#art theory is for tools!

[shepscapades]

YOU.

UMMMMMM

#SRIBAFOGBSMFGB #THE WAY I KINDA DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE BUT THATS REALLY FUNNY #you KNOW #that when I was drawing edamame I was like #‘okay what can I put in doc’s hand’ #uhhhhh (< the only tool she looked up was something sharp enough for destruction and it’s a micro electronics tool anyway so that’ll do!) #(it’s a circuit board micro inscriber) #BUT ITS HILARIOUS IT LOOKS LIKE I WAS FORESHADOWING #tooootally on purpose guys. 100% #ask #dbhc ask #destruction #dbhc doc #dragonheart2497 #literally so funny #art escapades #dbhc theories

[maridoodles]

brush theory doodle

my brush settings + how i use them under the cut

I use paint tool SAI

PEN BRUSH • LINER + FLAT COLORS

this is the basic pen that comes with SAI. I use it for sketching, lining, and throwing down colors. It's very lightweight to use, and responds great to pressure. i like how soft it looks but it's still solid for selecting areas and paint bucket filling when coloring later on

MARKER BRUSH • BLENDING COLORS

this is the marker tool, i have it set to a fine flat tip to use like a copic chisel tip end. It's semi transparent so it works just like a marker, more pressure will give more color. It's great to add a wash of shading in a picture when using on a separate layer. When coloring on one layer, it'll pick up colors and blend them like when painting with oil paints.

here is an example of using it to lay down shadows in this wip, but it leaves a lot of harsh edges that i'll blend out with a watercolor brush.

SUGOI BRUSH • LINER

this brush i got from an artist that's no longer on tumblr... i do not use this to color because it pulls colors really weird when painting on one layer. But it's great if you want very straight lines. I use this when i want thicker consistent lines like my merch art

it also layers very fun because it's semi transparent. I use it when I want very soft casual lines like in this illustration, see how the lines blur into the colors on the layer underneath?

CRAYON BRUSH • TEXTURE this is my favorite brush. it mimics a rough 2B pencil, it has a beautiful texture. However, it has so much texture that unless you have very thick lines it'll leave pixel gaps so you cannot use the paint bucket fill/select tool making it not great for lining.

I use it to add blush lines and shade hair like Serafina's from my Ghoulfriends comic. Use it on a seperate layer for the sharpest results

i saw this brush theory trend on instagram and wanted to join because i love talking about all i put into my art

bye

#brush theory #i ramble for 10 years under the cut sorry #tutorial #tutorials #brushes #paint tool sai brushes #my art #original

[tdutb]

new episode!!!!

#my art #ms paint #inanimate insanity #ii fanart #inanimate insanity fanart #ii nickel ii balloon #yeah i fucked around with the pencil tool again #and colour theory #tho that one ended up going quite shit

[annaxmalina]

{2022} 01 thwarted desire

"This artificial body may be called the 'medium' (and not just 'material') in the sense that images needed embodiment in order to acquire visibility. To this end, a 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 is exchanged for the 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 of the image.” (p. 3) » An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body {2001/2012, Hans Belting}

#gif #animation #anna malina #dall-e #black and white #digital collage #ai art #marching ants #formaldehyde #2022 #quotes #hans belting #portraits #media theory #reading #gimp #gimp selection tool

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

Keep in mind the limitations of web colors, and monitor/display differences, but this is a fantastic tool

There is a smaller lighter version here

#Munsell Color wheel #color theory #art #artists #ref #reference tool #color wheel #color wheels #color reference

[nhaneh]

funny thing is I don't really have any interest in hoarding knowledge or resources for myself in any way, I'm just bad at publishing stuff because I feel like that'd require a bit more stringent quality control than what I might expect of something made largely for my own use.

sometimes I think maybe I should set up something like a google drive or a git or something to just throw my personal- and work-in-progress stuff for people who are interested, but I dunno what limits for space or bandwidth or anything are like.

like I'm sure some people would possibly find the ColorSet unpacker python script useful?? It kinda sucks through and I want to make a better version of it and maybe one that could work as a standalone executable instead? and possibly a packer counterpart to the unpacker?? But also I keep thinking like "would this even be useful to anyone lmao??"

in theory you could probably make some kind of art program plugin that does all of this for you - even the bit with loading actual colorset information into layered colorset pairs, but I mean that's a lot of effort and I still largely use a 20+ year old version of Paint Shop Pro myself so...

#honestly the thing is i think more people should be able to do what i do #whether that is posing or model editing or whatever #keeping the knowledge exclusive only aid those who seek profit #while making it public empowers us all to create #imo that's what real democratisation of art is #giving everyone access to the tools and the knowledge involved #and hoping that if they come up with some new ideas or techniques #they too will give it back to the community for everyone's benefit #there's that expression about standing on the shoulders of giants #but look the great man theory of history is kinda bullshit #we're not standing on the shoulders of giants #we're standing on the shoulders of all of humanity #both those past and present #this is why i love openly collaborative environments #like open source or a lot of modding scenes or the like #sure you still get clashing egos and drama and whatever #but there's this idea that if we openly share our work then we all benefit #it's a rejection of the singular great man #the one visionary auteur #and instead embracing our community-driven nature #look this is something of an ideological thing for me ok #i suck at sharing stuff not because i think sharing is bad #but because i think the things i do aren't good enough #i know that's a silly thing to feel #but i still feel it #emotions care little for reason

[strike-another-match]

man not EA lying off 5% of their global staff 😵 one of the very few game companies operating in spain with good working conditions according to word of mouth 💀 i was hoping to apply...

#every day im more convinced my current job is gonna be my first and last gamedev job 😭😭 #art tool development here i come ?! #working for blender or for the people developing graphics libraries like three.js is my dream tbh #i can always make my own games in my free time #gamedev is my dream in theory but in practise i would like to work on very few specific studios so the chances are extremely slim #and even then i just dont think my health can take the crunchy nature of the craft

[ev1lmorty]

weird weekend

#set up my sketchbook n tools etc to do some trad sketches bc it usually helps me feel better but im grr #i keep just opening pocket mortys n then getting annoyed bc nobody will battle me n the ones that do keep #oneshotting me or if i manage to kill one of their mortys just poofing #which is making my mood Worse zzz #kindve wanna doodle the last outfit reqs but i think i just wanna draw soft rnm stuff rn #> all my sfw wips are like dead srs edgy comics n i cant keep drawing edgy rnm art #anyways im rewatching it once again im on s3e1 again #i keep trying to watch other stuff but i cant focus + its keeping me sane #gotta speedrun a bunch of he tomorrow i got uhh #first pass of a 5 sec animation n a 3 page essay on the theory of magick #this is the easiest semester possible but i am for real going insane rn lol #bday officially in 4 weeks now #pisces season incoming babyyy

[emi-nya]

Ohohohoho look who it is

#bnha dabi #dabi todoroki #touya todoroki #fan art #artist #art #emi-nya #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital drawing #paint tool sai #boku no hero academia fanart #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #dabi #league of villains #crusty nugget man #i will love him to the day i die and noone can do anything about it #also anime watchers how does it feel knowing the obvious #i remember when this was a theory man

[do-you-have-a-flag]

there is a lot to say about the ethical problems and blandness of AI art but also just as someone who likes digital art because it’s low maintenance low cost to pursue, i think that it’s INCREDIBLY BORING to look at ai art because the creative process is lost

like people might gripe that digital art isn’t “real” art because of the difference in craft 

but ultimately i think each individual artist shapes their workflow to suit their needs and some people are able to do a lot of design work using presets and filters and photo-bashing and generative tools in ways that are creative and using a process that takes thought and problem solving

and personally i like the process of high effort art in traditional mediums and that reflects in my digital drawings, i love painting to render texture and light to an image for example, while i do use brushes and other tools overall i think the actual act is soothing and fun

and i think the creative collaboration when working with someone else’s prompts (a process that can be immensely frustrating when one-sided) is also a valuable experience as people can ask questions and negotiate concepts you might not have thought of on your own. the immediacy of output with ai, the way it flattens composition to the most common plagiarised components, it’s fun as a what if or a starting  point but it is a creatively incomplete endeavour specifically because the ai is communicating nothing and the person creating the prompt is almost entirely removed from the creative process. one sided intentionality without the meat of creation

ALSO for contrast i was thinking about the tradition of fractal art/fractal flames dating back to the 80s but more specifically being boosted in popularity alongside the world wide web thanks to one person’s algorithm in 1992. that guy now works in AI generation but back in the 90s he created an open source code that took mathematical iteration and translated it into graphics in common software applications that anyone could use. as a result i saw so many cool abstract almost mandala-like spacey images in the 2000s on deviantart and people are still making them today. it’s an artform that can only be successfully executed thanks to computers, it i complex in the process of execution but thanks to computers the process of creation is quick and seperate from human effort, the output is also very nice to look at. 

Why do i like this form of generative computer art and not so called a.i?  Because the algorithm for fractal art is pure mathematics translated into imagery, while generative a.i/neural networks datasets inherently require an input of other people’s work. a process that requires ethical consideration in ways that mathematical inputs do not. both use data to create images but what do they feed on? how are they applied? does their implementation say anything about their process or output? 

because as far as i see it, technology is neutral and usage is where the good and bad emerge, the process of generative images is a marvel of technology and how we as people love to create. but the way that these tools synthesise what they are given is a process so seperate from the people inputing prompts i really feel like it’s people losing the most fun parts of art (emotion, communication, and participation) and receiving the worst results of commodification of art (plagiarism, formulaic content, aesthetic cowardice, narrow perspectives, exploitation)

#long post #repeating things i've said before #but i really do think a lot of people who simp for ai art #and act like this situation is people being bitter they aren't as efficient as a machine #are philosophical cowards #and i mean that sincerely i think it is a type of thinking that is so embarrassing #also once again why are ai held to a different standard than actual creative professionals #when it comes to copywrite and licensing and plagiarism? #that's a rhetorical question the answer is corporations do not care about you and they will replace paid work with free garbage every time #i don't think everyone who develops ai tools are evil i think it is a fascinating process #but i kept this post mostly to my PERSONAL theories around art and creativity rather than ethics #cause otherwise i would just end up ranting about the irresponsibility and lack of moderation/oversite in the tech world as a whole #and others are more qualified and informed on that topic than i #but everyone is qualified to talk about what they think about art so i can make this post lmao #sorry for rambling in the tags too i love to never shut up

[baronfulmen]

Let's set aside the discussion about AI projects building data sets off of people's stuff without permission. Just for a minute.

Guys.

I don't know how anything is going to work five years from now, and that kinda terrifies me. Maybe it's because I'm getting old and change is hard, but I don't think so - or at least it's MOSTLY not that.

Now that these AI programs have proven to be so useful, a lot of development time is being put into them. This means they'll progress even faster, until we run into certain limitations of scale and processing power and whatever. I don't know what those are, or which barriers are hard vs soft ones.

What jobs are going to be either eliminated or drastically changed? I don't know! What jobs are going to be created? WAY less than are eliminated, but I don't know! What will this do to the internet? To news? To art? To publishing? To politics? To a million different little things that we interact with every single day? I've got no idea!

I cannot, at all, predict this. I don't think anyone can, because when people spout off predictions it's about some narrow area they're familiar with and guys I cannot stress this enough: AI like this is going to (eventually) change SO MANY THINGS that you can't make accurate predictions by looking at only one area.

Will we be unable to tell reality from fiction when we see "news" on the internet, or will more robust fact-checking services emerge to meet the demand and potentially even lead to better awareness of propaganda and misinformation in the long term?

Will so much labor getting replaced by AI lead to us finally implementing Universal Basic Income in order to keep society functioning, or will capitalism (continue to) rush to eat its own tail?

Will new tools that let people make simple games and movies and whatever easily mean a vibrant generation of unique and strange offerings from people that previously couldn't bring their ideas to life, or just spam everyone with zero-effort garbage while driving people away from actually learning how to do that sort of shit for real?

When the first major company lays off a huge amount of people so they can farm out all but the most difficult customer service issues to AI, will it go well enough to make everyone else follow suit or will the AI have some random apeshit moment that makes the whole company look bad (please please please)?

Speaking of, how will different people in different contexts deal with the inherent unreliability of AI language models? Pretend it doesn't matter? Put a bunch of disclaimers up? Have humans double check everything? Probably the disclaimers one for most, but remember this is going to impact WAY more areas than we're talking about right now.

How will all of these things interact with each other, build on each other, counteract each other? Nobody knows yet, and if they say they do they're either lying or stupid. This AI stuff is deeply disruptive to so many areas it's mind-boggling. And the thing is, it's happening one way or another. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

#ai #chatgpt #ai generated art #to be clear in a perfect world this would all be fine #in some utopian society it wouldn't be a big deal #it is our capitalist hellscape that makes this scary #I do not trust the judgement of corporations because I'm not an idiot #or at least not that KIND of idiot #and I genuinely like ai stuff in theory #some of these tools are so so so cool #i would love to be able to just be excited about them

[quiltedlovers]

doing a long con bit where i work common north american fish into all of my course work for all of my classes this semester (foundation year of a visual arts program). curious about whether the profs will notice at all/if they’ll comment on it. so far (two weeks into the semester) ive submitted a critical analysis of a painting of a trout in a local gallery and this sketchbook exercise.

#we’re about to depart the introduction stage of the semester and get into the use your tools to make what you want part #and baby im going to make some fish #i enjoy in theory that piece of art advice that if you want to master something you need to do it every single day #but i don’t have time most days to do anything but go to work go to school and do my schoolwork #so i will simply turn school into the opportunity to become a master at depicting fish #how will this goal benefit my life and any potential future visual arts practise you ask #who can say #certainly not me #but i will have a new skill at the end of this #and maybe that’s what life is all about

[suspiciouscriossantaaa]

Was looking around for a detailed guide on how to make colorful text thats readable on a white background and found this guide thats really good?????

It not only shows you what works and what doesn’t but also goes into details as to why. Which is extremely important for me since my mind just Doesn’t Understand A Concept until you explain why it has to be that way in the first place.

It also gives you the color codes!!!! U can read through all the details or skip straight to the chart and I love it!!!

Here’s the page!!!:

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2007/01/applying-color-theory-to-digital-displays.php#:~:text=The%20contrast%20between%20charcoal%20gray,text%20on%20a%20white%20background

#henry.txt #reblogs extremely encouraged #i use a lot of screen darkening settings bc my eyes get like that sometimes #and I absolutely can NOT read some of the stuff i see . #it also helps me understand what kind of text to use myself and on what #god i adore this #art resources #important post #useful post #resources #color theory #also i am aware this artical is supposed to be about website design and that jazz #however i am absolutely using this for art and blogging purposes #website design #graohicdesign #graphic design #design resources #ALSO IM NOT SPONSORED IM JUST REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THIS SHAGWYWGWG #god i wish articles about graphic design and or accessibility tools would sponor me<3

[schalotte]

oh BTW my cursed seminar instructor did not reply to my email abt presentation topics and instead sent out a mail to all of us saying he doesn't have time to reply to individual emails and we need to go see him during office hours 🙄🙄 now i need to wait until next friday to do that so i think i will choose one of the two topics i had in mind and get started on research and then just clarify the thesis with him.

#ughhhhhhhhh whatever!!!!! not even sure what he wants out of these presentations if i'm being quite frank just bc #it's not like we're learning or applying any specific tools of analysis or getting into theory at all in class #we're just reading abt different youth/protest movements and then like loosely talking abt the texts....... #ahhhh idk . i just don't know . but it will be Fine i think i'm gonna go for AIDS protest & memorial art #my other idea was like. online leftist infighting cancel culture etcetc but honestly i'm fatigued just thinking abt it so #elli.txt

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

OOOOooooOOO even better Munsell color tool!

And colorizer which is fantastic for picking and converting colors.

h/t once again to Peter Donahue

#Color tools #Color #art #color science #color theory #reference

[sky-fishhhh]

A little brush theory reel since my next oc drawing is taking a while to draw. The first three brushes (sketch & lineart) are the ones I used the most in my drawings and I'm testing out the rest.

Brushes under the cut if you want don’t want to pause the video!

#brushes #brush theory #paint tool sai brushes #my art #lineart #sketch brush #lineart brush #digital art #original character #oc art #pokemon au #pokemon squirtle #squirtle #pokemon #rbg ren #original character ren #my lineart brush also doubles as colouring #paint tool sai