#my very first full painting!

[defira85]

Sat here for 10 minutes trying to think of something witty or clever to say and came up blank, but I painted! @aurriearts was proud of my art practice and offered up an art trade and I decided that meant I needed to do just way too much in order to challenge myself and make sure he didn't regret asking me

So. This is his Sidestep from Fallen Hero, Suranga Fernando! Why is Sura in what looks like a bad part of London instead of Los Diablos? Who knows! That's the fun of it.

Thank you for the challenge Chris, and I hope you like it <3

[cozystars]

the bros now have a new passion to share :)

bonus!

[id in alt]

[motherforthefamicom]

finished redoing the customs of my ocs (jason, left. reagan, right) i mentioned in this post =D

it was a ton of fun finally painting again, i had a bit of trouble (eapecially w reagan since i have no pictures of her original custom) but i think they turned out really cute nd thats all that matters X3

also heres a pic of them w max for good measure (another oc from their little story, i might make him a custom one day since his designs changed a bit but id want a dupe of his base for that, so hes just gonna stay unchanged until then)

[cuddlytogas]

yesterday some friends and i went to the special ancient egyptian pharoahs exhibit at the ngv, and i got so utterly entranced by a linen funeral shroud, i think i saw god and/or went completely insane for about fifteen minutes

the fibres were so fine. and not just fine, they were uniform. it was from the roman period, so only (only!) 2,000 years old, but the fibres were still so fine and uniform

i'm not good at identifying weft and warp on a piece of fabric - i think i got it wrong while i was looking at it - and obviously it's very hard to know what's inherent to the fabric and what's the product of degradation over time or mishandling, but there was this long, thin tear right down the middle, and i thought it was maybe a seam that had come apart, but the painting alignment didn't quite fit that, and there were a few threads crossing through it that i could see, so i wonder if maybe one or two weft threads had degraded or torn or been pulled loose. but the tear was so straight and exact, and held together at one end by the other fibres, it was so incredible to see

and there were a couple of places where i thought there were slightly chunkier threads - it happens all the time in modern linens - but when i looked closer, i could see that actually it was two threads in the same part of the weave (warp threads, i think?)

and again, okay, could be a product of the degradation, or damage - but also... it could so easily have been a slight fault in the manufacturing, and i don't know the first thing about ancient egyptian weaving techniques, or what kind of loom they did or didn't use, or any of that - but still, it was so easy to imagine these two warp threads being set slightly too close together on a loom, and being caught together by the weft, and leaving this slightest bulge, this perfect imperfection in the cloth

it was beautifully, intricately, colourfully painted, too, yes - but underneath that, i can only imagine that lovely dun, beige colour was unbleached and undyed; and yet again, yes, of course it would've darkened with age and use - it was a funeral shroud, there was a corpse under it once - but to look at this linen and see the colour of the flax two thousand years ago, it's just - absolutely mind-boggling

the whole exhibit was deliberately structured around highlighting the craftsmanship behind the artefacts, as well as the power, social structures, and cultural significance they represented, which was fairly well done. I watched that video after seeing the exhibition, and in hindsight, yeah, I did notice that many of the labels highlighted the detail and excellence of the items, and they had things like jewellery moulds and scribe's tools, as well as the big impressive statues and murals. at least a couple of the room introduction wall texts made sure to mention craftspeople; and there were a few places dedicated to both the bureaucratic structures, and working people and villages, that created and kept up the temples and palaces.

but there was also definitely a slight lack of information, i felt, in regard to the crafts, especially if that was their goal. i might also just be underestimating the general public, but there were a few times where we were wondering what something in an image was, but found nothing in the label; and it would've been cool if they, perhaps, had images or recreations of craftspeople in the period showing how the items would have been made.

like, obviously i'm biased towards the fabric, because that's my craft - and to be clear, the shroud was part of the room on jewellery and adornment, with the label pointing out the jewellery worn by the painted figure, rather than the craft of the item itself. but it would've been cool to have, in this example, either a contemporary image or a recreated one of what tools would have been used for the spinning and weaving of this cloth, and by what groups.

there were many parts of the exhibit where you could see on the glass where people had pressed their hands or noses or foreheads to try and get close, to see the intricate work on tiny rings or murals or votive items, the engraving and carving and painting done with such incredible skill. and again, they had those scribe's tools, and jewellery moulds, a few weapons, and (iirc) both ritual and functional builder's tools. which i DID VERY MUCH appreciate!

but fibre arts are already often devalued in our culture, and with industrialisation, we've really lost sight of the work and skill that, for thousands of years, went into making fabric. i would've loved to have seen them highlight not just the image of jewellery on this shroud, but the shroud itself.

because, yeah: this linen was beautiful. and to see this cloth, with these fibres that are finer and more uniform than many modern fabrics... like, obviously it's very good linen - the label only said it was for a woman called Isetweret, not what her status was, but i think it's a safe bet she wasn't the proletariat - but still.

just. i really fucking love history, oh my god

[mbat]

im still not done with my rewatch but i SWEAR its so obvious that the stuff cass did didnt come out of nowhere if you were actually paying attention to her over the course of the show. like sure maybe people dont care about her as much since shes a character that wasnt in the movie, but i mean come on. like everything is right there in the text, the stuff she did was absolutely not out of nowhere

[bluehexagone]

Realism is fun till it isn’t and I realize I’ve already committed too far and can’t just scrap it but I know it will take me too long so here are some sacrifices you may see finished later on

[southhillprison]

hello juba nation...

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent game related things .. hrmm...

[gaydonweaver]

sometimes I think about the future and the very real possibility that I won't be able to afford to live one day let alone as my preferred self. anyway here's hivemind.

[wampabampa]

Guess who got a new job…

…Me !!!

Woo hoo !! Goodbye Pizza maker and hello Donut giver!

While it was unfortunate I had to go, it was for the sake of my mental health! In the many jobs I’ve had, I have learned one thing: Try to avoid working for family owned businesses (specifically the ones where the family is very involved in, and its the food industry!) Of course this is just my own advice based off my experiences!

Now the entirety of America runs on my Donut expertise.. yippee!!

Also also! I plan on posting a redesign of the OC above (along with introduction) after I finish the halloween im doing! All i need to do is do the background :,-) Not much will change with her but still!! Changes Changes..

Bonus ghost Howdy doodle!’

[mimiri22-6]

I was going down the old yt rabit hole, just watching 9 almost 10 year old videos nbd, and I came across the age old argument/explination/confusion/huh/what/¯\_(ツ)_/¯ of Mangle of Five Nights at Freddy's FUCK'N TWO's gender. Along the lines of; his pronouns are Loudly he/him in-game, but the fandom would not shut up about, but it's a girl, look at her, girl foxy. Period done shut up about it-BUT THEY'RE CALLED HE/HIM!!! Fuck it, they go by they/them now, fuck you, fuck me, fuck Mangle and it's gender. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is ALL those fandom fights ending in fire and tears and bloodshed came back full force and I went

"FUCK IT, BIGENDER MANGLE!" As like a knee-jerk reaction because GOD it's been a fight in the trenches for literally almost a decade. AND THEN I went "oh fuck, bigender Mangle. It all makes sense now." And then holy choir rang out and god in her holy he/her glory bestowed upon me some mediocre cheesecake of which I ate all of it in one sitting...Where was I? Ah yea, amazing how fast that war could have ended if being bigender was more widely known back then, but hey, we can finally put down the pitchforks now right?

...Right?

"There are still only 2 genders, no one can be both at once!"

Motherfu-

[plumpatch]

nara puppy plushy dreams :-) for my intro painting class

[shadowsandstarlight]

The painting is done. It is currently in the process of being flattened, I don’t want to take pictures until it’s flat so it won’t be warped. It’s far too nice an artwork to share photographs of it warped.

[h0neyfreak]

My latest art student wants to learn to paint with watercolors (specifically flowers) and I am primarily an oil painter so if anyone has any tips on beginner watercolor projects/how to teach watercolors to a teenager….please help.

Also this is through a nonprofit so supplies are limited. They have a mid range pan palette and I sent good paper and brushes etc. but I only have the standard technical abilities not a whole lot of artistic vision/flair for the medium. Also also this is all virtual.

[david-box]

Successfully got offline today instead of just scrolling through Tumblr all day. I wasn't really as productive as I planned, but I still had fun and some things can wait :-)

USER WAS PLANNING NEW ART PROJECT WITH TWO TO FOUR TABS OF THE SAME PDF FILE OPEN ON DIFFERENT PAGES, A WORDPAD DOCUMENT OPEN AND PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, SEVERAL NEW CANVASES AND THE SNIPING TOOL USED

[hitmonrocklee]

follow up question if you did/do: what does your journal look like?

follow up to the follow up: what did you do with the journal when you finished it?