#about art

[fairlycaught]

The reason that focus groups and capitalist feedback systems fail, even when they generate commodities that are immensely popular, is that people do not know what they want. This is not only because people’s desire is already present but concealed from them (although this is often the case). Rather, the most powerful forms of desire are precisely cravings for the strange, the unexpected, the weird. These can only be supplied by artists and media professionals who are prepared to give people something different from that which already satisfies them; by those, that is to say, prepared to take a certain kind of risk.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

#about art #politics #capitalist realism #mark fisher #quote #quotation #books #anti capitalism

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

in an alleyway in Naples

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“Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.” — C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia)

#Naples #about art #stories #street art #folk art #quotes #C.S. Lewis

[huckleberrycomics]

No perfection. No pandering. No standard for what is “good”.

Fuck “polish”. Fuck “marketing”. Fuck it.

It doesn’t have to be pretty. It doesn’t have to be deep. It doesn’t have to be revolutionary.

You don’t have to be a master of The Craft. You just have to be the master of YOUR craft— and it’s up to you to decide what that is!

It has to be yours. It has to serve you first. If creation is a part of your being, if you need it to survive and thrive, you are an artist!

When and if you release your art into the world, may it help you connect to the universe.

#hector #comics #comic #huckleberry art #illustration #webcomic #queer #artists #artists on tumblr #about art

[wily-art]

Oh my god your animation is fenomenal?!!! It really incredible!!!

Would it be possible to post a bit of your process? I always wanted to try animating but I don't know how lol

Thank you! And yeah I was planning on uploading some speed animates on ye olde youtube channel. They're recorded I just need to edit.

That said I need to warn everyone that I don't actually know what I'm doing and this is all fueled by a dream and ambition.

There's a lot of don't do as I do but learn from my mistakes x'D

#wily talk #about art

[lhoandbehold]

The deficit of finished stories is so profound.

Streaming services cancelling everything after s2 and leaving the stories unfinished.

Franchise stories that need to be part of a connected universe, so every film or series fizzles out into open endings, in order to leave space for spinoffs.

Not to mention whenever a complete, finished story turned out so popular that the producers decide to order more of it, smashing a perfectly finished thing back into pieces just to reassemble it again but never quite as fully as it was before.

But in extension of this, I have been listening to a lot of weird audiobooks lately. They're books I choose without doing much thinking or research - a cool title, check of the genre and a glance at reviews to see how it's generally received. I'm being exposed to a lot of stories I wouldn't necessarily choose if you put them in front of me and asked me to choose. A lot of them I didn't love or even really like, but at least they are finished stories. They started and they ended. They said something, or tried, and then they were over.

And it makes me feel curious and excited to have things come to an end. It makes me wonder what other stories could be put into the world, how I would do it.

it makes me want to go see more weird indie films in the cinema, chase down fresh short films and find new authors I never heard of.

Instead of sitting in the quiet after watching a brilliant but cancelled tv-show, trying to figure out what the meaning of it all was.

#lho rambles #about art #storytelling #media

[jawlipops]

#hmm #about art #so bored w/ my old pieces brah

[halfelven]

my favourite art teacher always said to look at your art in the mirror to see what was wrong with proportion and perspective and one day i flipped the birth of venus and realised i would have been deeply unsatisfied with it if i had painted it and then i tried to view my art as something that didn’t have to be perfect because i would always find something wrong with it simply because i am the artist and hey it sometimes works

#txt #about art #about writing

[from-books-with-love]

I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness.

#ursula k le guin #the left hand of darkness #literature #books #artist #writing #art #on writing #about writing #about art #from books with love

[wormsoft98]

When talking about ai, yall need to be careful to not romanticize struggle. Your art does not contain value because you spent 7 hours agonizing through it, it contains value because you created something. You can be proud of your hard work, but activities are not inherently more worthy if you suffer more to do them

#there are a million things i want to say here about capitalism and ableism #but im too tired to want to phrase it out #this post is not supporting ai art btw #this post is anti supporting people thinking that activities where you suffer are the only activities with worth #illustration #art #wormsoft98 #ai art #mental health #commentary #about art

[wolfsnape]

When everyone is like "you should sell your art, you should make money off your drawings" I think about that birthday cake I drew for my mother when I was seven and how it was so bumpy and ugly but I loved it and I loved making it and it's been twenty years now and it's still on her bedroom wall and maybe art isn't about money maybe art is about love

#wolfie made a statement #art #about art #my art

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” ― Banksy

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“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.” ― Banksy, Wall and Piece

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“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.” ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall

#graffiti #Banksy #about art #street art #advertising #quotes

[inbarfink]

#art #about art #life imitates art #life #thought #art imitates life #art imitates art #poll #random polls #poll time #my polls #tumblr polls #polls

[leafie-draws]

idk if this is helpful but I made a thing✨

#leafie draws #art advice? artvice? hhhghng #composition is just the power of suggestion babyyy #I like sharing art tips I'm just bad at explaining things LOL #about art #art tips #tutorials

[airlocksandaviaries]

All of this "do you have a hobby outside of consuming media" "who are you when you're not consuming media" "all you do is consume media" shit is making me lose my precious faith in humanity.

Like REALLY?? CONSUMING MEDIA??? Is that what we're calling watching shows and reading books and looking at art and listening to podcasts???? consuming media??? CONSUMING MEDIA??? That's all it is to you???? It's almost as bad as using the term 'content creator' instead of ARTIST.

You've taken an essential, beautiful, soul-healing part of the human experience and had the AUDACITY to not only strip it of its life and form and substance, but also attach SHAME and GUILT to it as well???? Please stop my heart can't take this.

I mean, of course it's important to have physical hobbies and creative outlets as well as relaxing ones. This is a very good and healthy thing! But how about we promote how much fun our creative and physical hobbies are instead of SHAMING PEOPLE for the crimes of "watching too many videos" or 'reading too many stories."

Yes, even online videos and stories. Be it fanfic or novel, cult classic film or comedy YouTuber, online digital art or Mary Cassatt, art is fucking art. That's that. And we shouldn't be shaming people for experiencing it. And for the love of humanity, we definitely shouldn't be taking a something as magical as experiencing art and calling it something as soulless as fucking. consuming media.

#discourse #thought i'd never use that tag but here we are #tumblr #consuming media #fucking hell #content creator #rant #airlocks writes #swearing tw #about art #about writing

[kikarouflames]

Damn this is just the shadow layer, studying light and shadows is so important for your art journey

#levi ackerman #kikarou draws #about art #the way it creates a beautiful image in itself

[inspirationalstarlet]

I’m interested in how other people draw flowers, as the flowers that other people draw look how they’re supposed. Like it looks like the real life flower, the flower I draw don’t really look like the real life one. Was wondering if you could give advice about how I could make them look more like the real thing?

"Of course ! I will try my best !"

"Ahem ahem !"

*Muse opens her book, out of which pictures of flowers and real flowers appears. She also gets a pen and start drawing*

Zoom in to see the whole text ! I just realised it's a little small ^^`

"In all, what is important is to understand the shapes and colors of flowers and try to portray them. If you are curious, you can look up why each flowers look the way they do ! Some will mimick insects to attract specific pollinators, while others will just create the most colors they can to be easy spot among the green of fields or forest. Some are turned to the ground, other to the sun. They all have reasons and meaning !"

As a creator, my advice is to study, and yes, trace a bit. Most of the pictures I used here are photos I took myself, and then I traced over it to understand how the flower work. Four petals, over, under, all the little parts, the core, the stem.

And then I redraw without tracing, see if it looks alike, if not, I try to understand what I did wrong and then try drawing it again.

It comes with such training

Have some more watercolors studies I did for school !

#art advice #note that I'm not the best at drawing flowers either #i very often use references or trace over pictures #but that's okay #because while tracing those pictures I learn how the flower works and the shapes to redraw it later #all the flowers from the second slide are from memory ! #welcome home puppet show #sally welcome home #muse sally #wh multiverse #welcome home multiverse #sally starlet welcome home #welcome home au #about art #advice #flowers #muse is talking #she talks a lot