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Thoughts about art from a few hours at the Osaka Art Museum
Art ideas - something above you that you can't reach. - collages of others' found objects from a particular time, place - something partially concealed/hard to see all of - elevate the everyday - make/modify the old: change its historical trajectory - make your own textures, scan, work w/ - found historical objects lying around (arrow heads, railroad spikes) ←recreate? I'm responding most to 3D works. I don't care about gratuitous penises in art. They're always awkward/gross. I wanna level up at art. I want to see what lies inside of me. I want to get that out. ← I'm thinking more and more about renting a studio at Water Street Studios and spending a few months there focusing on experimenting, making work. 11am, mid exhibition: I love art. I can't think of anything I love more at this moment. Does anything give me stronger, deeper feelings than this? I love what it gives us. 淀川テクニック's garbage pieces amazing
Anyone ever get this sort of art style envy? Like, I’m happy with how my own style looks but what if I want to draw a different little guy? What if I want to draw ominous shapes instead of hot boys?
I just look at some peoples’ styles and I wanna just steal them for a day. Draw my own little guys with it just to try it out.
Wow. Feels like I’m vividly seeing something lit up and shining in the night like a city, or maybe it’s being reflected in water. But it’s not clear at all what it is, like seeing it through TV static, or in a dream - everything’s so hazy. The texture of this just pulls you in, it’s so beautiful
Nenad Bacanovic
This is so true. And for a long time I don’t think I fully realised that this literally applies to EVERY hobby and field of study.
Like this is my bf recently after he started learning to crochet and its very cute.
This is me with drawing and with diving down the rabbit hole of art history - something I never knew I would become so interested in, but now I find it fascinating. Any research into a subject and any attempt at doing something (anything!) always makes you appreciate the craft, skill and dedication behind those things like 100x more.
And I know they’re not really hobbies but this is definitely true for people studying any academic field too (well I suppose it could be a hobby if someone researches it just in their free time). Like for me learning physics absolutely changes the way I see the whole world around me. Whenever I think about the complexity of what’s happening, even in simple everyday phenomena, it’s astounding. If you haven’t seen it, the quote from Feynman really explains this better than I ever could. But I’ll summarise:
Understanding the flower, what every part of it does, why it looks the way it does and how it functions, doesn’t diminish its natural beauty. It always, always enhances your appreciation of its beauty. And this goes for just about everything in life.
Getting a weird little hobby is actually so important bc it opens your eyes up to the world. You start crocheting or knitting, and now you see scarves and sweaters differently. You try identifying plants, now you’re seeing opposite and alternate leaf pattern. Bird watching? Every chirp draws attention and interest.
Get into weird little hobbies.
ꗃ logging on... loading..... ❀ oak is online !! ❀ ╰┈➤ reading over this i completely agree with you-- i feel the same about deviantart specifically-- it used to be such a good place for ppl to share art, but now i can only find ai art on there its sad to see art platforms dying out and causing people to lose money-- only a select few of lucky people actually make it in the artist industry and it fucking sucks
Theres a conversation to be had about artist specific/artist only websites and how they keep popping up and then immediately dying. Constantly shifting platforms in search of community and a steady income is so draining. Websites are prone to betraying artists/creators for profit and the ones that don't either will in the future or seem to struggle to gain any footing. So now Im seeing this hesitation in artists to move to new platforms because of how often this seems to be happening.
I took a long time off of drawing and posting online. It feels like theres few places now for me to find an active and vocal community that isn't fandom specific.
Tumblr has been really good for finding small independent queer artists, but I feel like if you're trying to make a living off of art, it's difficult to do so here.
What websites do people use these days? I considered Twitter for talking to other artists, but it's too scary of a platform rn tbh
I want to learn how to do pixel art but SPECIFICALLY I want to learn how to do it and emulate the scan line effect
I just think it'd be super neat
When i find a commentary channel whos voice i like. its a bond that lasts forever
Thank you, I think every writer needs to hear this
I don’t know where I heard this quote from but it’s been on my mind a lot lately:
“Art block isn’t really a ‘bad thing’. It’s your brain telling you that what you’re making is no longer satisfactory in your eyes. This just means you’ve outgrown what you were doing before, and are ready to be better. Art block is your brain trying to figure out how to improve.”
Art Vent
I don't get how people are able to post their art when it's objectively Not Good
Like, when the artist is definitely just starting out and needs to learn the basics of art and you can't give them any constructive criticism without sounding like an assbag or being too general or saying basically "git gud"
Oh and let me be clear, I'm not shitting on these folks. I WISH I was that confident when I was at that skill level. I am jealous/proud of these people
If I wasn't chained to the No One Look At Me Or I'll Kill Myself mindset, I'd probably have improved my art a lot more, learned to take criticism, interacted with more artists, and gained a platform or been on my way to one much quicker
This is just something I can't do I guess
I have tons of art that is passable but because it's not super-extra-excellent I don't want to post it and a lot more art that I stopped 3/4ths of the way through because I'm scared the finished product won't be perfect
I even got into a hellishly frustrating artblock this past month because I looked at the amazing work of some artists (that I love so much) who are not only younger and better at art than me, but can draw a wider array of subjects and can actually dedicate themselves to art for more than a few days at a time
Seeing these artists' work shattered my confidence and made me throw out every sketch before it was even half-done because it wasn't "perfect"
It's something I'm working on though
💖It’s nice being able to say you genuinely love your art after hating it for so many years.💖
☁️There are things I want to improve on, of course, but I’m really happy with how far I’ve gotten and where I am now.☁️
The thing about making art is:
If you're good enough to be able to see what you want, you can make the image/object itself out of pretty much anything.
Right now I'm working on sewing some color onto a print I made. most of its fraternal twins are on paper, it's not exactly an edition. I made more than I needed off the block and then burned it into a screen using a print on oiled newsprint and then printed more, two of which are on canvas. at the time I figured I needed bases for mixed media projects outside of school. turns out I was right and I wish I'd made more when I could. but yeah, I made a lot of these because the image itself pleases me. I didn't edition them, so I could color them in by hand and not have to deal with Printmaker Judgement, which is what one gets from other printmakers when the edition is inconsistent (or nonexistent).
I'm doing a very normal version of the colors I usually put on this, only difference is that it's fiber art and it's taking forever to finish because it's painstaking and I keep stabbing myself in the left hand.
last bit of that is normal for my process I guess. almost as much as inspiration striking me exclusively at 2am.
but yeah, mom wanted to go to the JoAnne's in Federal Way tonight. they were out of the glow-in-the-dark embroidery floss so I just picked up some more colors that aren't the variegated stuff I've been working with, and some pieces of felt to make things with.
brought the in-progress canvas scrap in to check it against the colors they had in the store, got complimented by the cashier on it being beautiful. so that kinda made my night.
anyways, I guess this is another picture of my tool-box. I will post the progress shots in victory when I finish the beast.
me and my boyfriend just finished Victory Gundam and wow, it really is just the best UC Gundam series (Spoilers Below!!!)
I liked a lot about victory gundam but I want to start with one aspect: the characterization of the enemy is at its peak here. gundam has always been said to have a sympathetic view of the other side of the conflict, but i don't think it's ever as apparent as it is in this show. the enemies our main characters face are portrayed more human than any prior gundam series, they have goals, dreams, and relationships. they love, hate, and are passionate about each other. it's even one of the points of resolution in the show's story, with the psychickers praying to see their families and friends, who've been caught in the war, again.
another thing i like is the shows commitment to slowing down and showing some quieter moments of the character's lives, whether that is grieving at a funeral, common banter, or playing some game. speaking on the funeral aspect specifically, finally a gundam series that devotes time to grieving. there are many funeral scenes in this show and they are all fantastic. it really drives in the weight and impact of the deaths that previous gundam series simply do not have.
final note: this show is also a lot more symbolic. previous shows were far too straightforward having maybe little bits of symbolism here and there, but this show is great at it. the story in this one isn't as straightforward, it's a lot more abstract, but that lends itself well to the show's themes
i'm sad i slept on this show for so long, it truly is one of, if not the best gundam series
i really liked that movie!! might be my favorite satoshi kon film, but i also haven’t seen many of his films.
the composer is susumu hirasawa though, an artist i’ve really gotten into this year! i’d check out his non-soundtrack work if you liked paprika, some of it is hard to find unfortunately but it’s worth it imo!
By sheer accident, got tickets to a screening of paprika (2006) at a cinema - yes, i never watched it before, so i went. Very good. I guess i probably could take away some stuff about dreams, the subsonscious, etc, but for the most part i got upset that i'm not a hot and cheerful magical dream girl and learned that that one CDR breakcore song is a paprika credits song remix
Me, working on an oc outfit: we are an ADULT we are allowed to make outfits SEXY and REVEALING
My brain: no the fuck where not cover that shit this instant