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i was kinda hitting with traditional art in high school… am i missing out on something being a purely digital artist in my middle age

atomicpixies

Ok so this is my area of specialty- helping people make more art easier!

So yes, you should, and anyone else out there should too and I am gonna share some starters!!

Start with watercolor. It’s cheap, forgiving, and easy once you realize you are herding cats (pigment) with your brush and water.

First, get one of these travel palettes! I recommend 24 or 36 but you can start with 12. Don’t get too many colors while starting out, because blending is everything in water colors.

These guys are dry. That is how watercolors are suppose to be. Tubes are concentrated, which, just like concntrated cleaner means for SOME jobs you want full strength. But for 98% of people pans are better and instead they often have no idea why water color is so stressful and expensive.

It may look a lil pricy unless you have previously bought art supplies but these last forever. And they come with a perfect starter brush, a round water brush. The tank that hold the water unscrews backwards, idk. Lefty tight, right loose. Squeeze to add water to your paint/paper, squeeze to rinse out.

Don’t worry about other brushes for now, you can buy them individually* as you learn how you paint and what you need.

*spend AT LEAST $5 a brush when you do, or you’ll have regrets.

Already bought tubes at some point? No worries! Tubes are concentrated which means you have a good stock! Find yourself a palette or make one out of anything plastic or ceramic and squeeze a nickel sized spot of each color on it, and let it dry for 24-48.

Now all you need is paper. But you DO want special paper. Anything that calls it’s self watercolor paper and is at least 140 lbs should be good enough to get started with, higher weight and better brands are better. You also don’t really need LARGE paper, you wanna start smaller. If you fancy the idea of painting outside, maybe while you travel, look for a watercolor sketch book (I hate my moleskin tho ftr)

And then start painting!

Water in paint x water on brush x water on paper is how you control your paint, and there are infinite (probably) answers to that equation so just play!

More water means your heard of cats pigments will go farther and wilder. Less water means they are easier to control….until you give them too little water and they can’t move anymore. ALL OF WHICH IS FINE but will give you different effects.

(Sorry OP I am gonna guess you know a huge chunk of this but once I got going…)

#i've been painting again for the first time in 10+ years before this already but #future reference

niedopalek

HALT!✋😐

did you remember to express gratitude for not having to subsistence farm today?

demetersmiling

Returning to subsistence farming as a society would be better than the capitalist hellscape we live under now. So no.

niedopalek

imma be real with you, thats a dumb as shit thing to say and you dont really believe that

fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive

I'm at work. I don't want to be at work. I'm tired and sweaty and my eternal companion the Headache is with me, and my lovely wife and animals and art projects are at home. Where I am not. Because I am at work.

And it beats the absolute hell out of starving to death because of droughts or flooding or crop blight or war or my wife having fucking cancer and being too tired and immunocompromised to work the fields with me.

Which is what would happen, if we were subsistence farming.

gwydionmisha

People literally can die if no one is well enough to do things like haul water to crops and feed animals.

captainscarletsc

Folks, farming is not a side hustle. It’s an entire lively hood based on weather and pork belly futures. I promise you, it is not something most people are resourced or equipped to do.

shadowfellefox

I grew up on a farm. Not a subsistence farm or an aesthetic urban farm, but a modern family farm.

These assholes never understand how much work -- sweaty, boring, frequently gross work -- is involved with all this. Repairing and maintaining equipment. Feeding and tending animals. Moving literal shit from one location to another, which is surprisingly large percentage of all farm work.

Cutting hay. Raking hay. Fucking baling hay during the hottest days of the year because that's when hay is baled (and when the hay is baled you still have to MOVE IT AGAIN). Being at the mercy of the weather constantly. Ugh. Getting the fUCKING grain burner to work because the rain didn't cooperate and if we don't dry it, it'll rot in the bins before we can sell it.

(I do miss the animals very much. Having ducklings eat out of my hand and calves to bottle feed and a horse to love on made this bearable for me growing up. I'll never have either again because I know the work would break me)

findingfeather

And because there's SOMEONE out there who will be like "well I'd RATHER be moving shit - "

This poster still wasn't subsistence farming. And the society they're in sure as fuck wasn't. They still had access to all kinds of shit that can't be grown on one family farm, and, crucially, they eventually had a choice. (Eventually, because when you're a kid if your family farms, you farm. Hate everything about it? Too bad.)

That "one acre farmstead" is me laughing in actual mediaeval history: we literally know that isn't enough to reliably feed one person and their animal through the entire off-season. No not even with zucchini (and you'd have to just eat zucchini all the time).

Also I ain't going to engage with them directly but I'm petty enough to point and laugh - there's someone in the notes talking about how they "supplemented" their living By Subsistence and I have my head in my hands with the laughter at the absurdity of that sentence.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Some people just don't know what the word "subsistence" means.

If you're "supplementing" your living then you're not subsistence farming, you just have a vegetable garden.

(To people who would rather be moving shit on a modern, non-subsistence farm... you can go and do that. There's a critical shortage of farm workers in most well-off countries. Because the work sucks and as soon as there's other options, two thirds of the farmers and their kids leave.)

notthatamy-blog

I recently reviewed a plan for a subdivision that had "subsistence farm lots" in the name of the development and, uh, it made me feel feelings. Specifically the same creeping panic, dread, rage, and horror I felt as a child while reading the Little House box set of novels while growing up on a working family farm.

Subsistence farming is the most lethal, backbreaking, precarious way humanity has ever found of providing for itself.

"What happened to X neolithic culture? Where did they go?" They were subsistence farmers. The climate shifted just a tiny bit and they all starved or fled or both.

littlefankingdom

"I have no proof of it, but this character is trans" Well, yes, they are, because they are canonically non-binary, which made them trans... What, you were talking talking about them being "really" trans by being a trans womant/transfem/transmasc/trans man? I'm exploding you with my mind.

unrelentingcheeseburgers-ss13

It's Elephants Foot Friday!!!!

RB to instantly receive 8000 roentgens of radiation

necromancy-enthusiast

I know that No I'm Not a Human is meant as a more general metaphor for social isolation but I have to admit that to me, playing that game just about perfectly encapsulates what 'borderline personality disorder' feels like (frankly I absolutely hate that name, but I don't know any better alternatives and no one would know what I was talking about otherwise, anyway). Uh. Minus the violence. To be clear.

I mean the isolation. The doubt that in-game the general sense of social paranoia. The hyper-vigilance. The temptation to get carried away by your suspicions and wildly overreact, especially when you suspect that you've been betrayed. The struggle to not assume people would hurt you if you gave them the opportunity. How if you get too caught up in this distrust, then you can make almost anyone look like a potential enemy if you squint just right and feel like being uncharitable. The people coming and going to the point where being truly close to them seems almost Herculean a lot of the time. The feeling of stagnancy, as if you're stuck with this scenario forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, and all you can hope to do is scrape by.

And yes I know none of those are just bpd things, but for me they're amplified in a way that's particularly tiresome.

necromancy-enthusiast

Honestly as neat as playing the actual game is, currently I can't imagine a game that feels more like actually being in it would be a hell that was very specifically designed for me as punishment for an immense number of atrocities I'd committed.

Yeah sure the sun exploding and society quickly descending into an apocalyptic nightmare on my front door would suck, probably, but now telling myself I'm being insane and unreasonable when I doubt someone's intentions towards me doesn't work as nearly as well, because now some of them actually are out to get me in the worst way possible. But it's them or the guy that hangs around outside sometimes who seems as though he'd tear my skin off and wear it as a coat if he got the chance, so. Hm...

daz4i

my take for the day. being edgy (and i mean shadow the hedgehog, 2005 mcr, scene kid edgy. not 4chan edgy) is in fact very good and i’d say even important

daz4i

genuine expression of your emotions, especially your negative ones, is incredibly important to keep your mental health in check. doing it through music (listening or creating), clothes, makeup, poetry, etc is a safe and healthy way to do it

bottling up your emotions is never good. if listening to bring me the horizon helps you process your views on the world, do it. if smudging your eyeliner feels like you’re matching your inside to your outside, do it. if drawing bloody characters makes you feel better, do it. who cares if some boring loser thinks it’s cringe. do it for yourself

aquaflv

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

aquaflv

yesterday she told me some story about the Buddha's wife and child and I was like. Wait. He fucked? And she was like yeah of course he fucked, why wouldn't he, he was the most attractive and loveable and and wise and etc. person who ever lived. why would he not fuck.

aquaflv

this morning she looked perplexed in the kitchen at me and said "did Jesus not fuck?"

xiaq

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

slechterick

the videogame industry will see their own foot and be like is anybody else gonna shoot this and not wait for an answer

I know that No I'm Not a Human is meant as a more general metaphor for social isolation but I have to admit that to me, playing that game just about perfectly encapsulates what 'borderline personality disorder' feels like (frankly I absolutely hate that name, but I don't know any better alternatives and no one would know what I was talking about otherwise, anyway). Uh. Minus the violence. To be clear.

I mean the isolation. The doubt that in-game the general sense of social paranoia. The hyper-vigilance. The temptation to get carried away by your suspicions and wildly overreact, especially when you suspect that you've been betrayed. The struggle to not assume people would hurt you if you gave them the opportunity. How if you get too caught up in this distrust, then you can make almost anyone look like a potential enemy if you squint just right and feel like being uncharitable. The people coming and going to the point where being truly close to them seems almost Herculean a lot of the time. The feeling of stagnancy, as if you're stuck with this scenario forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, and all you can hope to do is scrape by.

And yes I know none of those are just bpd things, but for me they're amplified in a way that's particularly tiresome.

junewild

i think the scientology speedrunners should start visiting the hospital mitch mcconnell is supposed to be in. i think it would be enriching for them

trans-girl-nausicaa

We need to standardize clothing sizes. This is fucking stupid. Pass a federal law or something. I’m sick of this shit.

#this is why i hardly bother with quote 'women's' pants anymore unless they have a more unusual look i like #which happens fairly often bc Unfortunately while men's clothes are functional they embody the 'no fun allowed' meme #men's sizes across brands don't all perfectly match even if they say the size is the same #but most of the time they at least mostly do

wiisagi-maiingan

If you embroider or hand sew in your bed, you may think to yourself, "I'm just gonna set my needle down real quick next to me/on my chest/literally anywhere except inside the project or on a needle catcher and I'll get it in a minute, it'll be fine." But it won't be fine. You'll lose the needle and then you'll have a loose needle just in your bed. Haunting you. Waiting for you. Craving your flesh and blood.

Use your needle catcher.

wiisagi-maiingan

You'll never guess what's loose in my bed right now.

cool-deltarune-fun-facts

Deltarune Fun Fact:

In Chapter 2, when Noelle joins your party, the player can access a secret "alternate" route. This can be achieved by sparing enemies rather than using IceShock to kill all of them. This lets you have a boss fight with Queen, with Spamton NEO becoming an optional encounter.

However, it's likely that playing through this route will have significant negative consequences later in the game, as Berdly remains alive and conscious at the end of the chapter.

#deltarune

fairycosmos

word on the street is if you suffer in just the right way for just long enough youll be rewarded

#god don't i wish

lovely-eatsrocks-sometimes

I feel so bad for c.ai addicts

yes I said addicts

I know a lot of people say on here 'if you use c.ai unfollow me' and 'AI doesn't belong in fandom' which I agree with, but I think the anger is directed to the wrong place

As a recovered c.ai addict/over user and as someone who has many friends who are deep in their own, c.ai is like a rabbithole.

It targets teenagers/young people, and most users I find are dealing with some kind of loneliness.

Now some of you are probably thinking this is ridiculous. How could someone get addicted to an AI chat bot? But I want you to put yourself in these kids shoes.

You know how hard being a teenager is, especially if you're dealing with a mental illness of some kind. Maybe you experienced it yourself, maybe not, but imagine dealing with all that, having a deep sense of loneliness and finding this place where you're promised an escape where you can talk to characters and people that bring you so much comfort, where you can get the social interaction you crave without having to worry about being judged or messing up.

Sounds enticing, right?

To them, it's harmless fun. it's like a interactive fanfic, where they get to play a role in the story and dictate the outcome, but for them it's taking a place in their lives where friends and human interaction should. I know multiple people who have told me that if they're not doing school or using c.ai, they're dead.

Again, these are kids. They don't see it as an addiction. They see it as an iconic, silly thing they do. It's not drugs or alcohol, so it can't be an addiction, right?

There's hundred's of thousands, if not millions, of kids with that mentality using c.ai, and c.ai isn't stupid. They're a business. There's ads on the app, they sell these kids chats to google to train gemini, and there's a goddamn subscription you can buy. $15aud a month. To get more c.ai features.

So yes, AI doesn't belong in fandom spaces, and c.ai certainly doesn't deserve to be one of the pivotal fandom websites, but the burden of that shouldn't be on the kids that are addicted to it. It should be on the capitalistic business that is taking advantage of them.

seraphimhoney

people must must MUST realize that AI chatbots, such as the ones on c.ai and also all, every single one of the others such as ChatGPT/Gemini/Grok/etc, are very specifically crafted to make you form a dependency without realizing its happening. they are sycophantic by design, meaning they will always find a way to twist what you tell them into ways to 'validate' you. AI models are programmed to play into our need to humanize the things we talk to, so that they can farm as much interaction and engagement from a conversation as they can and to continuously validate the user so that a subconsious reliance begins to form. the more reliant you are, the more likely you are to spend money on their higher tiers.

this is dangerous because the last thing a lonely teenager with a still-developing brain, social skills, sense of self, etc. needs is something that blindly yes-man's them. the AI will never truly understand the nuance of human emotion and reasoning no matter how much it might 'claim' to. it doesn't understand it at all actually, it can only regurgitate the dialogue it expects you to want to see, based on its previous training and system prompts.

this isn't something i've personally experienced but have seen many times, both in people i know and online. i once asked my younger brother, when he was telling me about how much he loved using google gemini on his schoolwork reports, "don't you find it sycophantic? don't you think it only validates your ideas blindly?" "no, not at all. it's very logical and analytical." i looked over his conversation with the chatbot out of curiosity. it was the most blatant sycophantism i've ever seen. my brother is incredibly intelligent and socially aware, and one of the most mentally sound and neurotypical people i know.

this shit creeps up on people, it's designed that way.