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Anonymous01/08/26, 17:50No.7852417/trad/ - Traditional Art General -
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Anon01/08/26, 17:51No.7852420
Hogarth study
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Anon01/08/26, 17:55No.7852422
When I was a child, my grandmother's house was always full of women; I felt safe and protected there. This work is an idealized vision of that house. The characters are guided by the main figure, dressed in black and representing my grandmother. She leads her daughters and granddaughters through a Galician mountain devastated by the flames of a fire that will return to their lives repeatedly. Stoic as caryatids, they try to overcome adversity by remaining united.Magic is present through the girl on the left, who, through her right eye, possesses the ability to peer into the "other side." The character accompanying "my grandmother" is a recently wounded woman, still carrying the punishment for having made a bad decision, while the woman peeking out behind them both, silently judging and observing. The young woman in the background looks back to learn from her experiences and return to the same mistakes of the past. The two women on the right exchange rumors.Fire is an element that has several meanings in this painting: transformation, purification, punishment, and celebration. The absence of fingers on some of the hands symbolizes the loss of loved ones. The white dresses signify innocence and light, which will fade over time, giving way to mourning.
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Anon01/08/26, 17:57No.7852425
Some nature studies too. I love drawing trees
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Anon01/08/26, 18:27No.7852454
I don’t really paint much but I liked doing this
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Anon01/08/26, 19:30No.7852510
This painting reimagines the myth of Icarus not at the moment of flight or fall, but in its quiet aftermath. Washed ashore amid jagged rocks and restless gulls, the figure lies motionless—neither clearly dead nor alive. Inspired by Chantal Delsol’s Icarus Fallen, the work meditates on the fate of the modern individual in the absence of transcendent ideals. Here, Icarus becomes a symbol not of hubris, but of disorientation—stripped of certainty, cast down without clarity, and left in the silence after the descent.The painting invites reflection on what comes after collapse—when heroic narratives fail and we must navigate meaning from the ground up.
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Anon01/09/26, 08:36No.7853106
how to clean inside of ink bottle I cant see how far to dip
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Anon01/10/26, 00:48No.7853803
I have zero artistic talent, but through a mixture of my hatred to a group of people that ruined the only hobby I had and wanting to be better than them and my mother getting cancer, I want to change that.
This is my first oil painting that didn't turn out to be abysmal garbage through a mixture of trial and error and despite Tucson being an "art town" I haven't found any art class that isn't either A) an excuse for day drinking B) middle of the day university classes. Also I am not sure the canvas I am using is correct as the canvas sags significantly in the middle, but I am not sure if price wise I am at the point of being able to fork over big bucks for the "professional grade" ones.
I have an above average paying job and sure I could probably just buy her a drawing but I want to be by my mother side when I see her on the weekends. I am using just run of the mill Winsor oil paints and I tried going for a Bob Ross painting video which I fear the skill gap is too drastic IE how he uses the brushes / however in the hell he is able to make mountains with the paint knife.
Is there a better starting point than just jumping into Bob Ross videos? I know it is called the joy of painting but I am always on edge and it is hard for me to just keep saying "this looks nothing like what he did, but keep going and learn, it has to get better eventually". At the end of the day this is for my mother but also to hopefully helps me do things rather than just watch Youtube all day on my days off.
Thank you
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Anon01/10/26, 03:52No.7853926
crit
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Anon01/10/26, 10:49No.7854066
Hope you like my art
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Anon01/10/26, 15:50No.7854183
Guys…it’s finally finished
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Anon01/10/26, 18:33No.7854296
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Anon01/13/26, 21:12No.7857214
Lost your marbles? Make some!
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Anon01/13/26, 21:23No.7857226
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Anon01/14/26, 00:17No.7857370
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Anon01/15/26, 17:59No.7858777
>make portrait
>Know something is wrong but dont know what
>If Id see the mistake I wouldnt make it in the first place
So how to cover my own blind spots? Ask AI?
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Anon01/15/26, 18:55No.7858816
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Anon01/16/26, 03:30No.7859180
About to finish my underpainting for a Rembrandt study
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Anon01/18/26, 11:35No.7861302
How fond are you of you rmedium of choice? Did you just fall into it or is there something that draws you to it in particular.
I like pastels because they're easy-peasy and light on equipment. They have their flaws which has me glancing elsewhere and it has been interesting seeing all diehards out there for other mediums.
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Anon01/19/26, 06:14No.7861961
poorfag here
just ordered black velvet #6 round brush
is it too big for a watercolor beginner who wants to save as much paper as possible?
I don't draw landscape yet I just draw a few small apples and other objects to fill up the whole paper
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Anon01/19/26, 17:38No.7862213
I am not a baby anymore.. i am not so innocent anymore.. whyim in love now?! I dunno?? How can i live forever i donr know where cna i fisn ehaven? I dornnknownwhu imin love nowHb o eunkoB
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Anon01/21/26, 15:40No.7863786
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Anon01/22/26, 06:16No.7864461
Third ever portrait. First time using charcoal. been doing drawing on the right side of the brain. Feedback is appreciated :)
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Anon01/22/26, 11:21No.7864576
Remnants of An Army (1879) by Elizabeth ButlerDepicts a soldier from the british Bengal Army returning from the great 'retreat from Kabul' in Afghanistan 1842. One of the few survivors. Most soldiers died from exposure and starvation.
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Anon01/23/26, 14:28No.7865523
>Nowadays when purple finds its way even on to party-walls and when India contributes the mud of her rivers and the gore of her snakes and elephants, there is no such thing as high-class painting. Everything in fact was superior in the days when resources were scantier. The reason for this is that, as we said before, it is values of material and not of genius that people are now on the lookout for.
>One folly of our generation also in the matter of painting I will not leave out. The Emperor Nero had ordered his portrait to be painted on a colossal scale, on linen 120 ft. high, a thing unknown hitherto; this picture when finished, in the Gardens of Maius, was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire, together with the best part of the Gardens. [52] When a freedman of Nero was giving at Antium a gladiatorial show, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants. This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many generations now; but it was Gaius Terentius Lucanus who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of gladiators in the forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of their matches in the Grove of Diana.
the west has fallen
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Anon01/23/26, 14:53No.7865533
Meow
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Anon01/25/26, 16:36No.7867089
I'm losing my mind, is daylight cool or warm? Yesterday I've spent hours looking into this and literally everything came back as sunlight being cool outside of dawn and dusk or very extreme latitudes, today I open up a random video and see this shit as an example of daylight lighting.
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Anon01/25/26, 19:00No.7867197
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Anon01/25/26, 21:08No.7867276
imagine getting this butthurt over "nigga"
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Anon01/26/26, 14:51No.7867829
hey guys do you mind
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Anon01/28/26, 21:42No.7869513
That's Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1p6m44wUs