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Finally finished this dang poster. Made the mistake of helping my girlfriend cut her grass and used a string trimmer for a couple hours. My hands were jittery/shaking for a couple days, so there was no way I was gonna try painting like that, glad it's finished. Feel like it took me too long overall tbh. Need to get it scanned, get some prints run off, and get it framed. Wondering if i should apply a layer of matte fixative.
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Sep 12, 2020 20:27
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dog nougat posted:Finally finished this dang poster. Made the mistake of helping my girlfriend cut her grass and used a string trimmer for a couple hours. My hands were jittery/shaking for a couple days, so there was no way I was gonna try painting like that, glad it's finished. Feel like it took me too long overall tbh. Need to get it scanned, get some prints run off, and get it framed. This is excellent and I love it very much.
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Sep 12, 2020 20:52
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Wanna go to that circus!
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Sep 12, 2020 21:22
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Moar coasters. Playing around with staining wood. Note to self: Gesso resists stains .... sorta.The white column is gesso with nothing. The blue column to the right of that is gesso plus stain and the dark blue column is stain with no gesso. Also - white board makes a terrible material for coasters. The very white rabbit on the top right can't take any moisture at all or the white board bulges and warps. 
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Sep 12, 2020 21:28
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Those are really cool! When you say white board, do you mean like that dry erase marker stuff of something else? If you're having problems with moisture you could always give them a coat of shellac, lacquer, or an epoxy resin of some sort.
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Sep 12, 2020 22:06
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A progress shot of the next in my budding "Kaiju attacking Austin, TX" lino series: Also, I finally, sadly joined the club: this is the first time I drew blood while carving. 
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Sep 13, 2020 22:50
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Hello everyone. For the last several months I have been cooped up at home because of what is happening in the world. As the result I have had a lot of time to sit around and work on art. I do not have work right now also because of the virus. So I have had even more time to paint. But I have been without an audience for the most part. Until I remembered I can post stuff here. So here are some of the things I have done.This is the first real art I have made in years. I want to pursue a career. But I have no idea how to sell this stuff               the painting of the cityscape was stolen out of a friends car  before it was finished and before it was properly photographed.DickButt Shitlord fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 06:56
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When getting your links from imgur, you want to select the 'bbcode' option, then when you paste the links into here, add a t in front of each img. Quote someone else's post that has images in to see how they do it. I like these; what's the medium, acrylic?
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Sep 14, 2020 07:31
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Angrymog posted:When getting your links from imgur, you want to select the 'bbcode' option, then when you paste the links into here, add a t in front of each img. Quote someone else's post that has images in to see how they do it. Mixed media. I use a variety. Combinations of spray paint, paint pens mostly oil based. Several different brands, but "Painters" is probably my favorite, gouache, sharpies, and a few others I am probably forgetting. Found the code thing I was looking for thank you for the help! Is posting large images together in the same post going to break tables and against the rules? DickButt Shitlord fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 07:40
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Choda Dog posted:Mixed media. I use a variety. Combinations of spray paint, paint pens mostly oil based. Several different brands, but "Painters" is probably my favorite, gouache, sharpies, and a few others I am probably forgetting. Not a mod, but I'm pretty sure that that's why we use the timg version of the img tag. Though I think you probably ought to split them up into seperate posts just for readability
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Sep 14, 2020 08:37
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Choda Dog posted:Pics I love your style! Makes me feel... warm, I think is the best way to put it. On the other end of the spectrum, my quick & dirty proof of Kong yelling at Austin from top of the Frost Bank tower:  Need to clean up several places, but much better than I was hoping for.
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Sep 15, 2020 02:28
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Trabant posted:I love your style! Makes me feel... warm, I think is the best way to put it. Thank you. The fact that my paintings are provoking any sort of feeling makes me feel I am on to something. I have struggled with figuring out exactly what my style is and only recently have things gone from being a chore to being a pleasure.
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Sep 15, 2020 06:47
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Trabant posted:^ Between your posts here and in the SDS thread, I absolutely love and recognize your style Thanks! I post in like 3 - 4 threads for the most part, but I still come back and check to see if there are like....1-9 new posts if that  I dig that linocut, super cool! Speaking of SDS, it looks like it'd be a cool Eyehategod shirt. Linocuts are one of those things which I'd like to try my hand at, but then I figure that I can just appreciate the skillful artists I see instead of diluting my focus. Not that I'm averse to trying new media, it's just that I'll see some awesome stained glass or something and I get some cool ideas about what I might do, then I remember that I'd have to start with it as a novice so I'd be taking away from other productivity. See also: wanting to be able to play classical guitar or banjo, learning some of the fundamentals but realizing that I'd have to train for years to play "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" sigma 6 posted:Moar coasters. Here's a pen and ink + ink wash drawing I just did for my friend's 48 hour film competition. I'm not super pleased with it because they gave me their reference photos really late in the process so I only had a few hours to get it done before the deadline. I was trying to do somewhat of an homage to Sergio Toppi and I was pissed because I certainly didn't pull it off, but it would take me more time to have to develop an awesome composition like he did.
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Sep 19, 2020 22:32
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Zoben posted:Thanks! I post in like 3 - 4 threads for the most part, but I still come back and check to see if there are like....1-9 new posts if that Thanks! I think your art would absolutely work well in relief prints, although given how detailed/intricate it gets, it might be better suited for woodcut than lino. That's a whole 'nother level of skill vs. what I've ever attempted, though. I think someone like me who doesn't create art for a living can afford to be a dilettante and bounce from one hobby and craft to another. My corporate job doesn't care and I don't have to worry about taking time away from a more productive area of interest. So I end up doing exactly as you described: ooh linocut! / ooh woodworking! / ooh knifemaking! It just. goes. on. And I'm not qualified to say whether you pulled off a Toppi homage, but I can tell you created a wonderful piece!
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Sep 20, 2020 01:52
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Discord artdome piece progress I have been forgetting to post, apologies.  
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Sep 21, 2020 03:08
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Trabant suggested I post some stuff here so here goes. I do mostly just pen and ink for my own amusement and to put on Instagram for family and friends. I've done a few commissions and gifts over the years and have done a couple logos for professional societies and meetings (fish biology). Most of my stuff is drawn with stencils in mind, but I don't actually get all the way to that part very often any more. I just did this one the other day for a friend who wanted a big sturgeon on his new research boat. It'll eventually be a stencil about 48" long.  I'm a really big fan of Zoben and also cartoons. This was a few recent nights of being stoned and cutting myself off of tv for a bit.  I picked up block printing again for the first time since high school. This was a lino block, and I sewed the handkerchief myself. I'd like to make more of these once I get better at printing textiles without a press. 
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Sep 23, 2020 02:58
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Hell yeah! If you tend to draw more than anything, the Daily Drawings thread would probably also be a great place to hang out, and I'm pretty sure it's more active than this one. I'm horribly envious of how clean your work is, and the fact you got commissions really ought to tell you about how well it's perceived. As for printing on fabric, please do post if you figure it out. I have some mild interest in following the lino --> print --> vector --> t-shirt screen print path, but I wouldn't be opposed to block printing on tees instead. I just don't have any real confidence in my printing abilities. Or the space for it -- my printing station is a sliver of available kitchen counter
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Sep 23, 2020 07:12
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Thanks, I really get a lot of personal satisfaction out of doing stuff with bold clean lines. Re: printing, I figured a few things out really quickly on my first handful of experiments. 1. Block printing is really not the best method for textiles, but it can be done. 2. Rubber blocks are pretty poo poo for textile. Lino worked better for me, but I had to go back and sharpen up a bunch of my cuts until I was just satisfied enough to go do something else for a while because it was still frustrating. 3. The fabric must be smooth, tight, and pinned down securely without being stretched. I clamped that handkerchief over a granite block I think. 4. The block needs exactly the right amount of pigment on it. I don't have any idea how to really dial this in other than doing it a bunch. 5. Even application of weight is key. I had to talk myself out of getting a little screen printing kit. I think my wife would start to get irritated if I added that to the pile of art crap I leave out on the kitchen table and counters. Will there be an inktober thread? I did that last year and enjoyed forcing myself to just draw something, no matter how simple, every day.
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Sep 23, 2020 16:16
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Ink pass. Finding it hard to find time to draw. Almost like carving out time to exercise and feeling guilty when I don't make the time. "Not drawing is emotional suicide"
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Sep 23, 2020 21:36
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Will there be an inktober thread? I did that last year and enjoyed forcing myself to just draw something, no matter how simple, every day. I enjoy lurking in those threads but get the impression that this subforum has slowed down a whole bunch since, you know, Lowtax. The CC Discord (another place where I mostly lurk) might be the place where Inktober happens. The invite link is... Somewhere? If I can't find the post I'll link it myself later.
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Sep 24, 2020 03:44
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Invite link: https://discord.gg/25e2VpE There is an artober channel with a series of prompt lists in there.
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Sep 24, 2020 05:56
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Keetron posted:Invite link: https://discord.gg/25e2VpE Yeah, we're not doing Inktober, but we're doign lots of different -tobers; Bot-tober, Thirst-tober, Tarotober, Slow-tober are the ones with lists so far.
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Sep 24, 2020 07:09
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Finally got around painting more. https://twitter.com/arianimation/status/1309994296679038977?s=19
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Sep 27, 2020 00:43
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dog nougat posted:Finally finished this dang poster. Made the mistake of helping my girlfriend cut her grass and used a string trimmer for a couple hours. My hands were jittery/shaking for a couple days, so there was no way I was gonna try painting like that, glad it's finished. Feel like it took me too long overall tbh. Need to get it scanned, get some prints run off, and get it framed. I think I want this on my wall. What are the dimensions?
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Oct 3, 2020 19:51
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Claeaus posted:I think I want this on my wall. What are the dimensions? Thanks! It's 7x14 for the original. Just got my prints yesterday in 11x17 considering cutting them down to legal size or something thereabouts for framing purposes. I'm gonna make a thread in SA-mart as soon as my gf brings them over to my house.
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Oct 3, 2020 20:06
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hosed around with this watercolor for about an hour. From a photo I took at rialto beach a few year ago. I hate water. 
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Oct 4, 2020 01:19
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It is nice, you done well.
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Oct 4, 2020 07:02
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silicone thrills posted:hosed around with this watercolor for about an hour. From a photo I took at rialto beach a few year ago. This is great! I love the waves especially.
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Oct 4, 2020 15:04
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Thanks! I've painted that a few times in different mediums over the last couple of years and its a good reminder that gettin good art is mostly just time put in. Im still not super happy with it so i'm gonna keep practicing because waves are just a pain and as much as I watch like eva wolf instragram vids on water my brain still just doesnt wanna do it right lol  One of these days i'll finish this. It's unfinished for about 2 years because the water stresses me out so hard. I also need to restart on the sky since I figured out cloud technique like halfway through that painting  However this was a water painting I did a few months back so I figured... its time to get back on this horse. I can fuckin do this. Lights and darks just like everything else. Middle ground it and work in and out. 
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Oct 4, 2020 21:38
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You have inspired me, I'm gonna pick up the watercolours again. Work went mad and I got exhausted and stopped but I find doing art actually *gives* me energy, so I should do it even if I feel tired, I reckon.
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Oct 4, 2020 22:21
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Here's a work in progress album cover I'm making for a goon's album It's really smudgy right now though. You can click it to view a giant 600 dpi scan 8"x10", various layers of gel pen, fineliner, marker, acrylic and gouache silicone thrills posted:One of these days i'll finish this. It's unfinished for about 2 years because the water stresses me out so hard. I also need to restart on the sky since I figured out cloud technique like halfway through that painting Please do finish that it's hella rad!!
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Oct 5, 2020 05:25
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deep dish peat moss posted:Here's a work in progress album cover I'm making for a goon's album It's really smudgy right now though. That neon pink is just right! Pops really well. Guessing that was gel pen? Really enjoy the overall composition and keep staring to find more. Really love it!
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Oct 5, 2020 06:30
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Claeaus posted:I think I want this on my wall. What are the dimensions? Finally got my crab prints in. Made a thread over in SA-Mart. Help me not starve!! 
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Oct 5, 2020 21:47
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silicone thrills posted:That neon pink is just right! Pops really well. Guessing that was gel pen? Thank you! The pink went down as a layer of acrylic from an acrylic pen at first, but I ended up going over it again with a gel pen since I couldn't get the kind of detail I wanted with the bigger nub of the acrylic pen.
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Oct 5, 2020 23:57
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Another linocut print, this one based on the events/image seen here: As I said elsewhere, I grew up in ex-Yugoslavia and remember when "Death to fascism, freedom to the people" went from being a serious call/response to a joke about the communists. And yet here I am, living in the US in TYOOL 2020, and this poo poo is more relevant than it's been in 75 years. Think I'll go back to printing kaiju monsters attacking Austin, just needed to get this one out of me.
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Oct 7, 2020 07:57
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Really clean print. It's hard to convey emotion through lino but I think you did it. Feels good to do straight up passion project stuff. I just got a pan of samples for neon watercolors from hydra color and I'm very excited. Not sure what I'm doing with them yet but I'm excited!
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Oct 7, 2020 18:53
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Thank you -- that was probably the fastest idea-to-print I've ever done. Don't know if it was due to the relative simplicity or the all-consuming feeling of dread 
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Oct 7, 2020 23:10
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Inktober sucks so instead of participating I've been challenging myself to use a non-ink medium each day, and I'm happy with the Lisa Frank hellscape I penciled out today
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dog nougat posted:Finally got my crab prints in. Made a thread over in SA-Mart. Help me not starve!! Dang, with international shipping (I'm in Sweden) I think it's a bit too pricey for me. Looks like the prints are going fast though so hoping you won't be starving!
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