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for stream last night, people asked to see how i would stylize animal as anthros. i did photo studies to start, then showed how id transfer the information from those studies into stylization!
the animals are bunny, ermine, crow, alligator, and frog ^_^
IT IS FINISHED!
I don’t want to know how many hours it took, but it turned out rad as hell so I’m not even mad. I’m now the proud owner of an orange bead curtain 💙
Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their capture
One of the best things that ever happened to me was during my trip to Venice 5 years ago. I had bought an all-inclusive ticket for all museums and exhibitions in the Piazza, and I was going through an exhibition of statuettes when I entered the next wing with paintings. The styles seemed somewhat familiar, but I couldn’t work out what was happening. Thankfully this incredible lady working at the exhibition saw that I was a bit confused and approached me to ask if I knew what this exhibition was. I said no, just that it had seemed interesting.
She explained that the reason why I might be confused is that I had entered the exhibition of Wolfgang Beltracchi from the end rather than the beginning. She then took me to the start and started explaining about him and his history. He has art forgeries in every style from medieval paintings to modern art and his forgery is not copying existing paintings but creating “lost paintings” that the artist might have painted or talked about painting but never did. He perfectly matched the artist style, composition, ideas, colours and medium. His materials were historically accurate and experts couldn’t determine that they were fakes.
And his wife Helene Beltracchi was incredible. She helped “backdate” paintings and provide evidence of their age. One of the things that stuck with me the most is this black and white photo, created with an old-time camera and medium and the photo itself was aged so carbon-dating couldn’t discover that it was a modern photo. It was of Helene, with her features slightly altered, dressed in an old-time, era appropriate dress with the painting in the background. can you imagine the level of dedication and the immense attention to detail required to so convincingly fake a photo to provide a reliable history of this painting existing for centuries? She helped him create fake history for a lot of his paintings.
I’ll never forget that exhibition. There were so many paintings, all of them in the styles of different artists, most of them verified by experts as genuine until his mistake with the white paint which prompted a much, much deeper examination by experts. I think the lady mentioned that they could still not forensically confirm that some paintings were fakes, but it’s been a while, I might be misremembering. I was just struck with awe at the sheer knowledge they must have of multitude of painters, not just their styles, but their lives and the way their minds worked. He painted scenes “they might have painted” and when you look at them, you could definitely see it. It hits especially hard when you have more than passing familiarity with the artist, their lives and struggles, their choices of mediums and themes. You can look at this painting and think, this is definitely created by []. It makes so much sense, it has that distinct flair and works incredibly well as a parallel to [], their earlier painting. It was indescribable. Can you imagine the skill required to back that knowledge up? To be able to perfectly mimic the styles of so many artists and be able to so accurately forge paints, brushes and canvas that experts verified them as genuine?
And he had his own original paintings as well. One of them struck a chord with me especially. It was a painting of storage rooms, storing thousands and thousands of paintings that the public doesn’t know of, because they’re the unpopular paintings, the paintings that never get exhibited, the forgotten paintings. I thought it was very poignant.
I love these people. They really did do it because they loved art, they loved playing around with art forensics, and they just had a blast. Seeing his gallery brought be such incredible joy and so many interesting things to think about. 10/10, would definitely recommend
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
WHAT
Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
What?!
Imagine if the kits ever came with instructions, considering the plastic cased ones always had pictures and shit on them anyways… Could have included instructions for the water arts smh
Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.
I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.
Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.
Support real artists ☀️
I'm not letting you leave this in the tags
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The Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a chunky finch with a distinctive crossed bill used to pry open conifer cones and extract seeds. Adult males are brick-red, with a forked tail and dark wings.
This is part of the British Birds on British Bluefaced Leicester limited edition series. These are the final four colourways, making 24 in all. I have enough yarn left to re-dye four only so please don’t miss out!
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Know your insect antennae!
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.
Allright if 20,000 people are going to post a story about a painting I did of my wife, then I am going to post the painting itself.
For those calling for justice, the same painting won a contest at my college (my university professor had met my model), and the university bought it from me and hung it up there for over a decade, square little feet and all. Then, the library underwent renovations and a librarian I am thankful for forever went through heroic measures to track me down again even though I'd gotten married and changed my name, and offered it back to me. And now it hangs in our house even though my wife doesn't ordinarily want to look at paintings of herself and I don't normally want to look at paintings I made. We both have a soft spot for this one.
draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it
youre literally allowed to do anything u want forever. i hope this helps
accept the fact that youre not necessarily going to be happy with the end result and allow yourself to draw it anyway. hope this helps
I made a little zine!
You can download and print it yourself for free here
This image hurts my brain more than the original debate ever did. Brains are dumb.
i wanted to like make sure this was legit and stuff so i took a section of the left and stretched it over to the right and jesus fuck
rb for the last pic being the best demonstration by far
“This is why I draw in black and white” was all my sleepy, horrified boyfriend could say.
Holy…. you know what… this last image is probably the only image that has ever been able to convince me this brain hack was a real thing and we didn’t all just roar onto the battlefield because half of us had been hideously duped… we were all duped. By our own brains.
This . This is why dfjkbhkm
ID 1: Gif demonstrating an optical illusion. Two anime girls are shown, one wearing a black and blue dress, the other yellow and white. Except they are actually the same colors, just on different backgrounds.
ID 2: A still image from the gif, with one part of the image stretched, so it covers both background colors.
ID 3: Photograph of a person wearing a dress. The parts of the dress in direct sunlight appear yellow and white, and the shadowed parts of the dress appear black and blue.
ID 4: A two row drawn comic explaining the situation.
The first row has a blue square at the left titled “blue refracted light” with the word “blue” being in parentheses, a yellow lamp titled “yellow direct light” with the word “yellow” being in parentheses, and three dresses at the middle. The original dress that is in the very middle is white and has yellow stripes, and it’s titled “gold/white object.” The dress that is next to the blue square is darker, and the dress that is next to the yellow lamp is lighter.
The second row has the same square, lamp, and dresses at the same position. But this time, the original dress is blue and has black stripes alongside being titled as “black/blue object.” The dress that is next to the square has stripes that look dark blue. The dress that is next to the lamp is lighter.
The dress next to the blue square in the first row and the dress next to the yellow lamp in the second row looks similar due to the lighting. There’s a transversal black arrow that is pointing at those two dresses and a circle that is showing that they have the same color, which is titled “same result.”
At the bottom left, there’s a line titled “reality” that highlights the blue-black dress next to the yellow lamp.
[End of IDs]
here's my wonderful isopod child, handcrafted in leather
I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao
[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]
ITS NOT A PHOTO????????
5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles
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Not a physio or any kind of health professional so take this with a grain of salt but I've personally found using a massage gun helpful for waking up dormant muscles. I'm going to try and incorporate these exercises in with the ones I was given by physiotherapy.
Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.
The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.
These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.
(all credit to my physiotherapist)
These hand exercises for knitters can help with hand pain.
what it says on the tin! I offered to throw together something on drawing raw meat (in a mouthwashing server, naturally) so here it is in case someone finds it useful
So, I saw this image on Facebook, and it was supposedly showing what Queen Nefertiti would have looked like in real life:
Now, I thought this AI generated garbage was just truly terrible on a number of levels; first off, she looks wayyyyyy too modern - her makeup is very “Hollywood glamour”, she looks airbrushed and de-aged, and as far as I’m aware, Ancient Egyptians didn’t have mascara, glitter-based eyeshadows and lip gloss. Secondly, her features are exceptionally whitewashed in every sense - this is pretty standard for AI as racial bias is prevalent in feeding AI algorithms, but I genuinely thought a depiction of such a known individual would not exhibit such euro-centric features. Thirdly, the outfit was massively desaturated and didn’t take pigment loss into consideration, and while I *do* like the look of the neck attire, it's not at all accurate (plus, again, AI confusion on the detailing is evident).
So, this inspired me to alter the image on the left to be more accurate based off the sculpture’s features. I looked into Ancient Egyptian makeup and looked at references for kohl eyeliner and clay-based facial pigment (rouge was used on cheeks, charcoal-based powder/paste was used to darken and elongate eyebrows), and I looked at pre-existing images of Nefertiti, both her mummy and other reconstructions. While doing this, I found photos of a 3D scanned sculpture made by scientists at the University of Bristol and chose to collage the neck jewellery over the painting (and edited the lighting and shadows as best as I could).
Something I see a lot of in facial recreations of mummies is maintaining the elongated and skinny facial features as seen on preserved bodies - however, fat, muscle and cartilage shrink/disappear post mortem, regardless of preservation quality; Queen Nefertiti had art created of her in life, and these pieces are invaluable to developing an accurate portrayal of her, whether stylistic or realistic in nature.
And hey, while I don't think my adjustments are perfect (especially the neck area), I *do* believe it is a huge improvement to the original image I chose to work on top of.
I really liked working on this project for the last few days, and I think I may continue to work on it further to perfect it. But, until then, I hope you enjoy!
Remember, likes don't help artists but reblogs do!
The thing i think that i like the most about the corrected image is around the mouth. The statute's mouth has ... a lived-in look. You can see the beginnings of age asserting themselves there, a thing that AI, of course, did away with entirely.
But the corrected mouth has smiled and laughed and cried and screamed, and it shows.
But the corrected
mouth has smiled and laughed and cried
and screamed, and it shows.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
"here's what she may have looked like while alive!" "oh, what did you base it on?" "a bust made of her while she was alive"
the fact the ai still managed to fuck it up is astounding
