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niwolah · 8 months

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If you think that writing about fucked up things means the people writing them are fucked up in the head and have to be bullied (at the very least...), then you're the one having to be slapped across the head (at the very least).

Creative expression helps keeping people sane.

#art #creative expression #let people enjoy things #artist struggles #true words #ship and let ship #writer problems #proship #censorship

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esuemmanuel · 10 months

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Yo tenía cerrado el corazón, me lo había sellado con saña por necesidad, porque había sufrido de dolor al entregarlo deliberadamente por ingenuidad. Pero, llegó ella, con sus manos de rosa y sus ojos de arena, me miró en silencio, mientras de su boca nacía una perla que había tomado de la luna en una noche veraniega… y la colocó ante mí, con la confianza sincera, de que la tomaría para guardarla en mi cabecera. Entonces, lo hice; tomé con recelo su regalo y lo coloqué en mi almohada al dormir, no creyendo que, algún día, iba a volver a sentir a este corazón mío, en mi pecho, latir. Hoy suspiro de su boca el perfume carmesí de esas amapolas que ha sembrado en mis sueños bajo el juramento de hacerme feliz.

I had closed my heart, I had sealed it with cruelty out of necessity, because I had suffered the pain of deliberately giving it away out of naivety. But, she came, with her hands of rose and her eyes of sand, she looked at me in silence, while from her mouth was born a pearl that she had taken from the moon on a summer night... and she placed it before me, with the sincere confidence, that I would take it to keep it in my bedside. So, I did; I warily took her gift and placed it on my pillow as I slept, not believing that, someday, I would ever again feel this heart of mine, in my chest, beating. Today I sigh from her mouth the crimson perfume of those poppies she has sown in my dreams under the oath to make me happy.

#esuemmanuelg #el hombre de la soledad #escribiendo en soledad #escritores en tumblr #the man of solitude #writing in solitude #poetas en tumblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #pensamientos #2023 #creative expression #creative writing #ai artwork #ai illustration #ai image

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miradas-world · 1 year

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Cosmic ocean 🌊🌌✨

#4k hdr #nebulosa #tecnologia #cosmos #creative expression #imagine

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doomhole · 5 months

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So... I get the reasons why artists are so vehement about being seen as skilled rather than talented.

Art IS a skill.

You can't become a highly proficient artist without practice in the same way that you can't get those rock-hard washboard abs without exercise.

But here's the thing about that.

Practice is to art improvement as exercise is to weight loss.

As in:

It seems sensible to most that there would be a correlation between having an athletic lifestyle and having a lean body. Our media actively reinforces that seemingly-sensible assumption, too. And yet... serious scientific research keeps showing that exercise does not actually lead to weight loss in the vast majority of cases and populations.

Not to mention that we all know people who are stick thin and never get off the couch. They won't be sporting that trained physique for sure... but they're not fat either. And some of us may know or even be people who are actually incredibly fit and well-exercised... while being and remaining fat by any metric.

Getting exercise is healthy! It comes with countless measurable physical and mental benefits, both immediate and long-term, and is altogether really worth it. Even doing a little is good for you.

But the odds that exercise will make you skinny? Well. They are bad. Really bad, actually.

Did I mention exercise is great for you regardless of your weight and body type?

….

This is what actively trying to build art skills through practice is like too.

Getting good at art through practice is about as likely as getting thin through exercise. In other words: it's definitely not impossible, but results can and very much will vary.

Art skill is not some innate magical gift the artist had to do nothing for, and that should be said. Practicing art is hard work. But an artist isn't good at art *because they practiced*. They are good at art because they practiced AND happened to be someone for whom practice actually worked in the desired way. Which is significantly more rare.

Messages like "Everyone can be good at art! (If they practice enough/in the right way)" are as disingenuous and toxic as "Everyone can be skinny! (If they exercise enough/in the right way)". It's just not true. We all know it's not true.

But more importantly,

Being good at art is about as much the point of art practice as being skinny is the point of exercise.

It's normal to want to be good. Like thinness, skill mastery is centered and celebrated in a variety of ways in our society. Of course it's desirable. But it is at the very most a lucky bonus drop on top of everything else art practice gives you.

Much like exercising, practicing a creative skill has a ton of benefits. It helps with emotional regulation, lowers blood pressure, improves spatial awareness, motor skills, memory, and focus, and is linked to greater life satisfaction and reduced depression symptoms. It is great for you, mind and body. And none of those things are even *related* to actually being good at it.

So I just want to say...

It's OK if you are bad at art, and practice doesn't help.

It doesn't mean you're doing art the wrong way (especially if you find your current practice enjoyable and/or easily maintainable as it is).

It doesn't mean you're lesser than others whose art does improve with practice.

It doesn't mean you lack dedication/grit/spine/discipline/whatever.

It doesn't mean there's no point in making art.

The point of making art is that creative expression is a human need. So... make art as an act of self-care rather than a mission of self-improvement. You are already good enough. You are already deserving.

#making art #art is hard #art improvement #talent versus skill #about making art #skill improvement #bad art #creative expression #art practice #practice #practice makes perfect #...or does it #fatphobia #exercise

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burlap-bows · 9 months

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Fr I barely finish anything😭

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rainbowrelyea · 10 months

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I wish I could explain how much it means to me to know that there are other people out there who also happen to obsess unhealthily over their favorite fictional characters and ships 😆 - and even more so that there is an outlet like Tumblr where we can channel our obsessions into beautiful works of art, funny memes, soulful fics, and supporting each other’s varied forms of expression ❤️

#community #tumblr love #shippers #mutual weirdness #creative expression

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serenagaia · 4 months

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The Cathedral - Auguste Rodin

“The hands sustain the soul” Pascal

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auressea · 2 years

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I'm enthralled..

by the cast and writers of The Sandman series.

today I watched a bunch of interview panels.

.....and they're ALL SO IN LOVE with this work- this story and the original story. They all READ the comics! and then they actively collaborated to build up the characters in a new way that made the story fresh while respecting the source.

They're so excited about it and passionate and FANS of their own project. you can tell most of them watched the finished show. They watched the episodes that don't feature them! They talk about each other's work with such respect and joy!

and... this shouldn't feel so refreshing. but in these days of corporate generated 'entertainment' where an actor doesn't even read the script? Where everyone's acting in a green box? and then contractually obligated to tour'n'talk for promo?

It's DELIGHTFUL to experience this amazing creative work through their eyes.

#The Sandman #The Sandman tv #actors #performance art #talent #creative expression #collaborative art #actor interviews #neil gaiman #this is how entertainment should be

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flightyquinn · 3 months

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AI Haters, Please Read to the End

I see people celebrating every time something bad happens in the AI art world, and that makes me very sad. Because I am partially colorblind, and have ADHD, clinical depression, and other health issues that I'm less comfortable talking about. Because I can't work, and rely on family for housing and government assistance to afford essentials. For someone like me, the barrier to entry on art is high. I'm never going to own a drawing tablet, I can't get professional lessons, my focus sucks to the point where it's hard to follow tutorials no matter how much I want to, and even if all of that could be sorted, my own eyes are against me.

But I still have ideas. I still have pictures in my head that want to get out. Characters that want faces, scenes that want to be expressed, and the like. I'm still creative. I just can't properly express that creativity. Nor can I pay someone else to express it for me. However, I can tell an AI what I'm trying to depict. I can tweak the settings, make small changes, spend hours on end generating and re-generating, tweaking and re-tweaking, and making small edits that are within my power to do, until I have a picture that satisfies my need to bring the thing in my head to life. That's not "stealing". It's not pushing a button and letting the computer do the work for me. That's me having my own ideas, and trying to use the tools at my disposal to turn them into something that other people can see.

Plus, there's one other thing I can do. This is a picture I generated with AI that I'm actually quite proud of.

And do you know why? Because it started as this.

I fed my terrible MSPaint rough as hell doodle into an AI, and told it what the picture was supposed to be. And I tried again, and again, and again, until I was able to refine the result into something that I was happy with - which took a whole lot more than just pressing the button again, let me tell you.

This is my idea, from start to finish, and my shitty art became something that actually looks halfway decent. Yeah, I'm aware of the wonkiness and AI jank. I know the jawline's weird, his eyes don't match, and there's something up with his ear. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than what I could do on my own.

Look, when it comes to stopping the commercialization of AI art, I'm right there with you guys. Fuck corporations that want to replace their whole art department. Fuck people who want to impersonate other artists, or take commissions to turn someone's description of what they want into a prompt. Hell, fuck the people who take the first result they're given without trying to refine it at all!

However, I don't want AI to die. AI is an accessibility option. AI is a tool that lets me go from saying for years, "I wish I could have art of my first D&D character, I have so many fond memories of him." to having that one picture. It lets me stop stealing every time I want a character portrait for a new TTRPG that I'm starting up. Because you know what? I don't have the ability to be a "real artist", and I never will. There's too many barriers for entry.

...and my situation is mild compared to what some people have to deal with. Sure, there are people who find ways to make traditional art despite disabilities, but that's an exception. It could be the rule. Why shouldn't it be?

As far as "theft" goes, I have yet to hear one explanation of why it's okay to use references, but not AI, that didn't boil down to "it's different when we do it". And what about collage? Is a collage art, or is it "theft?" What about sculptural works that use reclaimed objects? They didn't create that. They just decided how it would be arranged. Hell, what about pieces like "The Fountain" for that matter? That's a big problem I have with all this hate. If you applied the same standards to other things as to AI, then there's a lot of things that currently are art we'd have to say aren't any more.

If you have a problem with AI, why not work to make it better, instead of trying to deprive people who rely on it for self-expression of a creative outlet?

#ai #ai art #ai artwork #art #creativity #creative expression #self expression #accessibility #ai is an accessibility tool #ai art is art #all art is art #art is subjective #everyone deserves to be creative #self expression should not be gatekept #i know i'm opening myself up to receive hate #this is a touchy subject #a lot of emotions involved #but i wanted to share my perspective #i won't be replying to responses

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foxsketch6543 · 6 months

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This was more funnier in my head. LMAO ;3;

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tabney2023 · 11 months

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Pretty Pink-Themed Gazebo. I could spend many hours relaxing in this atmosphere. What about you? Do you like it? Good Vibes. Post It Forward

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therealmarsond · 3 months

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#digital art #art #artwork #digital painting #original art #clip studio paint #my art #painting #ms paint #painter #oc artist #oc artwork #oc art #creative expression #psychedelyc art #psychedlicart #60s psychedelia #abstract art #abstractart

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esuemmanuel · 10 months

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Who are you to drown my eyes with more sadness after my dignity has been taken away from me?

Who are you who dares to call me what you please after I have shouted at my tormentor to respect me for loving?

Who are you who harass me with slaps that hurt my face after you have found me lying naked and soulless?

Who are you who come to spit the horror of the world on my sacred being as if my existence were a sin?

Who are you who have forgotten what it is to be a human being?

Who are you who, from your step, name me as if I were heartless just because it has hurt me to have been robbed?

Who are you who allow yourself to take me, to hurt and humiliate me, to tear from my soul what little love I have left?

Who are you that you forget my humanity - which is so much yours - and do, undoing from me the life, the evil of annulling my pain?

How is it that I am the accused, being the victim?

At what point did my innocence become my penance?

Who gave you the power to judge and send to the wall the one who in his pain cried out for the injustice done to him?

How is it that the victimizer ended up earning your favors and friendship?

Can anyone answer me?

Because the judge who sentenced me has decided to keep quiet!

#esu emmanuel #el hombre de la soledad #escribiendo en soledad #escritores en tumblr #the man of solitude #writing in solitude #poetas en tumblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #pensamientos #2023 #writeblr #creative expression #creative commons #creative writing

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theview-from-halfwaydown · 6 months

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“i’ve got a garden of watermelons growing in the pit of my stomach

from swallowing too many of your black seeds

growing and churning

an undeniable force

i think i’m forgetting how to please”

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randomreasonstolive · 1 year

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Reason to Live #8152

Because maybe someday I'll feel okay enough to draw like I used to, and love it. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

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wordsofsatin · 8 months

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The thing is I should be improving my English and my writing skills, except for that, I feel words constrain me from expressing my true self. The word never seems quite right, you know? It’s frustrating how I can’t seem to communicate what I feel no matter how much I try. Some people feel I express myself well, that I am articulate. I just can’t seem to agree because if they were inside of me they would see, they would feel all that has not been seen or felt from outside of me. If that makes sense

#art blog #spilled thoughts #art aesthetic #spilled writing #books & libraries #creative expression #dreamy #romance #writers on tumblr #feelings #my words #words of satin #spilled words #soul #art #poetry

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