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Friends Are Evil: I never watched Twin Peaks, but that drawing makes me want to. This is my latest - colored pencil and Neocolor II on Stonehenge paper. I am not super happy with the leaves, but this was my first time experimenting with the Neocolors, so I call it a success. 
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zwdzk posted:I have nothing to add other than the fact that this is such an amazingly cool idea. You've inspired me. The only thing I guess I could comment on is the texture of the snake skin. Well done, no doubt, but lessening the focus on that specific detail might make for a stronger piece of work. It looks busy. Thanks for this comment. Last year I did a few art fairs and got really sick of people saying (which most people think is a huge compliment) "I thought that was a photo!" I've been trying to loosen my style a bit while keeping most of the realistic look, and you bring up a great point. I need to get the idea of scales without drawing them out like the sperg I am. Thanks, this is really very helpful.
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smallmouth posted:I had someone commission me to paint a past family dog. I really, really like this. The only thing that bothers me is how solid that right paw is. It distracts from the face which is amazing. I would urge you to do a series of animals in that style. I have a feeling they would sell really well (if you're into that sort of thing.) There are a lot of "abstracted pet portraits" out there, but a lot of them don't "get" abstract like this does.
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SaavikSpocksDaddy posted:Ive been starting to experiment with acrylics and made this Minotaur painting earlier this evening. I always liked Picasso's minotaurs and how their figures felt so heavy in some of the pieces. These are a good start. Just keep practicing the human body and it will come together! Some color mixing to tone down the background would do your Minotaur good. You can still achieve bright colors, especially in the foreground, but adding some compliments (ie orange into the blue for the bg) will help give the painting a little depth and that might help with the claustrophobic feeling. For blending I always just use old t-shirts cut up. They hold up longer than tissues and who doesn't have a crappy t shirt to re-purpose?
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Feb 5, 2016 16:13
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dog nougat posted:Finished my butterfly pig. All the paintings for my show on Friday are complete. I really like your work. Show us some photos of the exhibit once it is hung!
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Selling art is loving hard. I do it for my real job and still don't know how to sell my own personal stuff. Social media is good, but what has served me well is being at local art fairs and being there year after year. People do remember you and then they buy for some reason. Also I bought an Epson R2000 printer and my prints outsell my originals by approximately one million percent. I resisted the Idea of prints at first, but honestly if you are up front with your buyers they mostly want to have the image and don't care if its original or limited edition or what.
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Mar 6, 2016 06:05
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Is this gauche again? I love it.
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Apr 2, 2016 16:47
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Where in time is Carmen Sandiego This is good and impressive in scope for sure, but I wish you would have pushed the mid tone colors more to give it more contrast, even if it wasn't in the reference. Just a tad more pop would elevate this piece to a whole different level. As a spaz who is obsessed with tiny detail in my own work, I salute you either way. That painting is a beast of an achievement. Carotid - those sketches are all delightful. I would love to see something in an opaque medium from you. I think you would kill it.
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Wowporn posted:my friend got me some really nice prismacolor pencils for christmas and I don't really know how to use them yet but I drew a pokemon she likes because it was a very nice gift Art is tricky to scan on a desktop scanner. If it can go to a higher dpi, try that. If it is scanning in a preset mode for "photos" or something, try a different preset. I have an Epson and switch it to "professional mode" which makes the scanner not apply those presets which are usually for either photos or documents. Then I scan at at least 300dpi. It looks like your scanner is applying extra contrast, if you can find a way to stop it doing that, I think the details between the blended colors will come out. Here's a Halloween drawing I did in colored pencil and scanned. The contrast in the moon is messed up; I think desktop scanners just aren't the best at picking out detail in heavy contrast areas. 
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Anyone here done resin art? I bought some resin and I am hoping to layer some lace over drawings on panel.Kanine posted:art school did that to me Same but vaginas
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dupersaurus posted:*takes notes* What kind of art fair did you enter? Was it juried? I have been doing (mostly outdoor) fairs for about 5 years, so let me know if you have questions.
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I really like the dogs a lot. I admire anyone who can get through a Trump painting. I know I couldn't stare at any image of him long enough to make a stick figure
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silicone thrills posted:Yesterday a group of folks at my company participated in an event called "Steamroller Smackdown" Basically you carve a gigantic linocut and then ink it and a steamroller rolls over it to make the print. It's pretty fun and a rare opportunity to work super big! This is so cool! My printmaking prof told me about how they would do something similar with a pick up truck and a 4x8 piece of plywood. Your print turned out great. I wish they had the others up on the website. The colors and composition on yours would be tough to beat, I would like to see what else people came up with! I miss printmaking so loving much. Hard to do what I want without a press though. I have a barren but it's a bummer to use and I would want oil based inks and I would need like some kind of glass table and ugh. E: Do you pull more than one? How many per edition? I'm so jealous.
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Keetron posted:Not sure where else to post this, but for reasons of bad impulse control I was subscribed to multiple art boxes and now I have all these things I will never ever use. My employer is covering the shipping costs so I can give away a few boxes of random stuff and ship them where ever in the world. The only real compensation would be posting the artwork you make with the random box here in this thread. poo poo, I will take some alcohol markers. Awesome.
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I promise to pay with a drawing with those alcohol markers - I have the perfect idea for them. I had an idea this Thursday of a Valentines drawing idea, so now it is crunch time. It usually takes me a month or more for a colored pencil piece, and I need to finish this latest in 2 weeks. The gifs above are sweet. Here is the last one I made 
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Zoben posted:Thanks! I'm not super knowledgeable on what laser burning is, I guess I'll have to Google it. I love those gifs, I do very little painting anymore but process vids/gifs are super fun to watch and very informative for those seeking advice. I've done them with portrait drawings I've done mainly because it's more interesting to share on social media. This is loving sweet
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mudskipp posted:Some seriously colourful & high contrast work in the thread since I last popped in, it's great! I really like this! I love the contrasts. The dark at the bottom works really well with the light sky. That’s harder to do than it should be. I really like Godzilla too. Great perspective HungryMedusa fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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I have not made art really during covid, and I really need to get back. I started this like 2 years ago and am finally making progress. I have a stack of half done stuff and it needs to go. Acrylic markers on gessobord. My fingers are stained purple forever. I am not sure about the background, might go less crazy bright with it once the turtle head is done. Maybe add a hint of leaves or something. 
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deep dish peat moss posted:Back in November I got an ipad to draw on and kind of got sucked into it for 6 months but I recently found out about ink pencils and they got me back into traditional media. So I've been going through and cataloging all this stuff I drew between the start of 2020 and now because it's cool seeing how I improved after 6 months of steady digital practice. Here's all my traditional Quarantine Art and 2021 art that is A) More than ~60% done and B) Not already framed and hanging somewhere The mention of turtles and watermelon has actually kind of made my brain explode a little. I might have to do a watermelon turtle piece after this that has actual watermelon and turtles in it. My thing is still lives with reptiles and that makes so much sense! Do you mind linking what you use as far as "ink pencils" go?
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deep dish peat moss posted:I have a giant overstuffed leather loveseat that's going to get thrown away and I'm looking for a reason to repurpose it. Is there anything I can use to paint/draw on leather that would withstand wear from people sitting on it? I've been Googling and the top 2 suggestions for leather are Acrylic and Alcohol Ink. I would expect Acrylic to rub off... Alcohol Ink works as far as resisting wear, but I tried with copics and the color is barely visible on the leather surface. I am not a leather expert, but have hosed around with leather. There is leather paint I have not tried yet, but seen promising things: https://www.dickblick.com/products/...ASABEgI3OPD_BwE There is Fiebing’s dye that works really well but for veg tanned leather, so I don’t know if it would do well on a couch. It is more of a stain that works on an open grain. Acrylics could work but you u would want them on the thinner side so they don’t just chip. For fiebings or acrylic paint, I would gently scuff the surface you want to paint first so either adheres better. I think there still might be a leather thread in DIY, you could go for guidance there. Fun idea! I love that wave drawing, Zoben! The shrimps are also very cool. Their faces really capture a kind of sadness in a funny way which I don’t know if you were going for, but to me it is very much the essence of being a shrimp.
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Yeah, making a living off of art is hard. I know a few fine artists who that is their profession, and they mostly have dedicated studios in big communal buildings and are constantly showing in galleries and/ or having open studio events. A couple of them teach to supplement their income. Some have other jobs. You have to constantly promote yourself and hustle. I am older, so the artists I know are mostly not huge on social media and have built followings in the community first. I consider myself a part timer - I "sell" on Etsy (not super lucrative) and do 2-4 art fairs a year- or I did pre-covid. So take any of my advice with a grain of salt. I definitely could not quit my day job. $4 per square inch seems expensive, but pricing is so hard. To sell any amount of art, you are right you need a following. I think first it would be helpful to identify your audience. Then you need to get your art in front of them. Look for galleries and gift shops in your area where your work would fit and approach them. You might want to try smaller pop up type art events to see what selling art to the public is like if you want to try that route. And of course hit social media hard, follow other artists you like and have similar styles who are making a living at it and do what they do. It's hard. I am getting ready to redouble my art making efforts here after a year and a half of covid blahs. I entered a juried art fair and a juried show and should know next week if I made either of them. It is really something you can not stop doing or you lose momentum. Here is my finished turtle head. I like her, but this kind of art is not what most of my customers like; I do better with more realistic colored pencil work. 
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That is an adorable shrimp! I like the frame too
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Skull face rules!
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I'm jealous AF of the press. That print looks so good and crisp! I love it! My first art fair of the year is also in 2 weeks and I have been working on a bunch of new stuff, mostly colored pencil on plywood shapes I have had my coworkers make me with the CNC cutter at my day job. They are all my photo references, so it has been fun thinking of shapes to do. I took almost the whole pandemic off from not just doing fairs, but making art too. I have to do a lot to catch up. I haven't finished a large drawing since February 2020. One of my plywood friends:  E: If anyone knows where I should go or look for ideas about buying my own small CNC router that can cut these, please let me know. They are 1/2" thick plywood and I would be fine able to cut 10x10" or smaller. HungryMedusa fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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The clown is amazing. Zoben, that piece is great; well done. I love your style
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silicone thrills posted:I used to work for a frame shop and you could buy single like 8-12-16ft lengths of any specific frame from our local supplier but the key is learning whatever that is in your local area. I'm like 15 years out from this but I think we used Jayeness in seattle. This is all good advice. I still work in the framing business (sort of - it's not a retail framer), and unfortunately most suppliers to the frame shops I have been at will only do wholesale/b2b. I think your best bet really would be to go to local frame shops and ask - especially ask if they have things in stock they would want to sell for cheap. I have worked at places that give artists special discounts. Cultivating a relationship with a framer or two would be my advice. Most framers have at least a few sticks of moulding they would love to sell off.
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silicone thrills posted:Been working more consistently lately so i've got a few things to share :3 These are really cool - you get a lot of great detail into small canvases!
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PokeJoe posted:Does anyone sell prints, and if so is there some good print to order service? I've gotten stuff printed w Shutterfly, Google photos, and some other service I can't recall but never used anything like redbubble and the like. Any recommendations? It depends on what you want. I print my own on an ancient Epson r2000. I buy print on demand prints as a part of my day job so I have seen some from different services. I wasn't impressed with Redbubble. Fine Art America is OK but their customer service can be iffy if you have a problem. Society 6 is pretty low quality paper. I hear Printful is good but have no personal experience with them. I have always liked anything we get from Smugmug but that is mostly photo prints. The thing I hear over and over from art fair artists I know is it's best to find a local print shop to do them for you if you don't do your own. They might be more expensive but then you can see the product and tweak things. If you have a local Blick, they often have sales on their printing services though I don't know how good a deal they are. They do have nice giclee printers.
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drat, that is a compelling portrait. Well done!
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Ooh, I especially love the heron!
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I would be careful beating the devil out of the brush. I don't think Bob knew how terrible all of those solvents are for you and probably breathed a poo poo ton of it. Your multiple bush idea is much better than aerosolizing the gently caress out of paint thinner. Also that is great for a first try - I have never done wet on wet but I think it is way harder than he makes it look!
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I always go through a phase where I hate my stuff and don't think it will ever make it. And sometimes it doesn't - which sucks but is part of art I guess. That airplane is good so far - please post here. It will go thru a lot of stages and if you want critique goons are pretty gentle databasic posted:Assistance requested. The nebula/galaxy motif is something I've been slapping on any surface I can find (including a basement wall). All of them have layers of speckled stars in both white and glow-in-the-dark acrylic. this is a very cool concept, love what you are doing with it. Did you decide on a direction for the sides of the cornhole boards? I would have gone with dark blue/black out of sheer laziness
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