaw beksinski to me. his art was posted here a few days ago.

edit: and yes i find this picture disturbing.