Trying my best

(reorganising my tags, please stand by) You can call me Alyss ♠️ Sometime i remember i can draw

[aliceofblackroses]

What shall we do today ?

Tried to do one of those stop to reveal type gif, i took way longer than i expected, but it was fun. Featuring my oc Nana, who can't keep a job.

(Individual picture under the cut)

[aliceofblackroses]

Will we be friend even if things change?

[zeldary]

Took way too fucking long only for me to not even like it whatever eto bleh

[aliceofblackroses]

A long time ago now (when i was still in Uni) i got around to making a complete lineup of the character from my sibling and i magical girl serie.

I hate it the more i looked at it. I just really felt like i could so much better for our little guys. So, two year i decided that i would just. Remake it.

I wanted to put more attention in the details, the linework and making the character more distinc from one another. I at least felt like i was competent enought to do better than on my first try. (i mean i could at least draw guys better)

And honestly, i think i did it. And so here it is;

The Entire Whole Damn Cast of the Jewelière, which we will definitly make into a comic one day

og under here if you want to compare

[ndsoda]

spirited away

[zeldary]

At first I wanted to draw something serious and somewhat worthy of the song but uh

[julcreates]

So which one do you think suits him best? 👀

[chesh-ires-deactivated20210426]

being nonbinary and a fan of non-human creatures isn’t easy. like i’m constantly struggling with the fact that i’m both like “i wish there was more enby representation in humans” and “i’m the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips”

[ckret2]

the tension between “representing NBs only as nonhuman characters is dehumanizing and othering” and “but monsters, aliens, and robots are so much cooler than humans”

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

[thequeervampiric]

love saying "question mark?" out loud when I'm talking about something i'm unsure of

[zeldary]

Wanted to challenge myself with lineart less art hated it at first now I’m ambivalent

[theobsessedone]

affirmations from the knives out gang ☺️

[inkedberries]

nothing beats an art block like drawing my favorite girl in sexy-cutesy outfits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zeldary]

My entry for Erykistired (on instagram)’s art contest, I usually avoid those but the mirror image was really calling to meeee

Inspo below cut!

[zeldary]

Gay OCs :3

[charlesoberonn]

Don't worry, I got you!

[charlesoberonn]

The most tonally incoherent movie night ever.

[glumshoe]

Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. It’s full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.

[glumshoe]

Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.

[cipherface-deactivated20200224]

I liked this guy’s story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldn’t do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that he’d ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.

[glumshoe]

“The first painting Landis “donated” was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then “everybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to — I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.”” And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.

[skweebs]

Ok, but Wolfgang Beltracchi is probably one of the best Fraud Artists in the world.

His career brought him millions upon millions of dollars and lasted almost 40 years. He finally admitted to painting fraudulent art after the white paint he used came under scrutiny. 

“ Bob Simon: What do you think this Max Ernst would be worth? Wolfgang Beltracchi: This one? Simon: Yeah. Beltracchi: $5 million, I think. Simon: $5 million.  And you can do it in three days? Beltracchi: Yeah, oh yes, yes, sure, or quicker” -From a 60 minutes interview with Bob Simon

In The interview with Beltracchi, he said that none of his forgeries are copies, they’re all original works that the famous artists could have painted.

“Beltracchi estimates he has done 25 Max Ernsts. He is not copying an existing work. He’s painting something he thinks Ernst might have done if he’d had the time or felt like it.”  -  The Con Artist: A multi-million dollar art scam

His wife was also in on the scam, she would dress up in old clothing and take pictures holding the paintings with old cameras to fake proof of the paintings’ ages.

At the end of the interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi he was asked if he felt he had done anything wrong, his answer was “ Yeah, I used the wrong kind of paint”

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible. 

[therobotmonster]

That’s just rapscallionry.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is what AI wants to take from us.

[lucybellwood]

Let’s add Tom Keating to the mix, yeah?

Keating painted more than 2,000 forgeries by over 100 different artists in his sixty-six years. Many had fraudulently sold at auctions with the total profits estimated at over 10 million dollars. “I flooded the market with the work of Palmer and many others,” the artist said. “Not for gain (I hope I am no materialist) but simply as a protest against the merchants who make capital out of those I am proud to call my brother artists, both living and dead. It seemed disgraceful to me how many of them had died in poverty,” he defended in The Fake’s Progress, his autobiography. “All their lives they had been exploited by unscrupulous dealers and then, as if to dishonor their memory, these same dealers continued to exploit them in death.” […] Keating had a great respect and understanding of all the artists he imitated but was always reckless in his handling of the materials. He often used house paint and poster paint to mix in with his acrylics as a cheaper way to achieve the impasto works. At times he wouldn’t bother preparing his antique canvases he found at the junk shops out of laziness, so that in just a few years the paint would peel right off to reveal what was originally underneath. Keating often planted what he called “time bombs” like this in his paintings. Because of his understanding of the chemicals used in art restoration, Keating would purposely paint with layers of glycerin, which would destroy the painting once it was cleaned by a restorer, proving it was a fake. He often wrote obscenities under his paintings, like “Bollocks!”, in lead white so that it could be seen by the experts who x-rayed the painting to check its authenticity.

- Darby Milbrath, Tom Keating on Painters

[bigandretired-deactivated202501]

Let’s goooooooo

[keroa]