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Anonymous09/30/25, 11:54No.7742374/trad/ - Traditional Art General -
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Anon09/30/25, 15:25No.7742560
I CAN'T PAINT
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Anon09/30/25, 15:43No.7742571
Acrylic landscape on cardboard from a few months ago. Yeah, I suck and will be a permabeg because I lack discipline. It is what it is.
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Anon09/30/25, 16:33No.7742622
Cozy simplification. I’ve enjoyed seeing my sketching power level increase quickly despite never deliberately practicing it
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Anon09/30/25, 16:58No.7742657
Thoughts on hybrid drawing?
Like sketching on paper and then tracing it to make a digital piece
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Anon09/30/25, 19:39No.7742916
Something I did for an art assignment (don't be mean, this was one of my first paintings ever since 3rd grade) also yeah it's HH
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Anon09/30/25, 20:49No.7743005
Thoughts? Second time drawing this beautiful statue of st Joan. Will probably draw it many times again
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Anon10/01/25, 06:13No.7743565
is there a good book or course on soft pastels?
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Anon10/01/25, 14:10No.7743781
How's my fruit?
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Anon10/01/25, 21:05No.7744283
We had some conflicts here but I've taken a lot of you bluds advices here and they have helped good sheit ty UwU, still a bit to go but almost gett'n there
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Anon10/03/25, 06:38No.7746017
To the russian bro who hates today's soulless art, have you read this book? I ordered it yesterday but I've been skimming a digital version, it looks like a great read.
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Anon10/03/25, 10:21No.7746127
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Anon10/03/25, 11:15No.7746163
I mean not that you cant criticize Nazi and Commi aesthetic, both are too modern and too Americanized for my taste. But something in me tells me, a post-war catholicuck would do it for all the wrong reasons.
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Anon10/03/25, 12:03No.7746195
I have a confession to make. I was wrong. I decried your skill and knowledge and I realize now that it was jealousy and pettiness that drove me.
I have spent the last few days trying over and over to defeat the arguments I dismissed in my sad attempt to preserve my ego and I have come to terms that everything you've said is a self-evident Truth.
You know who you are, and you are by far my better and, I would think, the best artist in this general by far after Brian.
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Anon10/03/25, 14:44No.7746327
what do you guys do with pencil stubs?
any easy DIY method for making some kinda handle to stick them in?
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Anon10/03/25, 17:50No.7746440
my /ic/gger room
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Anon10/03/25, 17:50No.7746441
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Anon10/03/25, 19:02No.7746546
Kinda cringe and cluttered but
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Anon10/03/25, 19:35No.7746601
You guys are so goated
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Anon10/03/25, 20:36No.7746703
>i wish people would post their work instead of arguing about theory
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Anon10/03/25, 23:45No.7746889
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Anon10/03/25, 23:46No.7746890
So excited to work on this one
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Anon10/04/25, 00:08No.7746902
Was working on a slave statue but my grandma wanted it back lol
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Anon10/04/25, 00:09No.7746905
Any left 4 dead fans?
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Anon10/04/25, 10:25No.7747222
Some insights from my last museum visit. Size actually isn't as important as i thought it is. A lot of miniatures were very good and fun to look at.
There was to big paintings with a smaller studys on the side, i photographed only this one. But the little study is a lot fresher and more holistic. The big one was impressive as well, but i think i would prefer the small one overall.
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Anon10/04/25, 11:16No.7747253
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Anon10/04/25, 11:19No.7747256
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Anon10/04/25, 20:59No.7747688
I agree on Vermeer.
Obscura tracing was ai-slop of the Renaissance.
Ethno-European art was peak.
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Anon10/04/25, 21:32No.7747714
this thread is now blessed by the scrunkloid wizard
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Anon10/05/25, 11:20No.7748314
another day, another not painting
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Anon10/07/25, 15:43No.7750928
Another attempt at painting. I really want to improve so I'm not confides to pencil drawings anymore
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Anon10/07/25, 18:01No.7751033
I'm a euroshit and last week I bought some Williamsburg genuine flake white from another euroshit cunt, no questions asked. I really want Rublev's lead white but they are cunts that ask for your loicense to purchase. Interested to see if this Williamsburg flake white is indeed better than holbein's silver white.
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Anon10/09/25, 22:28No.7753087
Hmmmm today I will maybe paint
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Anon10/10/25, 02:10No.7753202
Slightly off topic, but I want to hear your opinion on this. Is it as bad as it looks? Am I missing something?
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Anon10/11/25, 01:43No.7754156
I didn't paint
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Anon10/11/25, 10:52No.7754476
>decide it's time to put on my big boy pants and add yellow ochre to my burnt sienna and ultramarine baby palette
>it's the most disgusting thing imaginable
I am viscerally repulsed by each stroke, it's like painting with diarrhea of an exclusively corn fed baby. It's so opaque, thick and gross looking, even dipping my brush in it is gross, it's the consistency of mud.
I hate everything about it.
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Anon10/11/25, 13:45No.7754538
At some point all my paintings end up being quagmires. Usually I think the sketch is ok, then I add colour. Then im not happy with some parts or afraid to change things again and then I try to fix local mistakes. But often I know something keeps being wrong but not exactly what.
If I look at /trad/ paintings they all seem to be structured and the artist knows what to look for exactly.
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Anon10/11/25, 15:26No.7754601
Boomer painter paints his boomer muse
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Anon10/11/25, 15:40No.7754614
I'm using printer ink for my dip pen. What can I use instead of an inkwell?
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Anon10/11/25, 16:57No.7754650
this guy here has some really great videos, mostly about plein-air/landscape painting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWEF5oqZ45k
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Anon10/11/25, 20:59No.7754825
Are the Blick studio hardbound sketchbooks any good?
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Anon10/12/25, 02:06No.7755055
>bought all those acrylic paints and palettes
>realize it generates tons of microplastics everywhere
i tried to avoid oil as much as possible because of the bad experience PTSD, but it looks like I will have to eventually crawl back to them
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Anon10/12/25, 18:31No.7755628
how long until next layer when I use slow drying medium? Touch dry?
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Anon10/13/25, 04:44No.7756177
Just finished this one.
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Anon10/13/25, 04:47No.7756182
Something
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Anon10/13/25, 09:07No.7756407
AMBATUBARGUE
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Anon10/13/25, 16:59No.7756807
https://youtu.be/ClNtnsOJpVI?si=fjhQWovvwq7tlWwC
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Anon10/13/25, 19:07No.7756988
Here's my doodles for the day
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Anon10/14/25, 03:51No.7757548
Finished this one after what feels like a long time.
I've been doing a lot of ink stuff on the side though.
Have another touhou thing for a buddy coming up. I know nothing about this fandom but it's obviously popular lol
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Anon10/14/25, 16:29No.7758005
This is a drawing I've been working on since March. These are the two most recent streams.Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/live/vPQgMJGkUCA?si=XUTcQfIXO-xxT1KAa garbage clown drawing session
https://www.youtube.com/live/wyakQXodTU8?si=-4MQubin0tgKNqz9
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Anon10/14/25, 22:38No.7758430
I miss Brian being the thread schizo
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Anon10/15/25, 02:19No.7758743
I'm in a wired spot. One is supposed to use emotion and life experiences to create art, but I'm in a sorry piss poor mental state that's even worse than the one I was just in.
I stopped drawing/painting months ago from depression being unemployed. I'm now in the process of starting a job that I'm going to probably hate and it's giving me all sorts of negative feelings based on who I was when I used to do it.
Now I don't want to draw or paint or even play my guitar because I don't want the way I feel right now associated with things I used to enjoy.
Is this ass backward thinking? Should I be starting drawing and painting again (I was never very good) even though I hate everything right now and have gone from mildly suicidal despair to emotionally dead loathing?
The way I figure it, either this job will work out and I'll stabilize in a couple weeks or it won't and I'll be in some new catastrophic mental state.
Is it better in these fugue episodes to just catatonically doom scroll, avoiding things I used to take pleasure in, or should I try to put it into art.
This is so shitty I don't see why I should preserve it in form, much less share it with anyone.
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Anon10/15/25, 10:46No.7759074
good morning tradsisters !
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Anon10/15/25, 10:47No.7759075
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Anon10/15/25, 10:48No.7759077
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Anon10/15/25, 10:56No.7759083
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Anon10/15/25, 11:47No.7759121
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Anon10/16/25, 10:38No.7760421
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Anon10/16/25, 12:58No.7760501
random old pics I don't think I've posted
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Anon10/16/25, 12:58No.7760502
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Anon10/16/25, 13:02No.7760503
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Anon10/16/25, 13:06No.7760507
this one was fucking around with random colors
all of these were taken on the same camera, different paper, the skull is rough baohong, not sure about the others
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Anon10/16/25, 15:57No.7760694
haha I wonder what kind of art I will find toda-
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Anon10/16/25, 17:26No.7760789
Did a quick oil sketch in an hour and a half on a panel. Referencing a pencil sketch I did at a figure drawing place and trying to apply my mind's eye to fill it in with colour.
It's challenging to work like this but also fun as I cannot directly compare the painting to anything and have to judge appeal completely by my own taste.
Will probably wait a little and go over this again once it's dry to refine some shapes.
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Anon10/16/25, 19:15No.7760947
cow
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Anon10/16/25, 19:16No.7760949
and horse :D
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Anon10/16/25, 21:42No.7761116
There we go. That's a bit better.
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Anon10/17/25, 06:37No.7761693
I just started doing trad, I was wondering what are good tools to get? Not that interested in coloring yet, mostly looking for how to ink stuff, big black areas etc.
Should I get what mangakas use or is there a cheaper option?
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Anon10/17/25, 13:27No.7761952
Going to focus on perspective rather than other elements, I think perspective and form are bigger strengths than my other foundational stuff
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Anon10/18/25, 05:07No.7762963
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Anon10/18/25, 13:40No.7763307
Visited a local museum last week. Not a single artist name that i knew, a very ugly modern building it was located in. And a quarter of the exhibition was contemporary.
So my expectations were quite low, but boy o boy was it nice. There was so much old Christian art, local artists, local landscapes and so on. Some Dutch, no Italians a lot less realistic even the 16 and 17 century stuff. I couldnt really see the camera obscura artefacts, that are clearly visible in Italian art of the late Renaissance.
Very, very nice Gothic and Renaissance painted wooden sculptures.
There was no Rubens or Van Gogh like in Cologne but i think i liked this museum even more.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:59No.7763418
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Anon10/18/25, 16:01No.7763421
This one is so detailed irl, crazy. I really dont know, what kind of brushes they used for such fine but sharp lines.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:04No.7763427
A clock painting, such a whimsical thing to do, imagine postmodernists would call it kitsch.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:05No.7763430
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Anon10/18/25, 16:06No.7763434
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Anon10/18/25, 16:08No.7763439
You dont have to paint like Raphael, to hand in a museum, we all are gona make it, anons.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:09No.7763443
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Anon10/18/25, 16:13No.7763456
Landscape paintings looks so boring on photos, buy they are much more interesting irl, no idea why it is.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:14No.7763459
Some gore, painted very, very transparent.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:18No.7763466
Wooden statues
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Anon10/18/25, 16:20No.7763468
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Anon10/18/25, 16:21No.7763471
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Anon10/18/25, 16:24No.7763477
The museum is one large floor, you start with the middle ages and at the end there is the post war section that leads back to medieval art.
Postmodernism is just so boring. Its so stupid and dull, just a waste of wall.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:26No.7763480
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Anon10/18/25, 18:06No.7763612
Bros where is his camera obscura???Is Sweerts pranking us???
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Anon10/18/25, 19:17No.7763793
Holy shit what a retard.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:20No.7763800
Oh, somebody's feeling called out. Curious.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:26No.7763807
Oh wow, I don't know who this guy is, but he's really mad for some reason. Guess he read something that hit a bit close for comfort, huh?
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Anon10/18/25, 19:28No.7763810
true, true
he really is a retard and mad
must be the fumes
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Anon10/18/25, 20:16No.7763870
youtube.com/watch?v=DQwYj_9YBI8
skip to 46 minutes
example of a camera obscura recreated that was in common use at the time
however this is likely not what vermeer was using, but shows how artists have used optical tools that are now very uncommonthere are some artists making still lifes (my area of expertise) who i strongly suspect are using some kind of optical device.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:16No.7763871
I looked up the article about Rembrands self-portraits. Im not convinced at all, the evidance base is very thin on this one. I take the claim back.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:44No.7763915
Man, I am not sure what the purpose of this discussion is anymore.
Use tools if you want, or don't, many painters were perfectly capable without any devices like camera obscura.
If you can produce something amazing by tracing a photo, by all means do it.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:31No.7764483
did this today. Honestly hate it, but gotta keep at it. Tried pencils on bristol paper and its just not it. Too flat, doesnt absorb the pigments, no texture, no contrast etc. By the time I was rendering the stones in the foreground I gave up. I guess ots good for graphite tho
