#havent done traditional art in FOREVER

[nisazeee]

What are they scheming about???? Certainly nothing silly. Something very serious.

[kausparty]

some traditional sam and max 😁

[vermwerm]

im too lazy to digitalize this rn also im working on smth else anywaye

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

Do u ever have like. An album. Where ur like. I Need to make a game for this. Or atleast art or smth. Like. Damn.

[nowimnothiing]

i havent done traditional art in forever and im painting with my friend so i made a simple silly cat

[lotsadeer]

I'd love to hear more of your ideas for the AU, if you wanna share? 👀

So my first question anon is how much do you know about Cirque du Soleil because that will inform how much you understand the idea of this au and its intensity as a theatre/circus au

For the people in the audience who know not the joys of a Cirque du Soleil show, consider a classic circus. It is entertainment, it is a close knit company of actors and performers and stage hands travelling for months on end, it is a family. They seek to thrill and awe an audience with their skills, their ability to draw gasps and fear and applause and joy in equal measure through the movements of their bodies in the center ring.

Now consider a theatre company, a typical playhouse. It is entertainment, it is a close knit company of actors and performers and stage hands in the confined space of a theatre for months on end, it is a family. They seek to tell a story to an audience, to draw them in and live the tale unfolding on stage through their way with spoken word and body language.

Now find yourself the masters of these crafts. The créme de la créme of clowns and tragedians. Of acrobats and ballet dancers. Of stage hands and technical engineers. Of choreographers and writers.

And you create a performance that is a showcase in the mastery of the theatrical arts. A travelling show like no other that will make the audience laugh and cry in equal measure. That takes the idea of a circus to the absolute limits, and then pushes past them.

You create Cirque du Soleil.

I have, tragically, never seen a Cirque du Soleil show in person. Someday I will! But many performances are available on their YouTube if folks want to go watch to get a proper idea of what I'm attempting to convey.

These shows have moving stages, practical effects, puppetry, pyrotechnics in some cases! Many of the performers are basically olympic level athletes as well as phenomenal actors. The mastery of mime work and traditional theatrical clowns is inspiring. The stories told through the performances are beautiful and moving in ways I cannot always properly describe.

I am forever grateful to my highschool Theatre Tech teacher for introducing me to Cirque du Soleil. Babby theatre nerd me's dream was to be a stage hand for Cirque du Soleil. I dont think I could handle the stress these days, but I can appreciate it from afar.

claps my hands together

So! Now that you understand the bedrock of this AU, lets talk about Treebark.

This is in its infancy and I am still noodling with how I want to do this, but right now...

So my thoughts are that Martyn is a tech hand originally but Grian convinces him to understudy for The Hand. Ren is one of the leads for The Death of the Red King part of the massive story performance.

The original person to play The Hand has to drop from the performance shortly before its set to start touring. So they have to very quickly make sure Martyn is up to snuff (and he is, he's done bit parts before and can act, and they wouldnt have hired him if he wasnt good at the necessary acrobatics).

And Martyn doesnt know Ren terribly well. Like they know each other. Like any circus, Cirque performers are a relatively close knit company. But Martyn doesnt KNOW know him. And this is their first time performing together.

And I havent thought PAST that beyond your typical theatre au tropes where their relationship develops off stage and it intensifies the on stage performance and then add in the circus au where during a performance one of them gets seriously hurt (Ren) and what comes from that. and the drama of everything behind the scenes which culminates in intensity on stage because character bleed is a THING even in acting and theatre.

Also something something audience participation is a thing in Cirque shows

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

i havent tried printmaking but i rly wanna get into it so badd

printmaking and fiber arts are siblings to me

like theyre both technically these utilitily invented mediums?

printing is this invention that made it possible to make the same image a ton of times quickly. basically changing human knowledge forever.

and then well actually lets narrow it down to fiber arts that can create wide areas like crochet and knitting. embroidery and crossstitch modify upon existing areas.

hmm wait so really i wanna talk about textile arts yeah. okay. printmaking and textile arts are siblings to me.

i already talked about printmaking. textiles, is this invention that allows you create and combine wide areas from long strands of fibers. fibers that used to just be a long one dimensional thing. turned into a wide 2 dimensional thing that can be combined and folded into all sorts of shapes, like, clothing. allowing humans to fucking exist in otherwise dangerous weather. okay like, i know they probably used animal skin before fabric. but thats why i said textile arts and not leatherworking. because textiles is a more recent invention.

scrolls up oh wow thats a lot. i swear this only haplens at night its soo weird anyways lets summarize, for you, whoever is reading this, thanks, but alsk for myself because im kinda getting lost in my own sauce

printmaking and textile arts are siblings to me because theyre both relatively recent very important human inventions that fucking revolutionized alot of things but also people are still getting silly with it?

wait now that i think of it writinf techinally fits this too... writing isnt that old i mean relatively on this scale. fuckkk

like what i mean by people are still getting silly with it is that like for example writing. its this fucking big important thing and im using it to communicate whatever this is and saying silly shit. waitwaitwait hold on this something that can be explored further. lets go out of printmaking and textiles and get into this

like this people are still getting silly with it applies to all forms of art that is done right now. isnt fucking insane isnt it beautiful. these revolutionary inventions these old traditions of ways ko expression, still being done by us in our own way, playing with it, making each other laugh with it, isnt it crazy aaaaghhhgh fuck

okay thats it for this post i think

i am aware i might have some mistakes on the facts and really i should be citing shit. sorry about that. didnt expect to go this far

[chanstopher]

Sorry to bother you, but I have just decided recently that I want to get into digital art (I dont draw at all). I have a software I downloaded and now I'm going to buy a drawing tablet. Do you have any you recommend (that are cheap) and/or have any tutorials you recommend? I'm scared even starting because I havent done traditional drawing/art and going straight into the digital world scares me, but I have wanted to do this for forever.

Hey! personally i just use my ipad to draw since i already had it and procreate was $10 but i definitely recommend anything from the brand wacom too, i have a big wacom tablet i use for gfx and i love the brand a lot. but i definitely recommend doing some personal research on youtube because it all really depends on what is going to be most comfortable for you to use. as for tutorials i definitely recommend this youtube channel. i still use her videos to help me figure things out she explains everything really well. also again youtube in general is going to be the best place to find help with whatever program you end up using. there is a tutorial for everything on there lol

[centi-pearl]

started a little scrap book for doodles and journaling and things which i dont normally do , i havent done traditional art in forever and i forgot how satisfying it is??

[glassonlyrecycle]

art trade with the wonderful @good-beans 🥰

(check out her art here!)

process pics + pose ref below cut :-)

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[mageofcolors]

it's been 15 years.............

[sofialeticia]

little growlithe! <3

doodle from an old sketchbook

[somewhat-daily-hannahxxrose]

Hi, day 34! Here’s a more realistic Hannah-

[xingeseprince]

My brother grave me some oil pastels and I wanted to experiment

[image description: drawing of a cheery Edward Elric wearing a trans flag as a cape. He has a bi flag pin on his shirt. End ID.]

[maraariana01]

oh Shi t holy fu ck it's HIM.....,.......,..,.,.,.....

[idontunderstandwhydoyouneedmyurl]

Did some painting to get my mind off things and I feel surprisingly better afterwards