So hey there readers! I know a lot of you do art, and sometimes post it in the comments, so why not an open thread where you can post it to your heart’s content.
Also I thought maybe we could talk a bit about the hardware and software and other resources/websites you all use and/or recommend for doing digital graphics and art.
Ok, I have an eensy teensy bit of an ulterior motive for that last bit. See, I would like to up my graphics game (and do some other computery art stuff too) and I thought you all might have some good recommendations. One basic thing I need is a drawing tablet. Any suggestions for decent ones that don’t cost too much?
And while I’m at it here are some other recent filter experiments of mine to accompany the kitty above.
@dr. ej
An interesting hobby. Can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone engage with tv like that before. Then again I’ve stopped watching TV ever since I could watch tv ad free online so my perspective is a little skewed. True, we all have to acknowledge the unsavory parts of the media we love. Just from anime I can label things from inside the medium and outside the medium in terms of poor working conditions.
Speaking of tv shows, when I was looking for fan videos of Death Note relating to the new Netflix version of Death Note, I came across this.
I’m having a go at writing again, currently have a novel and two short stories in (slow) progress.
@JS
Unfortunately not quite, but still good for 98% of what Photoshop does. For vector graphics, Inkscape is also FLOSS and quite good.
@OoglyBoggles
I’d actually read some general criticism of the show as a whole and I was curious. I’d seen some episodes, but I wasn’t really paying attention to the problematic aspects. I wanted to see how much was there. I had been watching the show without really thinking about it. TV is escapism and it can be OK to zone out for awhile, but I was curious how many problematic ideas I was absorbing because I wasn’t thinking about what I was watching.
There were many more problematic elements than I expected to find and it just made me think about how all that shit is getting into my brain because I wasn’t critically engaging with the media. I’ve spent a lot of time unlearning things that media and popular culture taught me, especially about relationships. Unfortunately, a lot of those harmful ideas were learned passively. Like I said, it’s fine to zone out sometimes, but we need to acknowledge and examine problematic elements if we want to change (both as individuals and as a culture). If I don’t continue to recognize and acknowledge these as serious issues, I could fall back into that old mindset and I definitely don’t want to do that.
Okay, post didn’t seem to work last time, lemme try this again:
This is the pre-production shots of what will be my own custom machine once I’m done with it. I suppose this counts more as crafts than art, but it will look purty once I’m done with it.
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/schnookumsfd/Arcade/20170409_180454_zpsfx2npcwb.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/schnookumsfd/Arcade/20170411_214301_zpsuu92agfd.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/schnookumsfd/Arcade/20170409_180500_zpsgvqmo65x.jpg
@Schnookums
Yes.
Well, I went ahead and ordered an Intuos tablet!
Other thoughts:
I’ve tried GIMP and found it a bit frustrating; I couldn’t figure out how to do a lot of stuff I wanted to do, and ended up using it only intermittently, and mainly for some of the specific effects provided by assorted plugins. I used PaintNet for awhile, now use a mix of online image manipulation/filtering tools plus Corel Paintship Pro, which is handy for a lot of stuff but missing some features I’d like. I used to use photoshop elements but the last time I looked into that there were a lot of complaints about weird glitches with the download version of the latest edition (I have no cd drive).
I definitely will try inkscape; I’ve been playing around with a few pretty stripped-down vector programs as well.
Has anyone tried art rage lite? It comes with the tablet.
I just drew a thing for a May Day flyer. I’m too tired to​ upload it right now.
I post my art on Instagram, @space_moggy.
@dlouwe, you have a really great voice. I don’t know that song at all and you made me like it 🙂
@LindsayIrene, I love the short stories. Disturbing and clever (and how I love the Victorian library …!)
@dr. ej, yes I fucking LOATHE the ignoring-boundaries-is-soooo-romantic trope and it’s practically everywhere. And it is a horrible message to drip into anybody’s mind. This is probably part of the reason I hardly ever relax-watch anything but detective/cop shows (which dog knows have got their own problems). Here’s a rec, though – Vera. Vera is a british cop show in which the eponymous protagonist is a roughly 60-year-old senior detective leading her own team of various other detectives, and she is great. There are very few (in fact there are essentially no) explosions, car-chases or shoot-outs – or titillating female corpses (no glamourising of victims at all, really) – and there are considerable numbers of people being people.
I hate Big Bang Theory, and yes I’ll cop to watching it when somebody (::glares at somebody::) puts it on. Sometimes funny, sure, and also classist, sexist and imo deeply nasty.
Sorry for the derail. Hey, I wrote a silly shaggy-dog story which is pretty short – 380 words – sorry I can’t link to it, but I could post it right here if that’s ok and if anyone likes?
There, y’all inspired me.
May your vampires be warded off:
http://68.media.tumblr.com/6d497a2dd1d0c3e315c2ef0cf2d3ea60/tumblr_ooe7xkMTTm1qbrr45o1_1280.jpg
I want to get into Blender, initially for 3D modelling, and later for animation. The learning curve is really tough! Fortunately, there are a lot of good Blender video tutorials available, but I seem to be at the point where I’m addicted to watching the tutorials, without actually producing anything…
Does nail art count? I dabble in that sometimes. I have a nasty nail polish addiction.
15 or so years ago, I was the PowerPoint queen at my workplace. In other words, the lowest-ranking employee – me – got stuck with translating everyone else’s presentations into PowerPoint.
I use an Intuos tablet for photo-editing and sometimes my own art, and it is very good. At first I was nervous because I would not actually be drawing on the screen but that turned out to be no problem at all.
Other programs I use: Photofiltre (free), for effects such as changing the hue a little or sepia-ising.
Good old Microsoft Paint, for cropping.
IconLover, for icons and cursors… and also cut-and-paste, at which it is better than Adobe Photoshop although slow for large objects, as it is designed for small ones.
Adobe Photoshop, very rarely.
Since this is an open thread (and probably soon to be buried under other threads):
As of several days ago the clinic in Montreal finally processed all of my paperwork and I’m currently slogging through time as I wait for an actual surgery date. (After which I’ll be slogging through more time as I wait for the actual surgery.)
Everyone’s art is amazing and I’m really enjoying this thread! There are so many talented Mammothers!!
I’m another crafter; knit, crochet, and jewelry making mainly. I’d like to get into sewing since I have a lot of fabric (from working at a fabric/craft store for ten years) but not a lot of skillz. I’ve been watching YT channels to get tips and inspiration. I’ve got some furniture I want to work on, too.
My main roadblock is the mess that is my house. I have too much stuff, Husbeast has too much stuff, I still have a lot of stuff from my dad’s house, we also have a non-negligible amount of Husbeast’s mother’s stuff as well. So, I have to move stuff whenever I want to do something other than needlecrafts. On a good day, I can get my kitchen in respectable shape and the laundry done.
Any one else use Daz Studio ? I ‘m a very casual user and not very good but I have posted a few of my renders online if any one is interested . and would like to see the works of other DAZ users as well.
How wide a definition of art are we using here? I typed up something yesterday and prepped things for linking but as usual it got really long (about 6 pages).
@Brony, Social Justice Cenobite
Stories count as art. And if we’re extrapolating you could make the argument that long form posts about any subject counts as writing which in turn is an art.
How does one insert images into the comments here?
I also do music: some lo-fi covers at https://soundcloud.com/a-montreal-paul and I have some original music on Bandcamp as A Montreal Paul and the Socialistic Scientist Conspiracy.
Both my SoundCloud and Bandcamp page contain some of my visual art too,. so that’s a bonus.
I am very interested to read about the programs you are using. I use Pixlr and Picsart on my phone. The problem with the latter in particular is that you can get some cool effects but end up with an image that’s low resolution, so not recommended for professional or commercial images.
Paste a url that ends in .jpg or .gif. I think .png works too
Paste a url that ends in .jpg or .gif. I think .png works too
Here goes:
Thanks, it worked!
Shit does NOT work for me on my phone. SO goddamned frustrating!
@Ooglyboggles
Not a story, it’s an update on my project to make a tool for analyzing emotion in text. It touches on art where I get into what feeling is and how feelings connected to objects can changed and manipulated. It’s pretty relavent to what I’m doing (using [ ], { },(and angle brackets, they dissappear in the comment box), ** around parts of text to emphasize pieces of emotion and feeling of emotion). It’s a necessary first step to showing where conflicts in comments resemble meat space conflicts both physical and social.
I tend to see art in very broad terms that intersects with symbolism in general, and includes all sensory systems (imagine detecting Morse code through your gravity sensing systems).
@Steampunked
I want that in my kitchen because one) lovely use of color and shading and two) garlic is delicious.
@Brony
I’ve seen writing sites that use algorithms to detect mood and tone in text, it’d be interesting to see your take on it from a sociological standpoint.
@Brony
This article on AIs and language might interest you. (and Scildfreja, I hope she’s doing ok)