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Macnult

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

I figure since I post so many drawing of my wife, you guys would like to see her art.

This one is called 'The Tide Against Moloch' - 3" x 4" pen and paint on card

'Danger and Dangerous Assumptions' - Acrylic on board

She's well good, and her style, composition and subject matter all differ from mine so greatly that there is almost no competition between us, which is a thing that frequently breaks up artist couples.

# ? Jan 27, 2017 14:53

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# ? May 15, 2024 10:39

Macnult

ladybeard mcflurry posted:

today i designed some namedrafts for weaving. i'm working on making some upholstery fabric for my new couch since beans ate our current couch and now it has a big hole. anyway.

here it is, this is the basic design of what the fabric will look like but not blue and white:

the fun part about it is that there's a secret message in the fabric. namedrafts are essentially a way of encoding a secret message within the warp and weft thread intersections to create a pattern that can then be read by another weaver that cracks the code (or if you make up your own code, as most are likely to do--it's your own personal joke.) this one used a standard single alphabet (A-Z, 26 character) code, single repeat, reverse* pattern in overshot on 4 shafts. it spells out "eat poo poo and die," then reverses it and mirrors it, in 26 threads. fun!

i really like the pattern even if it's secretly telling me to do things i'd rather not do.

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Work in progress

can't wait to see the finished result!

# ? Jan 27, 2017 18:28

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

plugging along. Just posting these in case anybody is curious about my painting process

# ? Jan 29, 2017 04:56

HotSoapyBeard: I'm a really cool nice dad
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DavidAlltheTime posted:

I've been obsessively making linoprints. Nothing beats carvin' that buttery rubber!

Lino is so fun, they're cool!

I put some things I cut out of paper on the wall

# ? Jan 29, 2017 12:17

Professor Shark

I find with linocuts that it's really difficult to call "done" on a project, since there is always a little bit more to improve on... I'm calling this guy done for now, though!

# ? Jan 29, 2017 17:27

DavidAlltheTime: All David...all the TIME!

As if I haven't learned that stamps go backwards. AS IF.

I think I will turn this into a fridge magnet.
By the way, has anyone used this darker, harder, thinner lino before? I like the way it cuts (really clean, less bits), but the ink I have just beads on it. What gives?

Professor Shark posted:

I find with linocuts that it's really difficult to call "done" on a project, since there is always a little bit more to improve on... I'm calling this guy done for now, though!

Very cool! And I know what you mean.. Linocutting is really bringing out my perfectionist side (not that you can tell from my examples posted here).

# ? Jan 29, 2017 20:40

Randy Travesty: PHANTOM QUEEN

i almost always used the darker, harder lino when i pulled prints. what ink are you using? if it's a dye ink and not a regular printers' ink it might bead up. a thicker viscosity ink is probably better for the lino panels over the latex type panels. like i said upthread though, i haven't done block prints in a long time so poo poo might've changed since i did them!

# ? Jan 30, 2017 02:45

Doctor Dogballs: driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station

Recent drawing I did.

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# ? Jan 30, 2017 14:57

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Doctor Dogballs posted:

Recent drawing I did.

you have a beautiful family

# ? Jan 30, 2017 19:24

RazzleDazzleHour

Here's Some poo poo

# ? Feb 6, 2017 19:17

Macnult

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Here's Some poo poo

i like this poo poo. the first image is really cool and the "unspeakable horrors" in the third picture made me laugh

# ? Feb 6, 2017 19:24

ghosthorse: ...you forget so easily...

I want to share some stuff I've done semi-recently if that's cool. I borrowed someone's drawing tablet to try it out and then made bad pun-based Spider-man edits about Uncle Ben Grimm

# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:09

Macnult

ghosthorse posted:

I want to share some stuff I've done semi-recently if that's cool. I borrowed someone's drawing tablet to try it out and then made bad pun-based Spider-man edits about Uncle Ben Grimm

lol these are good

# ? Feb 13, 2017 17:43

Rushi: by Smythe

guys i read every update completely amazed - but i just try to not spam the thread with bumps which is dumb because all your art is great and I should :hai:

Rushi fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Feb 15, 2017

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# ? Feb 14, 2017 09:30

Chill la Chill: Don't lose your gay

Hope this is ok. Not exactly drawings but I do paint models from time to time. Not as well as our resident spaceman though

This is a ship from the cartoon show "Rebels". It's a fast ship, so I wanted to make it look like a racecar~

Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan

_{_{thank you matoi and vanisher for the sigs, lovely dad for the cool av}}

# ? Feb 21, 2017 03:19

MrWillsauce

ablution

# ? Feb 21, 2017 03:26

Robot Made of Meat

Chill la Chill posted:

Hope this is ok. Not exactly drawings but I do paint models from time to time. Not as well as our resident spaceman though

This is a ship from the cartoon show "Rebels". It's a fast ship, so I wanted to make it look like a racecar~

Art is art, Chill. And art is good.

Thanks to Manifisto for the sig!

# ? Feb 21, 2017 05:12

Scathach: You know that thing where you sleep on your arm funny and when you wake up it's all numb? Yeah that's my whole world right now.

hamjobs posted:

today i designed some namedrafts for weaving. i'm working on making some upholstery fabric for my new couch since beans ate our current couch and now it has a big hole. anyway.

here it is, this is the basic design of what the fabric will look like but not blue and white:

the fun part about it is that there's a secret message in the fabric. namedrafts are essentially a way of encoding a secret message within the warp and weft thread intersections to create a pattern that can then be read by another weaver that cracks the code (or if you make up your own code, as most are likely to do--it's your own personal joke.) this one used a standard single alphabet (A-Z, 26 character) code, single repeat, reverse* pattern in overshot on 4 shafts. it spells out "eat poo poo and die," then reverses it and mirrors it, in 26 threads. fun!

That is all kinds of awesome. Man I can't wait to have room for my loom and wheel

# ? Feb 21, 2017 09:37

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

I actually finished this last week, but I'm so very, very lazy that I never posted it.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:18

Piso Mojado

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

I actually finished this last week, but I'm so very, very lazy that I never posted it.

jesus christ dude

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:24

Piso Mojado

question for the painters. how do you know when a peice is done?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:26

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Piso Mojado posted:

question for the painters. how do you know when a peice is done?

honest answer: when you're so sick of it you can't paint any more. also, when the things you need to fix outweigh your abilities. for example, I've been agonizing about getting the woman on the far left right to the point where I erased and re-drew her about half a dozen times. At a certain point I just had to throw my hands up and say, "welp, better luck next time."

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:30

Manifisto

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

I actually finished this last week, but I'm so very, very lazy that I never posted it.

this is so great

I can't decide whether I want to marry an astronaut lady or a painter who will paint me as an astronaut

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:01

Macnult

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

I actually finished this last week, but I'm so very, very lazy that I never posted it.

looks good! thanks for posting your progress with it a little while back too

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:57

Rushi: by Smythe

Piso Mojado posted:

question for the painters. how do you know when a peice is done?

There is this really popular saying I've heard art teachers use, which is something like;

"Making art takes two people, one artist to make the art and someone else to kill the artist when the work is done."

Its honestly really normal for an artist to hit their limit on something, have it look real decent, and just fr*ck it up realizing when its a little too late. If the work is savable they possibly display it. (This sounds way more morose than it means - but its something I've been speaking to classmates and instructors about lately, in fact I had a teacher say this to me when I had the exact thing happen during a self portrait)

Also old phrase I heard in Civ3 (or was it 4) paraphrased; "the artist knows when a work is done not when theres nothing to add - but no more to take away".

And somewhere in that jumble of words is a rough partial answer to that very hard question :3:

nobody fr*ckin' knows, even the greatest biggest most planned paintings really just hit a point where they had to ship

edit: oh my L*RD i swear a lot when talking about art :3:

Rushi fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Feb 25, 2017

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# ? Feb 25, 2017 00:14

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Rushi posted:

There is this really popular saying I've heard art teachers use, which is something like;

"Making art takes two people, one artist to make the art and someone else to kill the artist when the work is done."

Its honestly really normal for an artist to hit their limit on something, have it look real decent, and just fr*ck it up realizing when its a little too late. If the work is savable they possibly display it. (This sounds way more morose than it means - but its something I've been speaking to classmates and instructors about lately, in fact I had a teacher say this to me when I had the exact thing happen during a self portrait)

Also old phrase I heard in Civ3 (or was it 4) paraphrased; "the artist knows when a work is done not when theres nothing to add - but no more to take away".

And somewhere in that jumble of words is a rough partial answer to that very hard question nobody fr*ckin' knows, even the greatest biggest most planned paintings really just hit a point where they had to ship

edit: oh my L*RD i swear a lot when talking about art

also, it's honestly hard to know when you're done when you first start out. I can futz with a piece literally forever, so I'll save small images of the work if I'm doing digital art or take pictures if I'm painting. Very often I will rework and rework something for days and find that when I look back at the pictures it's either not better or sometimes it's not as good and I have to work to get it back. over time, though, you kind of get a feel for how much time you're spending on something vs. the amount of progress that's being made. also, when I start something I have a pretty good idea of what I want the finished piece to look like. when it looks like that, I stop with the major changes and work on the little details and color fixes as a sort of end-game that I've learned to rely on.

# ? Feb 25, 2017 00:27

Macnult

Wasn't too thrilled with this, but I sold it to someone today so that was nice.

# ? Mar 1, 2017 00:36

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Wanted to draw something fun

# ? Mar 5, 2017 04:38

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Wanted to draw something fun

these are all so awesome, like she's escaping from the psychiatric hospital

# ? Mar 5, 2017 04:50

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

Luvcow posted:

these are all so awesome, like she's escaping from the psychiatric hospital

yes, exactly

# ? Mar 5, 2017 05:05

DavidAlltheTime: All David...all the TIME!

# ? Mar 5, 2017 07:18

Macnult

DavidAlltheTime posted:

I really like the top left one

# ? Mar 5, 2017 16:57

Professor Shark

Can furniture concept art be considered art? This is my next project:

It's a foot stool/ step stool/ sitting-on-after-mowing-the-lawn-and-drinking-a-beer stool I want to make. I'm going with the design on the very bottom of the page, I found some recast vintage bottle openers I want to attach to a couple sides.

# ? Mar 5, 2017 19:54

Slammy: Great speech.
PPHPFT!!

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Wanted to draw something fun

Hello new wall paper.

any place to buy your works, Godspeed?

# ? Mar 8, 2017 03:56

Robot Made of Meat

Professor Shark posted:

Can furniture concept art be considered art? This is my next project:

It's a foot stool/ step stool/ sitting-on-after-mowing-the-lawn-and-drinking-a-beer stool I want to make. I'm going with the design on the very bottom of the page, I found some recast vintage bottle openers I want to attach to a couple sides.

I like these drawings very much. Have you noticed that you have a handle fetish? Anyway, it's good, and it's indeed art.

Thanks to Manifisto for the sig!

# ? Mar 8, 2017 04:52

Professor Shark

I had not considered my possible handle fetish before, I bet there's a few hours of psychology in there.

But seriously, I had trouble figuring out a way to put them on that was practical and cool looking. DIY goons suggested going with the side handle configuration, but the the integrated handle/leg one looks cooler imo, it reminds me of how on boats or subs they have handles that act as guards for sensitive equipment, so I may go with that.

If I ever get around to it I'll post pictures, I'll call it functional art!

# ? Mar 8, 2017 21:10