#artistic method

[nixdragon]

i wanted to draw a cute little dragon like my profile pic but like decent because i have a tablet now

it didn’t work

then it didn’t work

then i drew a weird skeleton man

then i said screw it and drew a really fancy, detailed dragon head

then i drew a cute little dragon on top of it for funsies 

it worked.

[methodbase-blog]

GOLDEN RATIO

WHAT IS IT FOR?

Artistic method to create more beauty that resembles the proportions of nature.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

“Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book [The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number], Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and rose petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it. It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Salvador Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been found to be connected to the behavior of the stock market! The Golden Ratio is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.”

WHEN SHOULD IT BE USED?

Any 2D or 3D modelling.

SOURCE

Mathematician Euclid Quote and more information:  https://books.google.se/books?id=w9dmPwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Picture: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/y7uac/this_is_clearly_why_the_hair_flip_is_so_popular/ Brought to you by Tehilah Auramo

[hello-artistspeaking]

While making it I said to myself: let me not leave before there’s something of an autumn evening in it, something mysterious, something with seriousness in it. However, because this effect doesn’t last, I had to paint quickly. The figures were done with a few vigorous strokes with a firm brush — in one go. I was struck by how firmly the slender trunks stood in the ground — I began them using a brush, but because of the ground, which was already impasted, one brushstroke simply disappeared. Then I squeezed roots and trunks into it from the tube, and modelled them a little with the brush. Yes, now they stand in it — shoot up out of it — stand firmly rooted in it. In a sense I’m glad that I’ve never learned how to paint. Probably then I would have learned to ignore effects like this.

Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh 3 September 1882

[ismster]

Science vs Art

"If we don't build the lab, somebody else will. It will get discovered. If we don't explore the moon somebody else will. It will get discovered. That's one of the hallmarks of science that distinguishes it from art. In science, if you don't do it somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the ninth symphony then nobody else before or after will compose the ninth symphony. Nobody is going to paint starry night by Van Gogh." ~Neil Degrasse Tyson