doing the art thing

Mine very own art blog for may art, other art, and art commentary. I sell some stuff on redbubble and need to add the link oops.

[donuteater13]

Reblog to kill it faster

[lesbian-toddhoward]

[itsforexposure]

it’s never too early to teach children about the devaluation of labor!

(from an American Girls book)

[art-dweeb]

Babie’s first entitled commissioner

[feministfront]

As a fiber artist, it BREAKS MY HEART when creators post in one of the fiber art Facebook groups I’m in that “I made this, I’m charging X, is that too much?” and the picture will be a stunning queen size afghan and the price they’re worried is too high is 50$. i just want to shout “PRICE OF MATERIALS + TIME IT TOOK TO MAKE @ MINIMUM WAGE” at the minimum.

people undervalue art so drastically that artists end up undervaluing their hard work.

[artskls]

me: i should draw something with a background

me: -paralyzed with indecision-

[artskls]

was doing some sketch practice and things escalated 😅

Sea of Stars is a ✨stellar✨ classic rpg that may be released in 2023 but has all the magic of of 1990s classics. This game was made with love ❤

[barladera]

[creativepromptsforwriting]

The amount of creativity I possess when I have absolutely no time to do anything with it is astounding.

[lilacandladybugs]

The lack of creativity when I have nothing going on is disappointing

[tench]

[artskls]

here's a botw/totk Goron!Link design and various goron sketches i made beforehand while i deciphered how these round rock people worked

[akimillustration]

Deku//Goron//Zora

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

I gotta find the sweet spot between “I create art to make myself happy” and “if this post doesn’t get more reblogs I’m gonna light myself on fire”

[bugofmanynames]

DEAR ARTISTS, PLEASE READ THIS POST I STUMBLED ACROSS

IF YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS ALREADY, YOU SHOULD TRY IT

I even tested it out myself, it works great

[wordsmith30]

You know what makes me the most upset about the use of AI in our culture? It's not just removing artists from art or devaluing human creativity -- it's treating people like they're disposable.

Oh, you're not that special. We have computers to do that now. If you died tomorrow, we have your image. We have your voice. We have your biometric data. We can just duplicate you, it's no problem. Who needs flesh and blood? Who needs agency and free thought? Who needs the human soul? You're just a tool. And when we're done with you, we'll just toss you aside and find someone else.

Creatives, listen to me, and listen to me good: you have a voice and it matters. There is no one in the history of the world who is exactly like you, in this time or this place. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, speaks like you, moves like you. There is nobody else built like you. Nobody else with your unique experiences and outlook of the world. You are a product of history, of culture, of art, of love, of pain, of possibility. Don't let them take that from you.

[rhubarbes]

Jalal Merzoug

[caterpie]

Super Mario hanafuda card set (2007)

[artskls]

finally tried Krita 👀 built in paintbrushes and pencils be nice

[skullchicken]

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people’s art more than your own:

It’s the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You’re probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a “does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?”-kind of way.

I think that’s also why sometimes, pictures you haven’t looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: “Hey past-me was unto something! Why can’t I replicate it nowadays?”. It’s probably specifically because you’ve forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don’t be so hard on yourself: it’s probably just that you can’t see the magic right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

[aydromysis]

You just put something into words that I have been feeling for a while. This might actually get me to try digital painting again, thank you.

[skullchicken]

Omg, I’m glad to hear 💖

[as-warm-as-choco]

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

[the-time-goddess-of-221b-deacti]

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

[starsintheskysandsontheshore]

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

[sodeartomyheart]

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

[firey-rising-demon-deactivated2]

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!