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I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

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Yes.

Genuinely fucking despising how anti-intellectual and puritanical the arts community has become recently.

Surrealist art: “HAHA LMAO WHAT WERE THEY TRIPPING ON”

Art with symbolism: “HAHA ITS NOT THAT DEEP, THE CURTAINS ARE JUST BLUE”

Modern art: “HAHA MY KID COULD MAKE THAT”

Art depicting nudity: “HAHA GOONER ART”

Art in any form aside from painting, drawing, or sculpting: “HAHA THATS NOT REAL ART”

Art with exaggerated or stylized anatomy: “HAHA THATS SO CRIIIINGE, LETS ALL DOGPILE IT ONLINE”

Art uplifting figures who aren’t conventionally attractive: “HAHA POORLY DISGUISED FETISH”

Art uplifting fat bodies: “HAHA POORLY DISGUISED FETISH”

SFW furry art: “HAHA POORLY DISGUISED FETISH”

Artist dares to put a little detail into certain elements: “HAHA POORLY DISG-“

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Hiram Powers, 1805-1873

Eve disconsolate, designed 1858/60, carved 1872/77, marble, 198.2x57.5x65.9 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum Inv. 1968.155.6

Eve Disconsolate was also known as “Paradise Lost” and “Eve after the Fall” and depicts Eve in the moment after she succumbs to temptation. Hiram Powers created this figure because he was not completely satisfied with his earlier statue Eve Tempted, which he felt did not adequately convey the “expression of bewilderment, distress, and remorse, which must have appeared on the face . . . of Eve.” Powers often created different versions of a statue for different clients, and the bust of Eve Disconsolate was modeled several years before the full-length statue was completed. (SAAM)

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cover art for Kavin's World by Frank Frazetta

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the monthly rothko's from my 2025 calendar: june

black and dark red on red (1958), oil on canvas (x)

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white people have the sauce sometimes and dont even know it

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I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome

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I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.

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The irony of going to a Frida Kahlo exhibit as a disabled person with chronic pain

and there just being not remotely enough places to sit through the exhibition

There were no spots to rest in the room which showed off her prosthetic leg and crutches and medical corsets

There were no spots to rest in the room that displayed her various medications

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🦕👻

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so wuthering heights by emily bronte means nothing to you?

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everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

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Hahahaha Mr. Weinersmith is SICK OF IT

Check out the bonus panel on the site!

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

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Every actor should be this loud about their characters' homoerotic relationships with other men. Rip to the only real ally.